“Narendra Modi becomes India Inc poster boy”, Economic Times, Link Today’s cartoon is about leading corporate billionaires Anil Ambani and Bharti Mittal signalling their thumbs up for Narendra Modi as PM of India. Modi, as widely believed, is accused of having looked the other way when a systematic pogrom was unleashed against Muslims, consuming 2000 [...]
As a media researcher one looks at how public discourse is being shaped, particularly concerning issues of public policy and how facts, lies, spin, and propaganda is used to further ideologically-driven agendas, all the while couching it is in the language of reason and argumentation. Take the case of public healthcare. Economic-liberals (or neo-liberals if [...]
Politico.com, in a story 18 Dec 2008 reported that Indians were amongst donors to Bill Clinton’s foundation:
A regularly updated resource on the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2008. From a collection of media, academic, and blog sources.
Headline: “Accord with India to fight terror together: FIA, CBI to work in concert; visa regime to be liberalised “ This appeared in Dawn, 26 November 2008. Oops! South Asian ironies I guess. Link here.
My response to Vamsee Juluri’s excellent essay in The Hoot. Read it here.
For those who would like to appropriate Pinter, a reminder of his words in the last days of his life… and his usage of the Nobel platform to launch a scathing attack on unilateralism, naked power, and national interests. Using the example of United States foreign policy under presidents ranging from Reagan to Bush, he [...]
While the Indian Express, Times of India, and Hindustan Times largely focused on aftermath of the 26 November Mumbai terrorism incident, The Hindu had a rather interesting front page story about Mayawati promising “reservation for the economically weaker sections among the forward communities”. When one connects the dots with Rahul Gandhi’s discourse about the poor [...]
An earlier post “NIA, UAPA Acts: media editorials” looked at how key Indian newspapers (Times of India, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Mint) editorialised the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. After the Act was passed by the parliament, all newspapers barring Mint and The Hindu welcomed the passage of the act. The two dissenting newspapers [...]
Rahul Gandhi invokes Indira and Rajiv Gandhi in his Amethi speech (courtesy Times Now, Link). Will it be enough to take on Mayawati? मेरा सपना किसी एक व्यक्ती का नहीं है, हिंदुस्तान में लाखों करोडों लोग हैं जिनका यही सपना है और मेरा सपना यह है कि मुझे ऐसा इक बच्चा, या सुनीता का घर [...]
