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Aam Aadmi

Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier

01 Mar 2017

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 in our society. Of course, the caste system per se was abolished by our constitution shortly after independence, yet the same independence slowly engendered this other, equally insidious neo-caste system…

Internet

Feeding the wrong dog will kill off Twitter

13 Oct 2016

Feeding abusive trolls instead of encouraging healthy debate will ultimately kill twitter

Media

Browbeating of service officers by defence journalists

30 May 2016

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 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…

Politics

Who’s Tweeting What – Modi Vs Kejriwal

23 May 2016

Having followed both @narendramodi and @arvindkejriwal on twitter for a while, I noticed a distinct pattern to the way they each tweet. To confirm my impressions, I did a detailed analysis of their tweets over a period of the past 50 days (1 Apr to 20 May 2016) and tried to broadly group them into…

Politics

Do you REALLY ‘Like’ me?

11 Jul 2013

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 others to control free expression, the political herd is now aspiring to graze on the green pastures of facebook and twitter. Latest to hit the news is Ashok Gehlot, the…