Professor C R Mukundan Ketan Tanna speaks to the man whose liedetector technology is so loved by the police In the mind games being played out on an increasingly splattered chessboard between intelligence agencies and terror groups, a portly, 67-year-old professor from Bangalore could turn out to be the crucial bishop. Professor Mukundan Champadi Raman […]

ORDER, ORDER! ALL RISE Kiran Bedi says dispensing justice has always been her true calling India’s first attempt at ‘legal television’, helmed by Kiran Bedi, is on its way. But will it be about TRPs or social justice, wonders Ketan Tanna   Does your husband (or wife) beat you? Are you victimised by your children? […]

finds out how two housing societies in Mumbai have been surviving without the idiot box for the last 13 years Afew kilometres away from Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms stand two housing societies whose residents aren’t, like most of India, breathlessly following the convoluted tracks of her daft soaps. In fact, they don’t care about television […]

NOT ITS DAY A vet conducts a check-up at his Mumbai clinic Pet canines these days are pampered with the most expensive medical and beauty care from hip replacement surgery to aromatherapy massages, says Ketan Tanna Last week, well-known opthalmic surgeon Keiki Mehta conducted a phacoemulsification cataract surgery. According to medical journals, this advanced surgery […]

CHEERING UP: Sonu Nigam at a recent function organised by the Cancer Patients Aid Association Ketan Tanna on how the economic meltdown is hurting NGOs dependent on corporate funding In the first week of September 2008, Radha Vedantam, project manager at the Society for Service to Voluntary Agencies (SOSVA) was a very happy woman. SOSVA […]