Can you Charge for Content…
March 23, 2014… yes if you have content worth charging for. And, this brings me to a conversation i had a decade ago, while a channel was in the process of being launched. The channel was meant to be free to air and was…
DNA Column : Elections – The age of convenient truth
March 20, 2014My column in today’s DNA It is election season and, therefore, it must be the time for rhetoric, more rhetoric and even more rhetoric. Each party and its supporters are trying to pitch themselves to us, the voters, and each trying to…
Teerth Vitthala – Anand Bhate
March 18, 2014Anand Bhate is a disciple of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. And a fabulous singer in his own right. I first heard him sing for the film Bal Gandharva, where he was outstanding. I have been trying to scour the shops and the interwebs…
Hampi – An unwritten post …
March 9, 2014this is where i was, over the new year. And I still haven’t found the time to upload all the pics or even write about it. I make excuses, do people want to read one more bad Hampi post (possibly not)… 🙂…
DNA Column – An A to Z of UPA 2
March 9, 2014And, my column last week for the DNA – on the UPA retrospective Ever been to a theatre to watch a film that on paper sounded fabulous — great director, good casting, top-of-the-line banner, great promos? But when you get inside the…
In Conversation – on Organisations, Innovation & Investment
March 9, 2014There are only two kinds of interviews that i had conducted in the past – the first was job interviews and the second were interviews in camera, for shows. So when i got asked if I would like to interview Rahul Sood,…
DNA Column : A Billion Plus Ideas of Idea
February 12, 2014My column in @DNA last week My earliest memories are of growing up in Delhi, and going to school there. Amongst those memories was a line that a six-year-old had seared into her subconscious — tu kaali hai (you are dark). It…
DNA column – Democracy in the Age of the Internet
February 12, 2014My column in the DNA on January 31st “The Medium is the Message” declared Marshall McLuhan, a phrase that has become the most misinterpreted phrase in the short history of mass media. What McLuhan talked about was far deeper than mistaking your…
DNA Column – AAP’s politics by other means
February 12, 2014My column in DNA on 23rd January On Tuesday evening, the Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, ended one more high-pitched protest. At the end of it, two police officers were sent on leave, pending judicial investigation. The seeds of the drama…
DNA Column – Freedom from Fear
February 12, 2014My column in the DNA on 9th January 2014 I joined the media in the mid-Nineties. The television industry was new, budgets were low and we all did everything — we wrote, directed, edited, ran about to find costumes, painted sets on…