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: social media
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…
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…
Who’s Tweeting What – Modi Vs Kejriwal
Having followed both @narendramodi and @arvindkejriwal on twitter for a while, I noticed a distinct pattern to the way they each tweet. To confirmRead More…
Do you REALLY ‘Like’ me?
Politicians in India have discovered social media with a vengeance. After the runaway success of the initial forays of a few, and abject failure of otRead More…