The government’s censorious nature had one positive effect –journalists, psephologists, activists & cartoonists came together to Draw to Demonstrate their protest

Hartosh Bal, Political Editor of Open magazine, talks to Madhu Trehan about the 'openness' of Open, its contrarian views, on it being a 'crappy upstart taking a swing at the heavyweights', the Radia tapes, and how William Darlymple never bought him that scotch!

Chandan Mitra, Editor & MD of Pioneer tells Madhu Trehan why he disapproved of the Operation West End & other ‘fictitious’ stings, being Shashi Tharoor’s campaign manager in college, his two most celebrated contempt-of-court cases and whether he feels Pioneer is a BJP paper.

On Dhobi Ghat, Madhu Trehan discusses the media coverage of the Aarushi Talwar case with panelists Sonia Singh, Harinder Baweja and Pinaki Mishra. Were the Talwars victims of 'competitive journalism' & journalistic agendas?

Madhu Trehan speaks to Neerja Chowdhury about her experiences with Himmat, buying a press with donations from readers during the Emergency, the importance of fact-checking learnt at The Statesman and the “upshot” of the Indian Express story and more.

HT Political Editor Vinod Sharma goes from beatific to belligerent while talking about his Centrist position, why he celebrated Vajpayee, being “separated at birth”, the Singhvi CD & chastity belts, and whether he’d ever accept a Rajya Sabha nomination

Sagarika Ghose talks about Ram Jethmalani, how politicians and journalists can never be friends, faux ‘live’ telecasts and whether she’d carry a negative story on Mukesh Ambani, now that he owns a stake in Network 18.

Karan takes up Devil's case relentlessly, but how does he take to role reversal? Watch Madhu Trehan give him a dose..... of his own medicine. Can Karan take it?

There are few who make news while reporting it. Barkha Dutt is one of them. And if she’s here, can controversies be far- Kargil war, 26/ 11 Mumbai siege reporting and of course, the Radia tapes. Madhu Trehan engages her in this probing interview about all the controversies that have been raining for ‘Barkha’. And yes, she also talks about all that you want to know from her- the online hate campaign against her, Chaitanaya Kunte’s blog, what Arnab Goswami means for news space in television, her views on paid news, and why TV journos have become our punching bags. Can Barkha take it?