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Journalism in the time of Coronavirus

Coronavirus is the biggest story of our lives and a billion plus people expect us to be around, watching, reporting, editing, recording this for posterity and blowing the whistle to draw attention......

'Yeh BBC Hai'. You won't hear these words from Feb 1

For 80 years, news and views aired on BBC Hindi reached audiences in the remotest parts of the country. For millions of its followers, the signature line –‘yeh BBC hai (this is......

When will this climate of hate end?

'The sentiment against immigrants and particularly against Muslims is produced by the climate of hatred and bigotry we see all around us.''It is produced by the politics of division and spread by a......

Mark Tully: Meeting PMs, dictators, militants

'Of all the PMs of India, I had the closest relationships with Morarji and Rajiv.'Mark Tully, the most famous foreign correspondent in India, remembers some encounters with prime ministers,......

'In Indian politics you have to find a place for Hindus'

Mark Tully on the India he loves.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listens in.Photographs and videos: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Seven words have always lived in the back of my head, never to be......

BBC Asian Network closure was inevitable: Scribes

Senior Britain-based Indian journalists who worked for the BBC believe that given the multi-choice media environment, diversity of languages within the Asian community and stiff competition from......

Why WorldSpace scores over others

Video killed the radio star. Back in the 1980s, this song by a British group hit the charts as a fitting tribute to the golden days of radio, which had been cut short by the television and video......

Why Go FM became Radio One

Listen to the radio, and you will hear the songs you know. For sales executive Rohit Shetty, this 2005 Robbie Williams song conjures up an all-too familiar image of FM radio in India."All the......

Podcasts finally come of age

At a Seattle conference on podcasts recently, the new wave of audio content producers on the web were greeted with postcards that said: "Podcasters! Are you here to join the revolution - or the......

Satellite radios sing Indian tune

Foreign holding in satellite radio companies may be capped to bring uniformity in foreign equity limit across various media sectors. The government is evaluating a proposal regarding this.At......

'When He Spoke, The Whole Nation Listened'

'Ameen Sayani was copied by generations. Now everyone is trying to become smaller Ameen Sayanis in their own way.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In 1960, when the film Dil Apna Aur......

'I travel the world with a piece of bamboo'

'I will always cherish the fact that I received the first big award of my life, actually two, in the company of legends for an incredible collaboration.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia......

'The trick is to look forward with excitement, then you're alive all the time'

Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand, who would have turned 99 today, September 26. IMAGE: Dev Anand. This feature was first posted on Rediff.com on April 4,......

He enriched the world with his magical voice

His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions.Siva Sankar pays a tribute to S P......

Saeed Jaffrey: The Great Entertainer

'Sent off to interview him in the late 1970s I met him in a cafe in New Delhi's Regal Building called The Parlour. With impromptu send-ups of Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and the rich,......

Bishan Singh Bedi: The Sardar of Spin who conquered hearts

IMAGE: Bishan Singh Bedi with Ravichandran Ashwin and Erapalli Prasanna during the BCCI Annual Awards in Bengaluru on March 8, 2017. Photograph: BCCI He could mess with a batter's mind with his......

This visually impaired fan loves cricket from stadium

IMAGE: (Picture for representational purpose only) Indian fans show their support during the first Test match between New Zealand and India at Basin Reserve. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images......

Football Briefs: Italian club AS Roma to auction shirts for Kerala flood relief

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: AS Roma players celebrate a goal (Image used for representational purposes). Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters In......

'God of Commentary' prepares to say goodbye

Henry Blofeld, who charmed the cricket world for more than 40 years, bids farewell to the microphone come September.Haresh Pandya salutes the Master. IMAGE: Henry Blofeld always livened up......

Did Harsha Bhogle pay the price for VCA spat?

'This little incident might seem trivial to most people. But when such things happen in the BCCI's own backyard...'Dhruv Munjal reports. IMAGE: Harsha Bhogle with Ajay Jadeja and Deepika Padukone......

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