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...
While we describe the 21st century as the “Information Age” with the boom in news and information bombarding us through its various ‘superhighways’, we find, quite regretfully, that the media houses are killing themselves through uncalled for internal squabbles. The editor of The Economic an...
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...
