A country’s media industry scene gives its civilisation and culture!How our media sector is doing? The size, ownership, funding and the freedoms a media enjoys decides the purity of the media service. Not all countries enjoy great reputations in the media industry. We, in India, inherited a great media tradition from our British colonial association….
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Print media and the digital media in a Covid dictated world.
Learning the online work culture!It is a totally new experience!It seems a long way indeed! One new learning is that sometimes big changes, be it high tech or even simple things come not by inventions and innovations they seem to come in a very sudden, brutal physical changes or happenings. The coming of the Covid…
What the New Year holds for the world? And for India?
Whom to look for advice and wisdom? The past year has gone. The New Year, 2020, is very much on us. Also, the New Year is once more, full of hopes and lot of trepidations. The US onslaught on Iran has complicated international affairs and has many other issues of urgency, not only on Indian…
Why democratic behaviour not yet a universal norm?
New-type dictators, autocrats and authoritarians still abound! The Global Democracy Index in 2017 places India from 32 to 42nd rank analysing 165 states. Norway and Sweden comes top. US ranked 21st! In India we have to practice ethical behaviour, truth, personal integrity and moral courage to make India a great democracy! Just recently there was…
The future of free media!
The idea of media freedom in a constrained atmosphere! Is India a truly a free country? A liberal and open society? Such questions are not asked. Not because those who are tempted to ask don’t ask, they are constrained. The other day when a national newspaper celebrated its 140th anniversary its publisher wrote and pointed…
Corporate Social Responsibility?
Or, carrying favour with the high and mighty? We once asked a Corporate heavy-weight, and a lady at that, who sat at the high table of Sonia Gandhi for an ad for this media publication! The lady was not only negative, she seemed to have dismissed our request in a nonchalant manner! This has been…
India’s healthcare sector and much else!
We need to sensitise the public opinion and public policies with greater doses of ground level realities! The growing inequities, injustices and falling sensitivities make life for the common man more and more miserable! In many social sector policies, like education, health, why even other sectors that address issues for weaker sections and disadvantaged sectors…
Where are the intellectuals in India?
Do the elite society play any notable role in the public life of India? In the Western societies, including USA and Western Europe, in France and other liberal democracies there are who are commonly called public intellectuals. They are either academics or even philosophers or literary figures who speak out openly for the common public…