WhatsApp, Privacy and Me
Why I decided to quit WhatsApp rather than agree to its new privacy policy.
Read More about WhatsApp, Privacy and MeThe Arm that wields the sword
18 Apr 2024
Why I decided to quit WhatsApp rather than agree to its new privacy policy.
Read More about WhatsApp, Privacy and MeDear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing this to correct you on some factual and a lot of perceptual errors that seem to behind almost every sentence in the piece. I’m writing in the hope that you may correct these,…
Read More about An Open Letter to Aakar PatelTime for media to cast aside a few black sheep who are giving the whole profession a bad name
Read More about Jaane Mat Do YaaronIn today’s milieu of crisp sound-bites, newsbreak a minute and short attention spans, the struggle to capture eyeballs and mind space of readers and viewers has become fiercely competitive. We, as consumers of news have become increasingly laid back and lazy, preferring our brains to be spoon-fed thoughts and ideas the anchors or journalists find…
Read More about Beyond the headlinesThis is a follow up of a prior post on the issue of online intimidation by journalists, specially of serving armed forces officers. I was witness to a similar incident, where a pair of journalists ganged up upon someone, apparently a serving officer. It started when the officer objected to one of them linking…
Read More about Browbeating of service officers by defence journalistsWith volumes having been spoken about Freedom of Expression in the past few days, its difficult to write about it without a wee bit of apprehension. Has everything that’s to be said on the subject already been said? Why bother adding to the terabytes of characters jostling for cyberspace propagating different points of view on…
Read More about FOE- Who Will Guard The Guardians?I wonder if Arnab Goswami has seen Chennai Express. If he has, he didn’t seem to have taken Shah Rukh Khan’s dialogue, “Don’t underestimate the power of an ordinary man”, seriously. Or maybe its the other way around, and he overestimated his own and his channels ability to control and direct viewers minds. That’s possibly…
Read More about Don’t ‘Angry’ the Common ManThe spontaneous outpouring of anger on the streets of Delhi are a cause for introspection by politicians – all of them. Why have the people lost faith in them completely?
Read More about Vox PopuliSix and a half decades since we got our independence. For all intents and purposes, we are citizens of an independent democratic country whose constitution guarantees freedom of speech. But when the first son-in-law of the country calls it a ‘Banana Republic’, he definitely is speaking with the authority of an insider. And the grand…
Read More about Muzzling the MangoWatching Anna’s agitation from the comfort of my living room I got the impression that it was a damp squib this time around. As per the news, the crowd was extremely thin, and the zing was missing. Breathless anchors on channel after channel prophesied the lingering death of the Jan Lokpal movement. Various reasons were…
Read More about The Importance of Being Anna