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A police officer is seen at the gate of a building housing BBC office in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

DC Edit | BBC â€˜surveyâ€™: Just bad optics

The “survey” by the income tax department on the offices of the BBC hardly three weeks after the British...

16 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

$A police officer (front 2R) stands at the entrance of the office building where Indian tax authorities raided BBCs office in New Delhi on February 14, 2023. - The BBC said it was \fully cooperating\ with Indian tax authorities raiding its New Delhi and Mumbai offices on February 14, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)$ Nation

Fully cooperating, says BBC on -'tax survey-' at offices in India

LONDON: The BBC said on Tuesday that it is "fully cooperating" with the Income Tax authorities who are at its...

14 Feb 2023 4:33 PM IST

Hanif Kureishi. (Deccan Chronicle Photo)

Shobhaa De | Why time for â€˜maun vratâ€™ is over: Silence not an...

I am on a self-imposed “maun vrat” (acute laryingitis). Not at all sure what I am protesting against. But...

11 Feb 2023 9:01 AM IST

On 26/01/23, we screened the banned BBC documentary Â‘The Modi Question at FTII, said a statement issued by the FTII Students Association. (Photo: Teitter)

Saeed Naqvi | Will the BBC TV documentary be revived here for...

Was the Thames as much on fire as the Jamuna was when India: The Modi Factor, the BBC documentary, was telecast in...

8 Feb 2023 12:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Kishwar Desai | Whiff of duplicity! Why did BBC sit on Gujarat...

The BBC story with a narrative that was obviously antagonistic towards the Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, is...

23 Jan 2023 12:30 AM IST

Any parent with a teen or two under their rooves will have dealt with this accelerated development this transformation of their tender tots into fully-formed individuals in the blink of a bleary, parental eye. (Photo By Arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Smells like teen spirit? Donâ€™t sweat it, step...

With my daughter’s recent birthday, I now find myself with two mercurial teenagers in the house, both in the early...

27 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.

13 Aug 2018 12:43 AM IST

Cabbages & Kings: Why did the English stay behind

Cabbages & Kings: Why did the English stay behind

There was no analysis of how Partition came about, though several historians had their partial say.

2 Sept 2017 1:10 AM IST

In picture: The main entrance to the headquarters of the BBC in London. (Photo: AP)

Cabbages & Kings: BBC - Push for diversity on air

The latest statistics show that for the Â£7.5 million spent on the network it gets 632,000 listeners a week.

12 Aug 2017 12:56 AM IST

David Bowie (1947-2016)

David Bowie kept changing his tune

The experts and the BBC will tell you that Bowie and the Beatles were successful.

16 Jan 2016 2:48 AM IST

No rhyme or reason

No rhyme or reason

As children in the 1950s, we inherited this rhyme from our ex-Raj schools

24 May 2014 7:11 AM IST