"Your clickbait mill recently framed me for confusing Riteish Deshmukh for Arnab Goswami (yes, that was my tweet). It was heartening, in a very 2017 way, to see my trolling morph into #FakeNews, but it also made me curious about the man claiming to be Pakistan's migraine. Given its claims of global significance, and because we have Hotstar over here, I decided to risk the headache and tuned in to Republic on inaugural day. "

Ahmer Naqvi's stinging piece on Republic TV's debut. Do read