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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Sidharth Bhatia
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Sidharth Bhatia has been a journalist for over three decades in the print and electronic media. Starting as a reporter in Bombay during the national emergency, he moved to covering state-level and national politics.

Bhatia was editor of the Bombay edition of The Observer of Business and Politics and then a foreign correspondent in South Africa during the democratic transition in 1993-94. He became chief executive officer of a media company in Mauritius before returning to Bombay in 2005 to join the team that founded Daily News and Analysis.

Bhatia continues to be on the editorial board of DNA and manages the Opinion pages and the Sunday edition, writing a regular signed column and also the leader comments of the paper.

In 2001, Bhatia was made Associate Press Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a regular on several television shows as a commentator on social and political affairs.

Bhatia has taught at several media institutes, including at the well-known social communications media course at Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai.

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October 7, 2007

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The nation is upset all the time

The most overused phrase in recent times must surely be “It has hurt the sentiments of…” I have deliberately not finished that sentence.
September 22, 2007

The new middle-class love affair

It is one of the popular givens of Indian politics that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the support of the Indian middle class.
September 9, 2007

Sholay redux for Gen multiplex

Every now and then, the media gets an outbreak of what can be called 'Sholay fever.' That is when Sholay gets back in the news and is discussed.
September 2, 2007

How not to spot a Naxalite

News stories about the arrest of two suspected 'Naxalites' a few days ago pointedly mentioned that the accused were from 'prestigious South Mumbai colleges'.
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Scenes from a sham marriage

The government does not really need the CPM beyond a point in Parliament for the immediate future. Manmohan Singh can continue running a minority government.
August 19, 2007

Saving our kids, but from what

When satellite television came to India, the Doordarshan-weary middle-classes welcomed it into the drawing rooms and hearts almost instantly.
August 12, 2007

Free, but still some way to go

Today, at a time when we turn 60 as an independent nation, it is a good time to look at the journey so far and the road ahead.
August 6, 2007

From Naya Daur to Nandigram

Capitalists are always shown as venal and villainous in Hindi films, but frankly, what was Jeevan’s crime? That he wanted to invest in the best technology?
August 5, 2007

The dilemma of departure

Why do they leave behind their homes, jobs, friends and family and all associations to go to a new country to start a new, disconnected life?
July 28, 2007
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