mainstream media - Different Truths

September 19, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Development, Human Rights, Mass Media

Media Literacy: A Need for Development of India

There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting ‘public service journalism’. Most organisations are lost in their need...

June 20, 2018
IPA Service
Mass Media

Fake News: The Octopus in the Newsroom

The hard fact these days of impact journalism and paid news is that perception managers run newsrooms, not newspersons; and journalists get to become ‘made guys’ when they’re promoted...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Dissent, Politics, World

Fifty Years after May Revolt, France is Boiling Again: Formation of a Popular Front is on Agenda

Millions of people across France are reliving these momentous events of half a century ago in the most appropriate way: by downing tools and taking to the streets. Once...

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Karnataka: The Flip-Flops and Ping-Pong

All but one exit poll point to a hung assembly. Only the Today’s Chanakya poll puts the BJP in a majority: 120 seats. And the Axis-India Today poll places...

April 27, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations

Indians Suffer no Amnesia over Doklam

Indians, however, should not get carried away by the change of heart of China, forget that the Chinese are by nature ‘double-standards’. The stiletto-tipped dragon’s tail can twist around...

April 10, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Smriti Irani is in Choppy Internet Seas: Packs Online Media Panel with Babus

Smriti Irani tried to hang the mainstream media with the accreditation sword citing fake news. But ‘fake news’ is double-edged. It bites both ways and Irani got bitten hard....

April 5, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Legal Issues, Wild Life

Salman Khan Finally Attains Veergati, Goes to Jail: A Serial Offender who always gets his Freedom

To date, “serial offender” Salman Khan has been convicted in several cases but in all of them, he eased to freedom as easily as a worm from a sticky...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Irani Circular and a Government Running Scared but I&B Minister Persisting with Filmy Style

The Modi-led NDA government was in a hot-and-sour soup, spicy to the tongue of Modi detractors like Shourie, thanks to Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, who overnight sought...

April 3, 2018
Kabir Deb
Education & Career, Opinion

Who is Slamming Education and Suppressing Counter-Narrative?

A healthy debate is a rarity among the present generation. The sole reason is that a debate requires two sets of people with two different mindsets but with a...

April 1, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Economy, Politics

Democracy in Danger: FRCA Amended Retrospectively; Has India that is Bharat Already Lost the Plot

The amended Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FRCA) contains the seeds that can sow the beginnings of a take-over by any foreign power sooner than later but also smacks of...

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