By Lord Avebury

We have seen this week an all too familiar and tragic picture unfolding in the Horn of Africa as drought and famine threaten the region. Millions of people are without water and food; families and children in Kenya and Somalia are walking miles a day in search of basic provisions and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that refugee camps are hugely overcrowded.

By Asif Noorani

On my three official visits to Chennai, I had nothing much to do in the evenings except catching up with my reading and watching the idiot box in the river facing rooms that I was ensconced in at the Madras Club, until I made some good friends. My one big grouse was that Indian TV channels believed that only bad news about Pakistan was worth covering. But soon after I returned to Pakistan and started watching our own news channels more intently, I found, much to my horror, that our own TV journalists were doing the same not just when covering India but also their own country.