Experts weigh in on whether Twitter trolling has become a part of the right-wing culture. The recent victim was the BJP’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. She helped an inter-faith couple with their passports. For this, Swaraj was viciously attacked by trolls, many of whom claim to be BJP supporters, and accused of ‘Muslim appeasement’.
By Sunday afternoon, ‘no’ led ‘yes’ on Sushma Swaraj's poll asking users if they supported abusive trolling.
New Delhi: It’s been nearly a week since...
The latest ‘National Interest’ column, published 23 June, has elicited backlash and support in equal measure.
New Delhi: When he argued that the aggressive, ‘my-way-or-the-highway’ line...
Sunil Chhetri’s Twitter plea to fans and the full house in Mumbai only cement his status as the face of Indian football who transcends the sport in this cricket-crazy nation.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.