Prabhakar Kulkarni : Articles

Media exposure triggers historic agitation

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/09/2012

The sale of Lata Mangeshkar's"Jayprabha Studio" has been prevented by the film fraternity and the citizens of Kolhapur, after the Maharashtra Times broke the story.

Another trust scam exposed

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |26/12/2011

Marathi daily Loksatta has revealed the likely link between a huge donation received by a Minister's trust and the governmental sanctions accorded to the donor.

Seeking umbrage under Official Secrets Act

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/03/2011

The real strength of a democracy lies in transparency. The need to maintain secrecy in official interest is not always in public interest.

Home truths?

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2010

A no-holds-barred battle between a policeman and a politician becomes masala for the media and rocks the ruling coalition in Maharashtra.

Marathi media on the Chavan-Amitabh issue

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/04/2010

While severely criticizing Congress culture and the party’s narrow political game, ‘Saamna’ has commented that Bachchan is not a political personality.

Editor made PIL litigant

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/08/2009

The High Court has taken cognizance of the investigative series, and recorded a ‘sue moto’ public interest litigation by making the editor a PIL litigant and providing an advocate to him to fight the case.

Unearthing rural corruption

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/06/2009

Marathi newspapers expose corruption and find 60 percent of the employees in Maharashtra¿s agriculture department are unqualified,

Sakal exposes corruption

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/05/2009

Strangely enough money thus earned by way of bribe is invested in the same business of liquor shops owned by those belonging to the prohibition department.

Pravin Mahajan’s biography and the Marathi press

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |27/04/2009

In his editorial Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar has explained why he published part of autobiography by Pravin Mahajan while others lacked courage to publish it.

Marathi press on Belgaum issue

BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |04/02/2009

Most of the Marathi newspapers have critically interpreted the police action with analysis of the burning issue,

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Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.