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Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Apr 29, 2020

A tribute to an unforgettable gem

How do you explain a loss that is so personal and yet so public? What are the set rules for grieving…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Jan 31, 2020

Of changing times and systems

It’s perfectly safe to suggest that nothing changes in India. Consider any component of this vast country…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Apr 26, 2017

Caught in a semantic dung

Believe it or not, all ideologies are similar but some are more similar than the others. If one digs deeper into…

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Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Feb 23, 2017

SRK Effect

On Sunday night, after early dinner, i was telling Palla about my journalism days. Some of the interesting exploits, which involved chasing popular personalities on phone and foot, and we ended up talking about Shah Rukh Khan. I told her about my visit to his home and the subsequent interview. Although she’s…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Jan 25, 2017

Being mad isn’t enough

I thought of puking something on the role media is playing nowadays in the so-called free world. If change is indeed constant, then media is certainly its greatest victim. Not very long ago, the veracity of news used to be the benchmark of journalism and journalistic integrity couldn’t be…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Nov 8, 2015

A business of bias

Other than helping us waste time in fashion, Twitter’s greatest achievement has to be its exposure of hypocrisy practised by political journos in our country. People who otherwise hide behind lengthy articles in newspapers end up showing their agenda-based journalism in their 140-character…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Feb 26, 2015

The heart of leaving

It’s been almost two weeks since Valentine’s Day and i wonder how much love is indeed in the air. And while i do so, let’s walk through the lane that has been shaping our idea of love. For reasons bordering on utter abstraction, isn’t it attached to the big screen? Of course, it’s present in…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Sep 10, 2014

Fading away closely

I’ve been saying for the past two years (like an unqualified soothsayer) that print journalism is going to die in five years. As of today, i’m either stuck in a time warp or things are indeed moving slowly. Overall, readership has gone down steadily across the board. Not a single daily can…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Jan 14, 2014

Skipping from lesson to lesson

A journalist who works for a daily can’t really afford a hangover. At least not during weekdays. However, the journo in our story learnt it the hard way. He got hammered the night before he was supposed to meet a top cop for a sensitive scoop. No surprise he barely woke up…

Shakti Shetty in Shaktian Space

Dec 14, 2012

Woes of a lazy journo

This piece was supposed to be written by a former trade journalist but she’s apparently too lazy to do the needful. What’s intriguing though is the behavioral interpretation of whether she was/became lazy before/after she switched careers. However, what we expect of journos is that they…