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Tag Archives: Media
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 in our society. Of course, the caste system per se was abolished by our constitution … Continue reading
Posted in Aam Aadmi, Blogitorial, Common man, Democracy, Politics
Tagged babita plogat, bollywood, caste system, javed akuta, kangana ranaut, Karan Johar, Media, social media
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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 this to correct you on some factual and a lot of perceptual errors that seem to behind almost … Continue reading
Posted in Blogitorial, Media, Military
Tagged aakar patel, armed forces, Media, OROP, pension, times of india
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Feeding the wrong dog will kill off Twitter
Feeding abusive trolls instead of encouraging healthy debate will ultimately kill twitter Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Politics
Tagged abuse, block, Media, social media, trolls, twitter
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Jaane Mat Do Yaaron
Time for media to cast aside a few black sheep who are giving the whole profession a bad name Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged essar, intolerance, Media, modi, presstitute, radia, trolling, twitter
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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 viewers has become fiercely competitive. We, as consumers of news have become increasingly laid back and … Continue reading
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 witness to a similar incident, where a pair of journalists ganged up upon someone, … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Military
Tagged correspondents, defence, journalists, Media, reporters, social media, twitter
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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 the power of an ordinary man”, seriously. Or maybe its the other way around, and he … Continue reading
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 indicator of popular sentiment prevailing in the country. That it happened on a day when … Continue reading
Posted in Aam Aadmi, Agitation, Common man, Corruption, Democracy, Elections
Tagged Aam Aadmi, corruption, Government, Jantarmantar, Kejriwal, Media, politics
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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 constitution guarantees freedom of speech. But when the first son-in-law of the country calls it a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogitorial, Common man, Corruption, Cyber, Media, National Issues, Politics
Tagged banana republic, censorship, common man, facebook, freedom of speech, mango man, Media, new media
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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 dominating the front pages and prime time slots for an unbearably long … Continue reading
Posted in Blogitorial, COAS, Media, Military, Values
Tagged Age row, Media, morale, motivation, spin doctors
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