AUGUST 2016

The shockingly uncultured Union Minister of Culture, Mahesh Sharma, has had what some in the media call a brainwave. To the rest of us, though, it sounds more like a short circuit of that walnut-sized organ in his skull that is an apology for a human brain. He has decided to grade artistes and writers into three categories: Outstanding, Promising and Waiting. The Outstanding and Promising lot will officially represent India at events, while the Waiting will wait for a change in government, I assume. I am pretty certain there’s a secret fourth category titled ‘Ignoring’.

One of the major sites of collateral damage in the unending war on terror has been the media landscape.

Nagma Parveen, a Lucknow student, first saw the acronym RTI mentioned in a newspaper. She did not know what it meant.

Despite the fact that India is sending its biggest ever Olympic contingent to the Rio Olympics, the truth is that India’s chances remain bleak
Sandeep Kumar Delhi

In an interview with Hardnews, Sanjeev Bikhchandani of Naukri.com talks about the startup ecosystem in India. He also offers some interesting insights and prospects of the digital industry
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

A pretentious and muddled story about rebels without a pause or a cause. There is not much weed here either
Sonali Ghosh Sen Delhi

Hardnews Bureau Lucknow

Saeed Naqvi has taken on many world leaders in his long and successful journalistic career, but in his new book, he targets something far bigger: the betrayal that is the Indian state
Dhruba Basu Delhi

Zubin Ray, founder of Chacar, writes about the digital startup environment