why they call them hacks

vir is a great example of everything that's wrong with journalism in india. he's loud, opinionated, a self-proclaimed expert on (in this order) fine dining, the travel and hospitality industry, indian politics, indian history. the surprise: he's qualified to comment on none of the above.

me back to my days at a certain dotcom: semi-literate clown as editor-in-chief, college dropout as editor, colleagues with degrees from dubious institutions, and not one man or woman qualified to cover an assigned beat. conversations with those fools are now, very, very happily, all in the murky past.