Adarsh -- a multi-million dollar residential tower in Mumbai's most expensive seafront real estate -- has just been served with demolition orders. The tower occupies land that the defense department had reserved for war veterans. Apparently the coterie of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and defense officials who grabbed that land felt...

Just when you thought you'd seen it all, more dirt surfaces. Dirt that's quite old actually -- about how the news corporation swallowed the free press -- common knowledge for years, front page news material, but just not reported much, because it was about newsmakers.

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It's been a month since the first set of Radia tapes was published by Open and Outlook. All through, these two exemplary publications have maintained their focus on the twin issues of corruption and media complicity that emerged from the tape content. Meanwhile, the rest of...

After remaining wilfully silent on India's biggest corruption story of the year (Hear the Radia tapes here), the immediate reaction of some sections of the Indian media was to divert attention to Brand India and corporate privacy concerns. We are now witness to another...

Soon after the Radia tape leaks exposed the cozy relationship between the media and big business houses in India, the very publications that had turned away from this year's biggest story of corruption chose to publish a series of reports highlighting the anxieties and concerns of corporate India.

Just as America faces the aftermath of Wikileaks, halfway across the globe, in a slightly altered scenario, another of the world's largest democracies is reeling under the onslaught of its biggest, most shocking series of revelations of classified government information ever.

Last month in India, an unknown person leaked...

There is a new reason to feel vindicated, and hopeful, about India.

Last month the Indian state of Bihar - situated to the north of the country with a population of 83 million people (more than a quarter of the United States population) - re-elected a successful political alliance...

Last week in a daring move calculated to capture the world's attention, terrorists targeted a Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Eight Pakistanis died while six Sri Lankans and one British national were injured. A few months ago, in another horrific move also designed for...

Even as the terror strikes were occurring in Mumbai last week, a tragedy that was to leave nearly two hundred persons dead, an unknown entity called the Deccan Mujahideen had immediately claimed responsibility. Earlier that year India was witness to several other terror strikes in the provinces of Uttar Pradesh,...

The lone captured terrorist involved in the Mumbai terror strike last week has begun singing, his police custody a matter of outstanding bad luck for the terror masterminds. Kasab was never meant to be captured alive. His custody is the ironic outcome of a single police officer trading his life...