It has been a busy season for news media. The kind of scams being revealed Vyapam or Lalit Modi are intriguing. In journalistic circles, the buzz is that when information of this sort is being leaked all over the place, some power struggle is being played out through the media.

That sounds cynical but the fact is that investigative journalism, the way it was practised in the ‘60s, ‘70s or ‘80s doesn’t exist.