Dear Readers and Contributors, Wish you a very Happy New Year 2021. May this year bring you Success, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity. Thank you for standing by us. Your support is our strength. May this new year bring hope and cheer to your lives. Yours Thankfully Siddharth Sehgal […]
Editorial
Editorial
Democracy, Dissent and Media
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal India is perhaps the only country in the world that pioneered the art of peaceful protest. Peaceful protest or Satyagraha, as phrased by Mahatma Gandhi, was a major modulus operandi of our freedom struggle, and yet, in this very country, peaceful protesters are labeled as […]
Why We Need Too Much Democracy?
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal A few days ago a top bureaucrat in government claimed and rued that we are too much of a democracy to have any reforms. Though he, later on, tried to clarify his stance, his statement actually reflects the mentality of the Indian political and bureaucratic […]
Why We Should Listen to Farmers?
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal In the past few days, the national capital has witnessed thousands of angry farmers protesting on the artillery highways of Delhi. Before I further ahead I would like to disclose that I am not a farmer and have little to no knowledge about farming but […]
The Congress and the Middle Class
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The Grand Old Party has yet another election debacle in Bihar and as the dirty in house laundry is being washed in public by Congress top brass, maybe as a voter belonging to the middle class, whom Congress has lost a long time ago, I […]
Journalists Lives Matter
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Why you should be concerned about the arrest of journalists? Even the ones well know as Godi or lapdog journalists. I am not saying that journalists are above the law but investigation or arrest should not have a tinge of revenge. India ranks abysmally 142nd […]
Bihar: Jobs, Vaccines and Other Promises
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Bihar elections have become a sort of cruel joke on people. Among the poll promises of jobs that aren’t there, the development that never happened, and the free vaccines that probably won’t come whichever party or alliance comes to power. The elections won’t change anything […]
Le Canard Enchaîné
by the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal If you’d look at our news media, you wouldn’t believe if you are seeing the news, the reality show or propaganda. Except for a handful of exceptions majority fall under the latter two. Though media had always been a chained duck in this country but […]
Hathras Rape: A Question on Our National Conscience
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal In our country, I have heard stories of atrocities and human rights violations in the past but never have I heard or expected such horror, bigotry, and criminal conduct that were so brazenly displayed by government officials in Hathras. The cover-up and prejudice that district […]
Data and Privacy in Indian Context
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The other day when a TV anchor read private messages of an actor in an investigation related to the drugs angle in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, it made me wonder like a lot of other shocked folks that you can read someone’s private […]