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The 12 controversies that Indian Twitterati loved in 2018

From ‘Lady Doritos’ to fitness challenges, from ‘Urban Naxals’ to ‘bird droppings’, here are 12 controversies that set Twitter alight in the year gone by.

The arrogance and ignorance of Jack Dorsey in India, writes Barkha Dutt

Hope Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde got a good – and educative – taste of their own medicine.

Brahmins of Twitter are feeling like Jews under Nazi Germany, thanks to Jack Dorsey

Author Advaita Kala’s opinion — that ‘constant hitting out against Brahmins’ was akin to ‘what Nazis did to Jews’ — found echoes in Congress & across Twitter.

Twitter’s apology a cop out or was CEO Jack Dorsey wrong to hold Brahmin-patriarchy poster?

A photo of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey holding a poster that said ‘Smash Brahminal Patriarchy’ triggered social media outrage after Right-wing ideologues called it...

Jack Dorsey wants to ‘smash Brahminical patriarchy’, triggers Twitter outrage

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared in a photograph with women journalists holding this placard, irking Right-wing ideologues who called it ‘hate speech’.

Why young Indians aren’t on Twitter

On his India trip, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sought to pitch Twitter as a platform to effect change, but India's young swear by other social networks.

Trolls & fake news likely on the agenda when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey meets PM Modi

Jack Dorsey is on a week-long visit to India, and is also set to discuss with PM Modi how Twitter can better engage with the government.

Google’s Sundar Pichai to be grilled on allegations that conservatives are censored online

Sundar Pichai will meet American lawmakers this week even as Google denies it makes content decisions based on politics.

Social networks set to face more regulation as political pressures mount

To manipulate public opinion and meddle in elections, govts will inevitably monitor Facebook and Twitter, says Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai slammed for refusing to testify in US Senate

Google's testimony is part of the US Senate Intelligence Committee's hearings on the Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. 

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.