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Republic had aired 19 audio tapes to question Tharoor's action after wife Sundanda Pushkar's death Former Union minister and diplomat Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday rubbished as “misrepresentations and outright lies” the allegations made by Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV to question Tharoor’s actions after his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in 2014. The previous night, the newly launched news channel had aired 19 audio tapes in its purported exposé of the Congress parliamentarian’s actions. Tharoor said in a Facebook post that the accusations were “exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies”, and called the anchor “an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist”. A Congress member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor lamented that “someone would exploit a human tragedy for personal gain and TRPs”, and challenged Goswami “to prove his false claims in a court of law”. On January 17, 2014, Sunanda Pushkar had been found dead in a 5...

Republic TV is about Arnab Goswami multiplied 24 by 7 Arnab Goswami’s new English news channel Republic TV is bang on target. It is very much a reflection of what India has become – a noisy, chaotic place where coherent debate without shouting, screaming and name-calling is impossible. For someone who has not watched Indian news channels for over two years now, the first hour of watching a show on Republic TV on Sunday night was frazzling. I just couldn’t figure out what the issue was, who the people were and what they were fighting about. There were five panellists on a show that was wrongly titled 'The Sunday Debate'. It was not a debate. It was a one-sided haranguing of the panellists by Republic TV’s biggest shareholder and editor-in-chief, the inimitable Arnab Goswami. Not that the panellists were bothered – they were all shouting at the same time trying to get their point across. It was something to do with accusations of corruption against Delhi chief minis...