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Who's at 'Jihad'? : 'Love Jihad' and the Judge in Kerala
It looked as if the controversy over ‘Love Jihad’ ( ‘jihad defined as ‘war by other means’) had blown over with state authorities in Kerala and Karnatake denying that su… more →
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Who's at 'Jihad'? : 'Love Jihad' and the Judge in Kerala
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jdevika wrote 2 hours ago: It looked as if the controversy over ‘Love Jihad’ ( ‘jihad defined as ‘war b … more →
The hype, confirmed.
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lindyborer wrote 1 day ago: Study: At Its Worst, H1N1 Only Slightly More Serious Than Seasonal Flu At the risk of sounding terri … more →
Krauthammer nails it
lindyborer wrote 1 month ago: Again. Fox Wars … more →
Californian kids escape gaming restrictions
lauracrawford wrote 1 month ago: The US Supreme Court has effectively ended a push by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to ban violent … more →
A Face Towel in Allahabad, 1984
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote 1 month ago: (Published with the title, The Actor’s Studio, in Outlook, Volume XLIX, No. 41, October 19, 20 … more →
Violence in Consumerism's Own Country
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jdevika wrote 2 months ago: As the stories of the DHRM and those of the successful negotiations with which the Chengara land str … more →
Somebody's thinking of the children
lauracrawford wrote 2 months ago: Though so far this blog has been an exercise in cynicism regarding all things policy related, today … more →
More on Murder from Kerala
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jdevika wrote 2 months ago: These are happy days in which everyone in Kerala wants too settle the land dispute at Chengara. A ha … more →
A lesson on political equivocation from Thomas Friedman
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Jason Mittell wrote 2 months ago: Tonight in my Television & American Culture course, I screened Buying the War, an excellent Bill … more →
Left 4 Dead (again)
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lauracrawford wrote 2 months ago: Once again Australian authorities are at loggerheads regarding classification of a new video game. P … more →
Ab aap police station se samachar suniye
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Nivedita Menon wrote 2 months ago: (And now, the news read from the police station) I am absolutely appalled by the new levels of uneth … more →
Everything that's fit to print...
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lindyborer wrote 2 months ago: …but isn’t by the soon-to-be obsolete mainstream media. (NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The Washingto … more →
Beaten, tortured, forced to do drugs, wrists slashed with razors
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Shivam Vij wrote 2 months ago: There have been so many ragging incidents coming out in the news, but the media is done with ragging … more →
Watching Films Blindfolded
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Lawrence Liang wrote 3 months ago: (Published in Himal, September 2009) Sometime in 1996, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh received an … more →
Search No More
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Lawrence Liang wrote 3 months ago: A new search engine ImHalal.com promises a more spiritually cleansed experience of the internet ( … more →
Jailing Journalists: Pradeep Jeganathan
Nivedita Menon wrote 3 months ago: This is a guest post by PRADEEP JEGANATHAN from Colombo. The sentencing of J.S. Tissainayagam is dee … more →
Panic and politics
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lauracrawford wrote 3 months ago: When appointed to office in March 2009, Victoria’s new Chief Commissioner of Police revealed immedia … more →
The ('Quotation') Gangs of Kerala
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jdevika wrote 3 months ago: The media in Kerala is in a tizzy these days over ‘quotation’ gangs and their influence … more →
The 'Why' of media violence...
lauracrawford wrote 3 months ago: Since Aristotle first coined the theory of Katharsis (c.335 BC), in which he claimed that viewing a … more →
