Category Archives: Media

WhatsApp, Privacy and Me

Posted on May 28, 2021 by sword

Why I decided to quit WhatsApp rather than agree to its new privacy policy. Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

Posted on November 6, 2016 by sword

Dear 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 … Continue reading →

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Jaane Mat Do Yaaron

Posted on September 27, 2016 by sword

Time for media to cast aside a few black sheep who are giving the whole profession a bad name Continue reading →

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Beyond the headlines

Posted on August 15, 2016 by sword

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 viewers has become fiercely competitive. We, as consumers of news have become increasingly laid back and … Continue reading →

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Browbeating of service officers by defence journalists

Posted on May 30, 2016 by sword

  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, … Continue reading →

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FOE- Who Will Guard The Guardians?

Posted on February 23, 2016 by sword

With 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 … Continue reading →

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Don’t ‘Angry’ the Common Man

Posted on April 9, 2015 by sword

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 … Continue reading →

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Vox Populi

Posted on December 24, 2012 by sword

The 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? Continue reading →

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Muzzling the Mango

Posted on November 21, 2012 by sword

Six 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 … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Being Anna

Posted on July 29, 2012 by sword

Watching 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 … Continue reading →

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