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Even the bots on Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle have fun on Sunday
If you follow @narendramodi on Twitter, it is like buying a ticket in time travel. The number of ‘likes’ can go up and down by hundreds in a matter of …
Bloomberg exposes Facebook’s role in ‘The Narendra Modi Project’
Unless you were blind as a dead bat, it was obvious that there was something murky behind Narendra Modi‘s sudden and obscene embrace of digital technology while resurrecting himself. After …
What Manmohan Singh should really be doing
As bad news oozes even from newspapers dedicated to making readers feel good—as growth falls, jobs vanish, stock markets tank, the rupee plunges, investors flee, gold prices rise, the deficit …
POLL: Rahul Gandhi vs Narendra Modi in 2014?
The contours of the next general election are becoming ever more clearer with the expected “elevation” of Rahul Gandhi as the vice-president of the Congress. Given the repeated rumours on …
Status Update: Shoot (or block) the messenger
Mail Today cartoonist, R. Prasad, salutes the geniuses in the Indian government using the trouble in Assam to play around with Facebook and Twitter, including by reportedly blocking the IDs …
An open letter to Aamir Khan from a Kannadiga
VASANT SHETTY pens a letter to Aamir Khan on the undemocratic ban on the dubbed version of his Sunday morning TV show Satyamev Jayate programme from being shown on Kannada …
6 questions Rahul Gandhi still hasn’t answered
If you listen closely to the breeze blowing through the capital’s vineyards, the year of the lord two-thousand twelve is the year when a not-so-young man will become the “fifth …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Infosys a ‘body shop’?
The supermarket author turned columnist Chetan Bhagat has hit Infosys where it hurts most by calling the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka a “bodyshopping” company, in response to N.R. Narayana …
Swamy, Diggy & the stereotyping of the innocent
We live in an era of unabashed competitive communalism. Behind every terror attack, Hindutva hit squads and “Internet Hindus” find the ghosts and stick figures of the Indian Mujahideen or …
What she means is her portfolio, but she could…
The Twitter bug bites the newly sworn-in minister of Karnataka, Shobha Karandlaje, in a Freudian sort of way. What the controversial MLA from Yeshwanthpur probably means is that she has …
If you don’t die in a tragedy, you are a nobody?
Death—ordinary, unglamourous, “smalltown” death—increasingly catches the English media on the wrong foot. Unlike “26/11”, in which almost as many people were killed in the Mangalore air crash, you do not …
Just one question I’m dying to ask Nithyananda
Nearly a week after a crystal clear video of his achievement of “life bliss” with the one-time actress Ranjitha took him to the apex of Twitter, YouTube and Google, the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Right to bar foreign journos?
The Great Wall between India and China is not made of bricks and mortar; it is made of freedom and liberty. Any debate, any discussion, anywhere, on the superpowers-to-be is …
Tweet, tweet, who’s there? Ghulam Nubbyazz
With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …
Who is this man who has S.M. Krishna’s left ear?
If S.M. Krishna‘s appointment as the Union external affairs minister in the new UPA government was a bit of a surprise, even more surprising has been Krishna’s appointment of a …
12 things no one’s telling us about namma Nandu
Nandan Nilekani‘s appointment as the head of the national ID card project has been greeted with the same seriousness that an appointment to the Vatican would have received. Sure, it’s …
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