Radia

Bye bye smoking gun: The Niira Radia tapes and the modern political scandal

Niira Radia might have closed shop. But Radiagate lives on in the infamous tapes. Except you can't call them the smoking gun anymore. The digital truth is a slippery creature, endlessly manipulated. The only thing indisputably smokin' is Ms. Radia herself.

The Kanimozhi drama: A Bollywood dream come true

Kanimozhi has a touch of a tainted Cinderella with her brothers playing the structural equivalent of the ugly sisters.