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#MediaRumble: Abhinandan Sekhri in conversation with Ajit Mohan

In this session at The Media Rumble, Abhinandan Sekhri speaks to Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director, India, at Facebook. They discuss the evolution of online audio and video platforms and where both are headed. How will the emergence of these platforms impact bigger players in negotiating divergent international…

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A review of NL Hafta by Jayesh, Sabba, Jay & others

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Challenging the institutionalised ‘common sense’ of India’s political discourse

Terms of discourse, much like terms of trade, are favourable and unfavourable to some. The dominant position in setting these terms, as held by the Left in India’s academic institutions and a major section of the English media, led to an unchallenged common sense. As a result, the rival political…

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Why Facebook’s recent purge is problematic to the core

Facebook just did a Thanos-esque move on April 1st, snapped its fingers, and deleted a bunch of pages and accounts that were either engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ or ‘civic spam’. These removals were specifically targeted to India and Pakistan.

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China to destroy three lakh maps that show Arunachal as part of India

The two countries have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control.

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Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala’s new book chronicles change and continuity in India’s electoral scene

There is an inescapable lure of nostalgia when reflecting on elections with someone who, over the last 40 years, has almost become a national habit as India tracked, dissected and predicted poll results. In doing all this, Prannoy Roy has worn his scholarship lightly in TV studios. No mean feat…

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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 104: Gully Boy, Period, the Oscars and more

In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Ankur Pathak, entertainment editor at Huffington Post. They discuss Gully Boy, Period. End of Sentence., the Oscar awards and more. They start off with Gully Boy, with Abhinandan asking Ankur what worked for him in the movie.…

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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 100: Thackeray, JLF and more

In the 100th episode of Awful and Awesome, our hosts Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen go live to talk about the best and worst of pop-culture. They discussed Thackeray, the new Firstpost advertisement, Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Jaipur Literature Festival and a lot more.The conversation begins…

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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 98: The Accidental Prime Minister, Uri: The Surgical Strike & more

In the latest episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Abhinandan is in conversation with Mayank Shekhar, entertainment head at Mid Day. The duo reviews The Accidental Prime Minister, Uri: The Surgical Strike and Gillette’s latest commercial. They also discuss the portrayal of politics in Indian films, the evolution of film production in…

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IL&FS staffers stay captive in Ethiopia as bank raises hurdle

IL&FS employees in Ethiopia have also alleged that the Indian embassy was completely ineffective.

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The Master of Spin Speaks

On a January night during the 11 pm slot in 1992, cricket followers in India watched a young, overweight and blonde-haired Shane Warne for the first time in action on Doordarshan‘s Test Match highlights. It used to be a 30-minute package in times when cable television was yet to make…

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Shashi Tharoor’s book on Modi is a wasted opportunity

A sense of history can easily be the casualty in times when tweets running out of characters make way for newspaper op-eds, and books emerge from op-eds running out of space. Any exercise in sizing up our times and its key figures has to tame a few disadvantages if it…

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Number of political parties increased two-fold in the last 10 years, crosses the 2000 mark

While India is being touted as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, there is something else that is growing faster than the Indian Economy; at least in the last 10 years. The number of political parties in India has been growing at a rapid pace without any…

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How the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant

It was May 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party having won 282 seats in Lok Sabha, Narendra Damodardas Modi was unequivocally elected as the Prime Minister of India. He got out of a vehicle at the main entrance of Parliament and got down on his knees to touch his head…

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Did Steven Spielberg plagiarise Satyajit Ray’s The Alien?

Steven Spielberg is widely regarded as the world’s most successful filmmaker thanks to his bankability at the box office. So far his films have grossed a total sum of approximately USD 10 billion worldwide. One of the early successes in Spielberg’s career was ET: The Extra-Terrestrial which he made in…

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The new Babu in an exam-loving nation

There is an interesting conversation at the beginning of 1988 classic English, August, the debut novel by 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee. The novel begins with a chat in a car between young IAS probationer Agastya Sen and his Yale-alumnus friend Dhrubo.

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#Iftar4all: The not so political iftar

On May 28 last year, during the month of Ramazan, writer Nazia Erum posed a question on her Facebook wall, asking how many of her friends had attended an iftar before. An overwhelming majority said no. This got her thinking and within a few days, she, along with a few…

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Respecting women’s rights is a guarantee to reduce maternal and child mortality: Dr Michelle Bachelet

Dr Michelle Bachelet, (left-wing revolutionary imprisoned by the military dictator Augusto Pinochet), two-time president of Chile (2006-2010, 2014-2018), first Executive Director of UN Women, took over as the Chair of the Board of Partnership for Maternal, New Born and Child Health (PMNCH) speaks to ICFJ Fellow Biraj Swain on the…

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The curious tale of two FICCI press statements

Two contrasting statements issued by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) over the increase in repo rate by 25 basis points by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday became a flashpoint of controversy.

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Why England tour is Virat Kohli’s Federer Moment

Early this year Michael Holding, the fast bowling legend and one of the most respected voices in world cricket, said something in midst of a test series between India and South Africa. Speaking on Indian skipper Virat Kohli, who had just scored an outstanding 153 in a losing cause in…

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The racism chronicle

The film that took Akshun Abhi, all of 24 years, and the team of 7 Rounds to Cannes is based on last year’s Kansas racial killing in which a 51-year-old Navy veteran shot an Indian techie who was enjoying a drink with a friend in a pub.“Suddenly, this man walked…

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Will it be Messi versus the rest?

If Russia is experiencing the frenzy before the much-awaited FIFA World Cup, the enthusiasm of Indians is no less. In fact, with Russia hosting the event, a record number of Indians have bought tickets to watch the event live in their friendly neighbourhood.

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Serving creativity: The Chaiwala who has written over twenty five books

In front of Hindi Bhawan at ITO, one of the busiest localities of Delhi, you will always find a crowd of people gathered around a small shack on the footpath to have a cup of the famous tea made by Laxman Rao, the most popular tea seller of the area.But…

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A review of NL Hafta by Rajkumar, Prakash, Rajeev and Harsh

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Past imperfect

Last week, Narendra Modi came under public scrutiny: after his claim that no Congress leader visited Bhagat Singh while he was in jail was debunked. While the readers of publications like Alt News and Boom enjoy the advantage of a team of fact checkers, the electorate being addressed by the…

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