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HOW TRANSPARENT IS THE FACEBOOK TRANSPARENCY REPORT?
Image credit: Shutterstock Facebook has released its international transparency report for the first six months of 2014, and, expectedly, it doesn’t make India look like the beacon of free speech and...
View ArticleCOMING SOON – NL INTERVIEW WITH RAJDEEP SARDESAI
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KISS OF LOVE: MORE THAN JUST LIP SERVICE
Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which is often invoked – or at least used as a pretext – by moral policing groups has an uncanny similarity to Section 66 A of the Information Technology...
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WHY THE INDIAN TREASURE TROVE ACT ISN’T A LEGAL TREASURE
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View ArticleNL INTERVIEWS RAJDEEP SARDESAI – PART 1
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RAJDEEP CAUGHT OUT? OR IS HE TOO BIG TO FAIL?
If one is honest about the riveting Newslaundry interview of Rajdeep Sardesai , one cannot help but draw the following conclusion: Only Kissinger could have air-brushed his crimes better. This simple,...
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HOW DEMOCRATIC IS COMPULSORY VOTING?
Even as the Gujarat state government makes voting compulsory in elections to local self-government bodies, constitutional and legal experts have opined that the move is against the basic tenet of...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #6
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YES, WE ARE INDIANS BUT WE ARE ALSO MORE
Like many others around me, I am a Hindu. When I hear the Aachman mantra followed by the Om vishwaani deva savitur duri taani paraa suva chant, I can recite along fairly comfortably. The words roll...
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HERE’S HOW TOI AND HT BURY THE NEWS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE
What influences or clouds editorial judgment? While The Times of India (TOI) published, pulled down and reworked stories on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Varanasi that could best be called a...
View ArticleRAJDEEP’S SARASWAT TWEET: NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF?
Panaji: After attracting controversy following a fracas between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters at the Madison Square garden in September, senior editor and television anchor Rajdeep Sardesai...
View ArticleSHOULD AND CAN ALL RELIGIONS, GENDERS AND COMMUNITIES BE REPRESENTED IN THE...
Should and can all religions, genders and communities be represented in the Cabinet? I just read a piece “Yes, We are Indians but we are also more” by Abhinandan Sekhri of Newslaundry, where he very...
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FLYING IN THE FACE OF LAW
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JOURNALISTS BEAR THE BRUNT OF HARYANA POLICE CRACKDOWN
If you thought Indian news channels today would do a Zero Dark Thirty and show you live visuals of a crackdown on a heavily-guarded safe house, you were in for some serious disappointment. It wasn’t...
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SOFT IN THE HEAD: PUNE ACTIVISTS AND MLAS OBJECT TO HELMET RULE
If you heard that 16 Indians die every hour on Indian roads, you’d probably do everything you possibly could to be safer. One group in Pune though, sees things very differently. While common sense and...
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BIAS AT THE HEART OF COUNTER-TERRORISM IN INDIA?
Photo credit to: Ajmal Aramam No other issue perhaps has occupied centre stage the way terrorism has in global discourse. Even so, there is very little discussion on how flawed counter-terrorism...
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THE HINDU GETS IT WRONG: MATHEW SAMUEL HAS NOT BEEN ‘SENT TO JAIL’
Today’s Delhi edition of The Hindu carried a report titled “Tehelka journalist’s bail cancelled, sent to jail”. The journalist being referred to in the story is Mathew Samuel who is now the Managing...
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WILL THE LOTUS BLOOM IN KASHMIR VALLEY?
Early this week, newspaper readers in Kashmir woke up to a first: front-page advertisements of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his election message —...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #7
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