D'Press 16 Jan 2009
By Kishore Budha • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Commercialisation, Corporate Communications, Political Communications
“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 people in key cities of Gujarat. Critics have compared the situation with the capitalism’s role in the growth of Nazi Germany. Here the cartoon plays on the symbolism of capitalism (in a commodity box), Auschwitz, and Gujarat.
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Kishore Budha is one of the co-founders of Subaltern Media and the founder-editor of the peer-reviewed Open Access journal Wide Screen. He holds a PhD in media and communications studies from the University of Leeds, UK and has professional experience in print journalism, internet news, and public relations industries. His interests include Critical Theories of Media and Communication, Semiotics, Transnational Communication, Film industry & production, Film theory, Film and history, Communications Policy, Visual Culture, Communication Technologies, Web media and Communication
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Hi Kishore, Off-topic: why don’t you try to have an embed feature for your cartoons? That way it will help people to embed your cartoons in their blogs or sites.
Grateful for the heads up Jo. Implemented!
This should certainly be a sign of the demise of democracy , and take-over by corporate dictated democracy as implemented successfully in the US. We may be even presented with the choice of a two party democracy by the corporates paving for the way for a fascist model…. Yes , corporates have started dictating terms explicitly..The projection of Modi, the guarantor of a suppressed/enslaved workforce cannot be anything but a darling to the corporates (media included)
The post on this blog about halan of outlook quitting (over pressure to do as the men in suits dictate) i think hides more than it tells. at least anil ambani and bharti mittal are honest about their narrow mindedness. they are not interested in democracy, they are only interested in returns on investment. the story about halan is even worse as it is only one example of how we are being deceived on a daily basis by the media (all in the name of democracy).