Category: MediaWatch

Media Watch: How was the block buster Chak De India born. That was when scriptwriter-Lyricist Jaideep Sahni found out to his wonderment just a 3-inch space in print media for the girls who won the ...

Monthly Media Watch: Gender bias of Indian media A couple of days ago Indian print media woken up all of a sudden to women hockey. It came in a big way, told the world how ...

Indian Express: Game for more Nitin Sharma Author K Arumugam flips open the seventh edition of the Hockey Yearbook The name might be tad of a tongue twister this side of the country but tell ...

Journalism at its worst – once again Media Watch: Whom did Ric Charlesworth say his team would defeat India 10-0? When was it? Nobody knows, nobody cared to know, but Ric was unnecessarily dragged into ...

Media Watch: A former player from Mumbai was busy yesterday. The disgraced former coach called hockey covering journalists he knows, and planted a story. His feed was, how the Indian team for the Argentina tour ...

MEDIA WATCH Recently, a player turned administrator, Gurbux Singh, observed the following points in his monthly column in a leading daily. We thought of replying some of the point that this gentleman has been espousing ...

Sunday, August 24, 2008: Beyond the Beijing tally: Indian sport has begun to climb out of the barrel The current euphoria over “our best ever Olympics” is quite justified. One gold and two bronze and ...

Indian journalists, print and media, in general keep watching, writing and talking about cricket all through. The don’t seem know there is world outside cricket. But, all those souls all of a sudden come alive ...

Yesterday all newspapers nearly carried a news item captioned “Gurbaz Singh to lead India in the Junior Asia Cup”. All they meat was Gurbaj Singh who has been a live wire for Indian teams since ...

Failure to qualify for the Olympics is the catalyst for the change that needs to occur” If anyone can turn India’s fortunes around in hockey, it has to be the legendary Ric Charlesworth. Cricketer, hockey ...