So finally it came. The I&B Minister moved forward, then backward and then, forward again. The Minister announced that any journalist found involved in propagating ‘fake’ news would lose his government accreditation. The Prime Minister’s Office moved in promptly and the order was struck do...
Public broadcasting in India has never been free. Whichever party has been in power – left, right or centre – it has wanted Akashvani or Doordarshan to serve its propaganda purposes. People who work in these organisations call themselves ‘media’ persons; but in reality, they are government s...
Many years ago, when Raja Ramanna was the Chairman of the Atomic Commission, he came to the Ramakrishna Mission in Kolkata to deliver an inaugural lecture of a religious convention. He questioned the ‘big bang’ theory and said he would love to believe that the world was created out of ‘somethi...
Preparing for the coverage of the budget, both at the state and the central level, has always been a big occasion for any business newspaper or television channel. It’s an annual ritual, for which all media outfits undertake long planning processes.Changes in technologies have made the process of ...
The Prime Minister, before his departure to Davos to speak at the World Economic Forum, gave a remarkable interview to a television channel – perhaps one of his best so far. He spoke about India becoming a ‘bright star’ in the global economic scene; he criticised the Congress (asking it to ref...
Thousands of students are passing out every year from management institutes and it is deplorable that more than half of them are unable to find employment. The last few years have been rough for B-school graduates. Dr. Amitava Mukherjee, Principal, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, spoke to BE’s A...
Can India have a media, which is distinctly its own? By definition, media connects people with the country and the country with the rest of the world. Indian media cannot cut itself off from the rest of the world for if it does, it will be failing in its duty of keeping the people fully informed. Bu...
The Indian media often refers to the 21-month ‘emergency’ (1975-77) to demonstrate the consequences of a government clamp down. The heroic fight back of some of the media houses is shown as having brought ‘freedom’. Four decades have passed; the society has changed and so has its media. But ...
The Dalal Street hosted by La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, has provided an opportunity to students to employ their theoretical knowledge of business and economics to real world situations. Continuing for three consecutive years, the event is an initiative undertaken by the commerce department of th...
In recent years, it is not just the Indian School Certificate (ISC) and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that have gained momentum in India but several other international boards like Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).In the last few years, Indian students have been very succ...