Entries Tagged as ‘Current Affairs/Politics’

May 5, 2006

Chinese Whispers: The Bad Journalism Edition

Samit Basu writes about how his comments on the Kaavya Vishwanathan story suffers a twisted fate of Chinese whispers. He is originally misquoted and mis-contexualized by Tehelka, which in turn is further misquoted by none other than the Wall Street Journal. The final story:

"There’s nothing wrong with a little national pride over a young star [...]

April 13, 2006

A double helical twist to affirmative action

While the debate rages on regarding reservations at higher education (mainly the IIT and IIMs) for the so-called ‘backward classes/castes’ back in India, this story in New York Times adds a bizarre dimension to ‘affirmative action‘, reservation practiced Amrika-ishtyle.