Pratik Kanjilal
The writer is Associate Editor.
Articles By Pratik Kanjilal
War, what is it good for? The military-industrial complex
Donald Trump’s threat to erase Iran is causing unrest elsewhere.
Busted in Bengal
Accusations, counter-accusations, TV reporters as referees and a whodunit in Kolkata
Speakeasy: The Alphabet of Coding
New Scrabble words and the art of frequency analysis.
Speakeasy: Thugs of Hindostan
On the language of criminals and the world of crime.
Food for Thought
Somewhere between mangoes, laddoos and rosogollas, a nation goes to election
Breaking down news: Free for All
Free speech is not for TV anchors alone. A group of liberals is exercising its right on YouTube
Speakeasy: Bitten by the Bug
On the many plagues of humankind.
Breaking down news: The new normal
While foreign channels are consumed with the Brexit story, elections in India are opening doors that are best left closed
Speakeasy: Commercial Interests
How the internet has caught up with the ways of the world.
Flight into Danger
Uncertain Journeys highlights the magnitude of the cost that workers have to pay when they are uprooted by financial need — a need so pressing that despite the hardships, they are inclined to return to foreign parts after they come home.
Spaced Out
Of anti-satellite missiles, complicated national security issues and endless TV debates
Speakeasy: Fall of the Small
Was the vision of internet-generated consumer power, preached by a divisive book 20 years ago, just a mirage?
Speakeasy: What Gandhi wrote to Hitler and other letters of note
Historical significance apart, the correspondence of the influential reveal the writers’ foibles in all their human ordinariness.
Breaking Down News: Wartime Anchors
Far from the borders, anchors in TV studios marched to the tune of their own escalating drumbeat.
Breaking down news: Going with the Flow
While TV runs away with the news of India turning off the tap on Pakistan, hate speech and threats against journalists peaked this week.
Speakeasy: Charlie Chaplin to Vande Bharat Express, a history of the sped up video
On speed, velocity, acceleration and other superpowers.
Kolkata’s Street Theatre
All eyes were on Mamata Banerjee, as she publicly refused to allow the CBI to bag her police chief, leaving no air time for anybody else.
A Question of Identity
Through the everchanging frame of prehistory, a look at the evolutionary story of we, the people.
Speakeasy: A manual on how to keep calm and push on
A survivor’s manual in an increasingly totalitarian world.
Breaking Down News: The Face of Change
While television is no longer at the leading edge of news, social media is formalising transparency norms for political advertising.
