Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier
An interesting, and for most of us, encouraging, phenomenon is visible in India today. It is the brick by brick dismantling of the neo-caste system inRead More…
Tag: Media
An Open Letter to Aakar Patel
Dear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing thiRead More…
Feeding the wrong dog will kill off Twitter
In an insightful piece in the Mumbai Mirror, @PritishNandy has highlighted the reasons why he feels Twitter is dying. Commercialisation, politicisatioRead More…
Jaane Mat Do Yaaron
It wasn’t very long ago that media (or press, as it was better known as) enjoyed near universal public trust and respect as the fourth pillar of demRead More…
Beyond the headlines
In 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 vRead More…
Browbeating of service officers by defence journalists
This is a follow up of a prior post on the issue of online intimidation by journalists, specially of serving armed forces officers. I was wiRead More…
Don’t ‘Angry’ the Common Man
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 thRead More…
Mango Shakes Politics
The turnout at the rally to launch Aam Aadmi Party at Jantarmantar, held on the 63rd anniversary of the adoption of our constitution, was an indicRead More…
Muzzling the Mango
Six and a half decades since we got our independence. For all intents and purposes, we are citizens of an independent democratic country whose conRead More…
Morale of the story
Just like honour, morale is a word that has been bandied about a lot in the recent past. Specially in context of the age row that has been domRead More…