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Shantanu Datta

Shantanu Datta

Still a fighter to be a writer, aspirationalist toward being a journalist.

By Shantanu Datta

Hey media, why are you giving me that news?

It's not news if there's no conspiracy behind it.

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Why did we need Kalam as president of India?

Yes, he was a first rate scientist. But is Rashtrapati Bhavan a laboratory?

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Cheers Monk, a very old monk

Roasted by some who fancy they have 'graduated' to better and toasted by many who have rarely ventured beyond, this rum debate is meaningless for most part.

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Is PK also India's most-discussed film ever?

The controversy tells us a film cannot just be a film any longer — if it has editor, writer, actors etc, it needs dissectors, too.

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Dear Mamatadi, isn't Abol Tabol a good name too for West Bengal town?

I have nothing against Mamata Banerjee renaming towns. I have a problem with the logic, or the lack of it.

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Ask please why are farmers killing themselves

The issue isn't whether Narendra Modi or Arvind Kejriwal are to blame for Gajendra Singh's death.

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Cameras can be creepy: What Arvind Kejriwal can learn from Smriti Irani's episode

Lakhs of CCTVs may not be the best 'safety' idea for women.

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Who decides a freedom fighter is our ratna?

Scrap the idea of giving Bharat Ratnas posthumously and confer it on people who have worked in independent India.

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Give Rahul Gandhi a mauka. He may be cheering for Team India in World Cup

As the Congress scion defeats speculation and fails to return by March 20, here's just another theory on his sabbatical: either Pacific islands, or Australia, or both, or neither.

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AC issue: Is Kejriwal becoming mature?

How different is Delhi CM's request to remove all ACs from his Civil Lines home from some of the ridiculous demands of the ruling class? At the core of it, not much.

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