One Two ka Four: From Inception to Conception, Knowledge Factory has been a lot like Motherhood
There must be a reason why thinking and motherhood have a word in common. To “conceive” is to...
December 18,2019 READ MORE
Madhavan Narayanan
Documentaries are a vital link between journalism and art: We need better ways to make, discover and watch them
As India was shaken last week by the horrible rape and murder of a vet in Hyderabad and...
December 11,2019 READ MORE
Brand Bajaj shows how respect is earned by a mix of character and work
It is most interesting that within a week after discussing how some brands make news but how sometimes news...
December 04,2019 READ MORE
Sometimes, a brand makes news. Sometimes, news builds a brand. Here’s how.
As a long-time business journalist, I have often matched wits with public relations folks, who are friendly but...
November 27,2019 READ MORE
NDTV dodders as a news company but the brand still has a Rolex-like allure
There was a time when India’s favourite questions were either “After Nehru, who?” or “After Indira, what?”. People...
November 20,2019 READ MORE
Research and repackaging make a big difference in digital-age journalism. Here’s why and how
Last month, I stumbled on two pieces of journalism that taught me how to, and how not to,...
November 13,2019 READ MORE
Stories are more important than the beats: What Delhi pollution coverage tells us about newsroom bureaucracies
I am writing this in Delhi, where the topic in the air is, well, air. The choking of...
November 06,2019 READ MORE
The Telegraph oscillates between courage and outrage, but it certainly is ‘newsatainment’
You don’t have to necessarily have pretty ladies or the bounty of nature as a muse. For a...
October 23,2019 READ MORE
The Veshti Revolution: How a rural Tamil Nadu brand gained from the Modi-Xi summit
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore a traditional Tamilian wraparound “Veshti” (waist-wrap dhoti) for his informal summit with Chinese...
October 16,2019 READ MORE
The Stenographer Trap: Is inadequate business journalism contributing to India’s economic slowdown?
“If the Indian economy is really in the throes of a severe slowdown,” I asked myself, “how come...
October 09,2019 READ MORE
Why Trust needs Truth — and why employees are the new brand ambassadors
One word that was oozing out of most of the sessions at PRAXIS8 public relations conclave last weekend...
October 03,2019 READ MORE
Rude journalists and smug PR folks need to look within. Here’s why…
As a journalist, I have known my tribe to have two different extremes. The first one pretends public...
September 25,2019 READ MORE