The Hoot reports that during a recent recording of a panel discussion on reservation for an English news channel, a pro-reservation panellist turned to the big TV honcho anchor and said: “Isn’t it amazing that someone like you who came out of St Stephen’s with pass marks and got rejected by UPSC after failing the exams, has reached the heights you have? Now isn’t that because of the quota of the old boy school network?” Which channel, and who is the anchor?
28 June 2006 at 8:42 pm
Pranoy Roy
28 June 2006 at 8:43 pm
Ooooh la la.
Rajdeep perhaps?
I dunno.
On a similar note http://warfornews.blogspot.com for all the juicy bites of journalism
28 June 2006 at 9:21 pm
guess Rajdeep or Barkha dutt
28 June 2006 at 9:56 pm
Aha a lil snooping does help ( clap clap)
From what I found from these three sources..
http://www.saja.org/dutt.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prannoy_Roy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajdeep_Sardesai
it really does seem like Barkha aka parachute journalist.
Only in her case,the old-guys network shud have been old-gals network.
Any more info would be welcome
28 June 2006 at 10:31 pm
Prannoy was in Doon School and Univ of London
Rajdeep was in St Xaviers…
And Barkha WAS in St Stephen’s… So it might be her.
28 June 2006 at 10:37 pm
Prannoy Roy never studied at St.stephen, Rajdeep studied at Mumbai and is Rhodes scholor, Karana Thapar studied at Doon and only Barkha studied at St.Stephen. We do not know about her failure to get in at UPSC. But journalism was in her blood. Her moter prabha behl was chief Reporter at HT and was famous for war reports in 1965.
28 June 2006 at 10:37 pm
I guess it could be Karan Thapar.
28 June 2006 at 10:55 pm
finally looks like ‘Adda Gode mele deepa’ is solved
28 June 2006 at 10:58 pm
Maybe Vir Singhvi
28 June 2006 at 11:41 pm
is it vikram chandra? he’s from stephen’s and is also bureaucrat yogesh chandra’s ‘nalayak’ (son) as someone called him once.
29 June 2006 at 2:48 am
ಯಾಕೂ ನಾನು ಬರೆಯುವುಧೆಲಾ
29 June 2006 at 3:19 am
@prakash…
yaakO neevu baryOdella yaarigU artha aagalla anta heLakke prayatna paDtirO haagide….
kannadadalli type maaDakke/Odakke help bEkE?
29 June 2006 at 3:28 am
ಥ್ಯಂಕ್ಯು ಸಿಸ್ಯ ,ನಾನು ಆಲೆ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಮುಂದುವರಿಸಿದ್ದೆನೆ….ನೋಡಿ
29 June 2006 at 12:04 pm
If it were to be a former TV anchor, I would have said it is “Tejashwini Ramesh” ;-) ;-)…. Alas, it can’t be so even then for the reason, people playing petty politics cannot be from such colleges!
29 June 2006 at 12:08 pm
I think its Barkha Dutt. Barkha elli odiddaru enu madidru ella nanage gothilla but sunday reservation bagge ondu programme barutha iddidanthu nija nanu nodo hothige adhu kone ghatta muttithu so it is a gueess work. I request kp to disclose the answer for this atleast this weekend amele nidde barolla hegu live show anthira ur lips are not tightened i hope
29 June 2006 at 2:28 pm
no no. it must be srinivasan jain
29 June 2006 at 5:44 pm
This page from wikipedia — http://tinyurl.com/lcn89 says both Ms. Dutt and Mr. Roy are alumni of St. Stephens.
30 June 2006 at 10:28 pm
Can’t be either Prannoy Roy or Barkha Dutt, because if Express pulls any stunt against them, they will retaliate by taking Shekhar Gupta’s much-unwatched “Walk the Talk” off NDTV.
1 July 2006 at 1:35 pm
The pro-reservation wallah’s snide aside may win some applause, but surely the interviewee not the interviewer is under scrutiny?