Screensavers
- Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik does a 15-minute cameo on NDTV to articulate why he snapped ties with the BJP
- Varun Feroze Gandhi's hate speech in Pilibhit is a mega hit on television for days on end
- Manmohan Singh and the Nehru-Gandhi family target Advani. The slugfest gets major play.
- Modi does a budhiya-gudiya act as he targets the Congress
- Jarnail Singh chucks a shoe at home minister P. Chidmabaram and misses. But it's on news channels' loops 24/7 for two days.
- Priyanka Gandhi hogs two days of television limelight as she denies she is joining politics
- DMK chief M. Karunanidhi surprises everyone by going on an impromptu fast. Flanked by his wife, children and TV cameras he declares he is ready to die for the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils.
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The Hindu
Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India
Electoral Reforms In India
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By Anuradha Raman with inputs from Smruti Kopikkar in Mumbai, Dola Mitra in Calcutta, John Mary in Thiruvanathapuram and Pushpa Iyengar in Chennai
