Hard Nuts vs. Cookies
From a very readable article in the latest edition of Technology Review* “You Don’t Understand Our Audience“, an excerpt that applies equally well to the media in India. The background to this extract is...
Category: Indian Media
Reassessing Mahatma: Did Gandhi-giri really work?
Several weeks ago, I came across this piece by Dr Dipak Basu (Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan), examining the role of Satyagraha in the national freedom movement. Until I read the...
On Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Responsibility
*** This is a hurried post stolen from a 20-min window at work *** Dear Readers, This has proven to be a great discussion…Unfortunately at times, (I feel) it has bordered on the idealistic...
UPDATED: Is Taslima being treated differently from MF Husain?
From Free Press Journal, via Sify: “M F Hussain spared, but not me: Taslima” (emphasis mine) ….She (Taslima)Â said in her outspoken manner why she was being attacked whereas ‘nothing happened to M F Hussain...
What has “a Hindu” got to do with this?
Came across this gratuitous reference in a recent ANI story about an Indian American in Britain who has filed 40 cases of racial discrimination with employment tribunals in Britain. The news-item had this “nugget” towards...
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