Ratnadeep Choudhary, Author at ThePrint

On Camera

A bailout for Jet Airways will fill Indian skies with zombie airlines

Ila Patnaik - 22 March, 2019

Air India is the original zombie, infected by a govt bailout. If Jet is bailed out, then the next firm will need one too & the infection will spread.

From principles to pragmatism: Five ways Modi has changed India’s foreign policy

22 March, 2019

BJP is using armed forces in polls but Modi govt fighting them in Supreme Court over money

22 March, 2019

PUBG players arrested: Overreaction by police or is addiction a public concern?

ThePrint Team - 21 March, 2019

The Gujarat police arrested several PUBG lovers, many of them students, for playing the banned video game.

Defence

Behind final clearance for Tejas, 10 concessions given to fighter jet

Amrita Nayak Dutta - 22 March, 2019

Final operational clearance to Tejas was granted even though the jet's drop tank & other weapon configurations are yet to be cleared while airframe fatigue test is still underway.

China humiliated India because of these 5 fatal follies of Modi Doctrine

Shekhar Gupta - 16 March, 2019

India looks less equal to China than 5 years ago, US alliance is hobbled by trade, and Pakistan looks anything but chastened by Balakot. What’s gone wrong?

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Ratnadeep Choudhary

Shah for Advani in BJP list: ‘Significant’ for CNN-News18, ‘odd farewell’ for India Today

Hindu and Hindustan Times play up Congress alliance woes

Like Rahul Gandhi, British in India viewed chowkidars as ‘chors’ too

TV news shows Priyanka Gandhi on boat yatra waving to empty riverbanks

Parrikar death displaces elections as news of the day

Nehru is ‘Most Wanted’ in Telegraph, Bua-Bhatija star in Bhaskar’s film poster

Media targets ‘Great Wall of China’ — Express

Arnab gives Rahul ‘ji’ prime time billing

NYT’s Pulwama ‘explosion’ and Bloomberg’s poll gifts get everyone’s ‘goat’

TV ‘polls’ ‘sentiment trackers’ give Modi Balakot advantage

On Camera

Opinion

A bailout for Jet Airways will fill Indian skies with zombie airlines

From principles to pragmatism: Five ways Modi has changed India’s foreign policy

BJP is using armed forces in polls but Modi govt fighting them in Supreme Court over money

Talk Point

PUBG players arrested: Overreaction by police or is addiction a public concern?

Defence

Behind final clearance for Tejas, 10 concessions given to fighter jet

National Interest

China humiliated India because of these 5 fatal follies of Modi Doctrine