The #Tehelka Consensus
Extraordinary events ought to be documented somewhere, and when it comes to a media consensus, the secondary chroniclers of our era are bloggers. So I am looking at this moment […]
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Bull
Open letter to BJP National Spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi
Dear Meenakshi Lekhi, An ardent supporter of BJP brought to my notice your statement on Cobrapost’s “The Stalkers” expose inviting me to “milk the bull” or some such term. I
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Spouting Vedanta, Modernity and tradition
When a “senior journalist who has written several books on development” abdicates either sanity or integrity or both and starts spouting propaganda that has been rejected by the people it
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Farmer suicides in India: Peddling anti-farmer bull shit
There is a category of journalists and publications which consistently publish seemingly scientific articles that are aimed at one or more of the following goals: Trivializing the problem of farmer
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Those torturous women
I get a lot of these myths about women. Astonishing, because women aren’t yet so rare that people can’t simply look around them and find out truths. Here goes. Women
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Holy Cow!
I have been thinking about this on and off beef debate raging in our country, and I realize it is a very complex, multi-dimensional thing. Each side of the
Do the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong? – Media disinformation in action at FirstPost
Recently, FirstPost, which is a kind of news media thing published an article titled “Why the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong” which ought to have been an informative thing
Debunking the “Misuse of Dowry Act” misogynist bandwagon
There is this group of men and women on the internet who seem to have a deep and abiding contempt for the Section 498A of the IPC – the Dowry
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Privatizing needs
Increasing privatization of necessities means citizens are forced to make purchases from private entities that are opaque to scrutiny and unaccountable to people. It is a permanent profit.