Republic TV launched on May 6 in a burst of flag waving, literal and figurative, promising to "give it back to the anti-nationals". It will take on one powerful person a day the channel promises, and began with Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan in Bihar, playing a tape of him hectoring RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to act against policemen. We hope the list of powerful wrongdoers it takes on will not be selective.