As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.
Mrinal Pande was the keynote speaker for the Festival of Arts at Delhi's India International Centre. Her address, titled ‘Depth Sounding Our Unseen Histories’, unravelled the history of inequality.
Rajeev Pratap Singh's pregnant wife says that in the days before his death, he appeared disturbed & frustrated after getting threat calls to pull down videos from his YouTube channel.
Rollo Romig, in conversation with journalist and author Neha Dixit at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi, revealed that there was actually a hit list with Gauri Lankesh's name.
Pakistani journalist’s condolence message—critical of India's reaction to the attack—ended with ‘Allah o Akbar’, leading to a fiery debate in a WhatsApp group of South Asian Women in Media.
At the launch of Chander Mohan & Jyotsna Mohan’s book, ‘Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper’, a panel traced the Urdu daily’s journey back to 1919, when it raised voice against British rule.
China has asked Press Trust of India reporter KJM Varma to leave Beijing by the end of the month. The latest expulsion has left Indian media organisations in a blind state.
The Government of India recognises Ladakh as one of the most important living centres of Buddhist culture in the world. We are committed to safeguarding its unique cultural traditions.
Post-2022 as AI has spread in developed economies, it is leading to another round of polarisation—the middle class jobs are being lost in offices rather than in factories.
The fifth S-400 air defence system is undergoing various stages of production trials, and will be delivered by November-December this year, it is learnt.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
The internet has turned making “deep” points into a full-blown industry. It’s reached a point where journalists and commentators basically treat every local influencer drama as raw material to show off how smart they are. They just plug in whatever buzzwords are trendin….class, politics, whatever, and use it to “flex and justify” their intellectual credibility.
The actual incident doesn’t even matter; it’s just a convenient hook for arguments they already wanted to make. This “forced aura” in this article is pretty easily seen. People aren’t really talking about Pujarini; they’re using her as a prop to talk about themselves and their own ideas because she checks the right boxes.
It’s a weird cycle: the more trivial the original post is, the harder these “experts” have to work to make it sound significant. Eventually, you have a village girl’s Instagram carrying the weight of the country’s entire social history.
We’ve lost all common sense. Most influencer beef is just petty and unremarkable. Not every minor squabble is some massive sociological event. The gap between what actually happened and the over-analysis piled on top of it is huge—it tells you everything about the people writing the commentary and almost nothing about reality.
The internet has turned making “deep” points into a full-blown industry. It’s reached a point where journalists and commentators basically treat every local influencer drama as raw material to show off how smart they are. They just plug in whatever buzzwords are trendin….class, politics, whatever, and use it to “flex and justify” their intellectual credibility.
The actual incident doesn’t even matter; it’s just a convenient hook for arguments they already wanted to make. This “forced aura” in this article is pretty easily seen. People aren’t really talking about Pujarini; they’re using her as a prop to talk about themselves and their own ideas because she checks the right boxes.
It’s a weird cycle: the more trivial the original post is, the harder these “experts” have to work to make it sound significant. Eventually, you have a village girl’s Instagram carrying the weight of the country’s entire social history.
We’ve lost all common sense. Most influencer beef is just petty and unremarkable. Not every minor squabble is some massive sociological event. The gap between what actually happened and the over-analysis piled on top of it is huge—it tells you everything about the people writing the commentary and almost nothing about reality.