A recent report published by the Reuters Foundation in collaboration with Oxford University reveals that India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing markets for US-based technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. India’s Twitter users currently number at 26.7 million, and as of J...
Rehabilitation of the victims of human trafficking The initiative of Dr. H.P Kanoria, Chairman SREI Foundation Avijit Kumar and Bikramjit Sen met B. V. Chandrasekhar, DC DD Special, Kolkata Police, at his residence on November 9, 2017 to discuss the progress made on rehabilitating the resc...
Between the devil and the deep sea.The murder of Gauri Lankesh confirms the crisis journalism is facing today: on one hand, you submit to power and lose your credibility; and on the other, you defy and get killed. A report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that so far ( calcu...
The Supreme Court’s 547 page-long judgement on privacy is not just a legal landmark; it’s a learned document, well-referenced, on how information technology today, if not properly controlled, can be a palpable threat to human life and freedom. The judgement on one hand has reversed its earlier p...
Plato banished the poets and writers from his ‘ideal’ world of the Republic because they were ‘liars’. But the ‘orators’ – who turned out to be the politicians and parliamentarians – were allowed an entry. We wonder what Plato’s stand would be today in the 21st century ‘republic...
The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan advised the journalists in a meeting in Delhi the other day to avoid ‘unpleasant truths’ and write only ‘nice things’. True, today’s paper is full of news ofviolence, corruption, communal hatred, terrorism, and rape. You hardly find a ‘positive’ st...
It took a long time for journalism to enter into the portals of the university. Journalists have been described as ‘scatter-brained’ and ‘muck rakers’ by western scholars and in the late nineteenth century, only one or two American universities had agreed to allow jou...