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Portrait of a reporter as a middleman

By Sidharth Mishra
It seldom happens that one gets a chance to write a sequel to the Notebook. The reports last week about mediapersons seeking benefits from corporate houses led to the resignation of two senior journalists named in the purported Public Interest Litigation and nothing more. Before I come around to discuss why I am so dismissive of the issue, let me share with you some anecdotes as I did last week.
 
About a decade, or may be a few years more, ago we had run a copy on the pending bankruptcy case in a foreign land of an upcoming business house in the education sector. This had brought instant 
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Capital Budget

By Sidharth Mishra
In the ongoing cricket season, with finance minister Arun Jaitley himself being a cricket enthusiast, the best cricketing euphemism to describe his full Budget speech would be that the Narendra Modi government was still playing the opening overs.While the robust economic survey released on Friday raised expectations of a Budget which would usher second generation reforms, the annual financial statement presented a day later fell a little short.
At the end of his 95-minutes-long address, the minister said, “People who urge us to undertake Big Bang Reforms, also say that the Indian economy is a giant super tanker, or an elephant. An elephant, moves slowly but surely.” Though short on big bang reforms, 
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An accountant's 'chug' to Railways

By Sidharth Mishra

Railways minister Suresh Prabhu enjoys formidable reputation as a chartered accountant. The annual financial statement of the Indian Railways presented by him on 26 February 2015can be best summarised as a chartered accountant’s budget.Prabhu has proposed to reduce expenditure, maximise revenues to save 11.5 paise per rupee it earns in the coming year. This means that he proposes to bring the operating ratio down to 88.5% from the present 91.8%, which is quite a daunting task.

In drawing a “balance-sheet” like Budget, he has, however, been careful to not lose  sight of popular sentiments and proposes to transfer the benefits of every paisa saved to passengers. Prabhu did not announce any hike in the passenger tariff, wooing the common man but sent  markets into a tailspin by
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Portrait of a reporter as a dalal

Leaks are a cure for corruption, writes Sidharth Mishra
These are bad times for us reporters. On coming to power, leaders of two long-drawn public movements, who were supported by the media,  made their respective secretariats out of bounds for press reporters.  Before I go into the merits of their decisions, let me share some anecdotes with you. My first experience with leaks occurred nearly 25 years ago. I had just started off as a mofussil reporter in Bhagalpur for the Patna edition of a national daily. Bhagalpur’s protocol then still had the divisional commissioner at the helm. The gentleman then holding office, who later became a secretary to the Government of India, 
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Delhi statehood undesirable

By Sidharth Mishra
It goes without saying that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is a sharp politician. While the connect he established with people in the last election was largely based on the “freedom” agenda, i.e. freedom from paying power, water, and wi-fi bills, he has suddenly tried to raise the issue of statehood for Delhi to the centre-stage. In his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before being sworn-in, Kejriwal made it clear that the issue of statehood would be the fulcrum of the relationship between the Delhi state and Centre.
Kejriwal reiterated the proposition during the address that followed his swearing-in. He asked the Prime Minister to leave the governance of Delhi to the state government and advised him to focus on rest of the country. Now this is easier said than done. Over the years various chief ministers in the national capital,
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Why on Shivratri Modi went for Church function

By Sidharth Mishra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, getting wiser from the party’s huge loss in the just concluded Delhi assembly polls, on Tuesday said his government will not allow any religious group to incite hatred and will strongly act against any religious violence.
With the Budget session of Parliament scheduled to commence later this month, the Prime Minister’s aggressive criticism of hatred against minority communities is also being seen as holding out an olive branch to the Opposition, which had ensured extended logjam in the House during the last session 
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Be a sutradhar, not an adhinayak

BJP's attempts at forcefully replicating the Lok Sabha majority in states will create discord, writes Sidharth Mishra
In the winter of 1993, at the height of the Ramjanambhoomi movement, elections were held for the assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and the newly created assembly of Delhi. With Lal Krishna Advani as the face of the movement, riding on the demolition of Babri Masjid a year earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went into elections with the confidence of a victor.
They had good reasons to believe it. The BJP was counting on the sympathy garnered after the dismissal of state governments under Kalyan Singh (UP), Sunderlal Patwa (Madhya Pradesh) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) by the Centre in the wake of demolition. The results were startling, which was most aptly depicted by a cartoon of the venerable RK Laxman. It showed the party celebrating its victory in ‘Battle for Delhi’ 
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Migrants changed Delhi, delivered it to Kejriwal

By Sidharth Mishra

Commenting on the resounding victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi assembly polls, its senior leader Yogendra Yadav made a very apt comment to this reporter. “For us these were local elections of a city assembly, the Prime Minister decided to put it on the national pedestal,” said Yadav, the psephologist-turned-politician.
The AAP won 67 of the 70 seats at stake and grabbed 53% of the vote share. The unprecedented drubbing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can be summarized as the rejection of the politics practiced by the Narendra Modi government 
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