Or, how the Media sees the departed Jyoti Basu -- a look at the obituaries and commentaries posted by two networks with widely different backgrounds and apparently different raison d’être. 

BY Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 9 June 2017

In the current discussion and debates surrounding Wendy Doniger’s book on Hinduism, neither Penguin India nor the Indian government is as relevant as the forces which continue to shape global Hinduism, as we speak.

BY Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 24 February 2014

...Will you please speak up? What we need to hear, after the jingoistic madness has cooled and MNIK has made its first few crores, is the powerful voice of the people – not of the immigrants but of all the Marathi-speakers.

BY Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 16 February 2010

The official and unofficial networks of sexism, corruption, and prejudice that drove a 14-year old to the most desperate solution cannot be wiped out by rewriting a few articles of the Indian Penal Code.

BY Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 26 January 2010