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The writer has headed and taught at schools of media and communication

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for...

The social media has two broad roles the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous...

23 Feb 2021 4:48 AM IST

Work from home is taking a toll on the mind and body.

Beyond Covid: Towards a new normal' at work

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing these very companies to reredefine their offices as post-Covid workplaces

18 Nov 2020 1:44 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | The perils' of euphoria: Govt messaging...

In a communicative framework, how has our government disseminated public messages during this crisis, and to what...

24 Oct 2020 11:29 AM IST

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sept 2020 8:12 PM IST

An Indian Finance Ministry employee walks carrying files outside the ministry building on April 20, 2020. An increasing number of officers are opting to work from home amid concerns over the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (AP)

Virtual working is just an option for post-corona times

What Covid-19 may indeed accelerate is a world that offers the option between physical and virtual ways of functioning

24 April 2020 8:31 PM IST

Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Will socialist' Bernie or moderate' Biden be best bet to take on...

Whether Donald Trump will return or not depends on whether voters consider winnability as the most important factor for...

7 March 2020 7:07 AM IST

By definition, liberal education and interdisciplinarity are joined at the hip, and that augurs well for the need for sets of complex competencies.

NEP draft 2019 might be progressive, but is its liberal' focus too...

For better or worse, a new reflexive nationalism is arising as the concept of globalisation is in decline.

5 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Syed Shujaat Bukhari

Inconvenient truths: Targeting the messenger is up

The correlation between journalistic killing and journalistic freedom is unmistakable, but it is not as obvious as it...

3 Jan 2019 1:17 AM IST

Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb

How pseudo-morality' blurs public discourse

The now-infamous remarks smack of the familiar discrimination of skin colour, eye colour, religion and gender.

4 May 2018 4:46 AM IST

Yet the universities that achieved the NAAC grading also somewhat paradoxically evidence the reality that serious-minded educators can indeed succeed within a given framework.

Deregulating varsities: Quality is the real issue

Currently, most of our universities suffer from uniformity, which does not offer the competitive edge.

26 March 2018 4:24 AM IST

US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Photo: AP)

Disrupting the myth of objectivity

Our media still shies away from expressing bias, while its counterparts in many countries do not.

17 Oct 2017 6:33 AM IST

The communication is in line with the decision announced by President Donald Trump recently, which was one of his key electoral promises. (Photo: AP)

Trump's Twitterification: Truth, facts & beliefs

The Twitterification of Trump's public discourse may have marked a degeneration in electioneering.

5 Sept 2017 12:53 AM IST