While Facebook has over 26 crore users in India and Twitter has 77.5 lakh, Instagram is becoming the social media of choice for young Indians to express their views.
Indians have ceased to be ‘argumentative’; instead, they have started surrendering. There’s no intellectual debate; only status-seeking, clever discourse.
The very popular, but quite cynical, perception...
It used to be Tatas and Birlas in the loose political rhetoric of the 1970s and the 1980s. Today, it is Adani and Ambani in the heated Lok Sabha election campaign.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.
Whatever the medium of choice, fear and hate cannot become the dominant emotion for India’s national discourse. It will start paying a diminished dividend for its authors, lower our image and prestige in the world. Consider the assessments President Trump and his team would have carried back about their new comprehensive global strategic partner.
Whatever the medium of choice, fear and hate cannot become the dominant emotion for India’s national discourse. It will start paying a diminished dividend for its authors, lower our image and prestige in the world. Consider the assessments President Trump and his team would have carried back about their new comprehensive global strategic partner.