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Obscene ad on Faking News – the obscene truth (NSFW) 19 Mar 2013 | 07:11 pm
Saw an obscene, rather pornographic, banner ad on Faking News website? There is more than what meets your eyes. Continue reading →
Here comes Dhoble, on Twitter 25 Aug 2012 | 09:34 pm
No, Mumbai’s ACP Vasant Dhoble has not joined Twitter. Nor has he requested the government to block many parody accounts running in his name. But we have a virtual Dhoble running with hockey stick and...
Why journalists hate trolls 11 Jun 2012 | 01:59 pm
At the outset, let me make it clear that I’m making a distinction between what is being labeled as “trolling” and criminal online behavior such as cyber-bullying and hate-mongering. However, this dist...
Radia, Barkha, Peepli Live 20 Nov 2010 | 06:14 am
The Niira Radia tapes have been making news, even as the electronic media has chosen to ignore them, especially the ones that feature two leading television journalists – Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi. ...
Truth hurts (follow up to the Open Letter to Arundhati Roy) 28 Oct 2010 | 03:20 pm
Not even a fake news article had attracted so much of traffic and reaction in a single day as my open letter to Arundhati Roy did (I’m not patting my back but mere stating a fact that might be insigni...
An open letter to Arundhati Roy 27 Oct 2010 | 10:53 pm
Hey woman, Congrats, you are back in news! You were trending on Twitter and featured in Google trends. And thanks, you made many guys look up dictionary.com to understand what sedition meant. You are...
Congratulations Nitish Kumar, you may lose the elections! 19 Oct 2010 | 07:23 am
A couple of months back I was in Bihar, my home state, and the state was gearing up for elections. It was a completely personal tour to spend some time with my parents and family and I hardly interact...
The divine encroacher, the loser, the male chauvinist 26 Sep 2010 | 08:00 pm
This Thursday, CNN-IBN anchor and senior journalist Sagarika Ghose termed Lord Rama as “divine encroacher” in one of her tweets, which she later deleted as it caused considerable outrage among the twi...
Should you draw Muhammad for sake of free speech? 9 Jul 2010 | 09:57 pm
For so many weeks I had been thinking of writing on a number of issues, but my laziness (primarily) and preoccupation with writing Faking News articles stopped me from writing another article since I ...
Let’s talk about Sex, SRK and Sena 15 Feb 2010 | 02:47 am
Cricket, Politics and Movies have been the biggest newsmakers in our country. Every Indian is an expert of at least one of these topics, and the enjoyment that he or she derives from discussing them i...
