Words matter. These are the best Ravish Kumar Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always wear an earpiece for security reasons. For someone who often gets chased, it’s not an indulgence.
I wondered whether being a Political Science student and a teacher are sufficient qualifications to become a politician and quickly adapt to the complex world of politics.
When NDTV produced its programmes on 24 hours with leaders on the campaign trail, its biggest draw was the exposure of what the leader is like in their home and at their dining table.
I live surrounded by threats. I must stay alert. I am a law-abiding citizen; have never broken any rule while driving. But if someone clicks a photo or shoots a video, I have to be suspicious of their intentions.
Definitely there has been a decline in journalism. It wasn’t there at all when you fought an election, won, lost and came back to become an editor. That must have been the golden age of journalism.
In the film ‘PK’, questions have been raised about the theatrics surrounding religion, but it is not limited to a particular faith. In the end, the film teaches us, every religion says love one another and trust one another.
Films which often preach Hindu-Muslim unity have deliberately steered clear of Hindu-Muslim love stories.
A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news.
I often stumble upon new stories when I am wandering on the roads in search of information.
Hindi journalism is too dogmatic. I often wonder how it can be modernised.
I am genuinely interested in China, I wanted to see it visually.
It is common knowledge that social media today is fertile ground for trampling all over the decency of language. This is done not just by members of your party and your supporters but also those from the opposition. And their numbers are increasing every day.
The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within that system.
The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.
The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.
I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.
Romantic relationships would get formed, then fall apart. Because unlike in Delhi, love was viewed differently back home in Bihar, where issues like caste were the breaking point.
I want to explain to everyone that during election season, a politician is always short of time. We are thankful to any politician who takes out time for an interview.
I have an aluminium trunk that I came to Delhi with. God has given me a lot in the last 27 years, but that trunk remains with me. I can return to Motihari with that trunk but I have my family to support.
The walk of migrant workers towards their home is a march against the stripping of their democratic rights. With their walk, they are defying the system, walking on roads which they are not allowed to tread.
Shibani Sharma got me a job as a translator in NDTV. Then NDTV India got launched and I worked on the desk for a while.
If I cannot speak or write about it, I struggle with the truth. When I speak out in an effort to process what I observe and attempt to stretch myself beyond my many inadequacies, people ask me am I not afraid of the government? I am scared of my inadequacies.
Democracy provides the space for open criticism.
The language of our democracy should be such that the weakest in our society should feel safe.
Watching people getting absorbed in news, I have learned that if the media wants, it can empower citizens with its brave questions. It can make India’s democracy more alive.
Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.
We live in an ‘eventocracy’. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.
Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.
Innumerable lovers of Hindi cinema have lit up the big screen. But on screen, they are just two beautiful bodies. They have no caste nor religion. The love that our filmmakers imagined was little more than make-believe.
By the end of my BA, I was still not good in English, but I went on to enroll for an MA in History.
A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.
After 25 years in the profession, I have understood that being a reader or viewer is a task of great responsibility.
Not everyone is in love and nor does everyone have the courage for love. In our country, most people simply fantasise about being in love. I don’t know about other countries but in India, to love is to battle with innumerable social and religious barriers.
