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Three Lessons To Learn From Dronaacharya

Dronaacharya was the victim of what we would today call a politically motivated disinformation campaign. The Pandav strategy had the classic characteristics of disinformation. Three takeaways for......

Toni Morrison: Despots won't lose control over media

'We all know nations that can be identified by the flight of writers from their shores.'These are regimes whose fear of unmonitored writing is justified because truth is trouble.'It is trouble for......

Expect record turnout in this election: Prannoy Roy

'Don't forget the BJP in the last election almost doubled its vote.''Even if they were not traditional BJP supporters, they were convinced about Mr Modi.''If the voter perceives that Mr Modi has......

Who says EVMs can be hacked?

'Although the Election Commission remains convinced about the EVM's integrity, as a fair umpire of the game it was necessary to travel the last mile to convince political players that the entire......

'Chanting Ambedkar's name makes Dalit leaders cross over to BJP'

'The BJP stems from the RSS that craves, notwithstanding its myriad camouflages, to re-establish their supremacist regime.''They believe in everything that India had in its ancient 'Vedic' past,......

Customers in limbo as banks, RBI thrash out differences

The RBI is not willing to ease its stance on tokenisation, insisting that payment facilitators cannot store customer card details. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The payments industry is......

Big concerns about the Aadhaar card

'There are requiring agencies under the law and these are going to use Aadhaar for authentication of various kinds – these can be anybody including a person, a private entity or the......

The kid who turned down $1 billion!

"I'm just lucky to be alive." Mark Zuckerberg, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of social-networking site Facebook, is talking about the time he came face-to-face with the barrel of a gun. It was......

This is the future of computing!

Jefferson Han, a pale, bespectacled engineer dressed in Manhattan black, faced the thousand or so attendees on the first day of TED 2006, the annual technology, entertainment, and design conference......

The puppet masters of viral marketing

He woke up in a pool of sweat, with bruises on his arms, his ankle badly swollen. He'd had another terrifying blackout, the kind he'd been experiencing ever since he began beta-testing Sega's......

No, Friends is Not The Best Sitcom Ever!

'The pride of the devoted Seinfeld fan is that he happens to love a show that doesn't take his love for granted, so that even on repeat viewings he is never really sure what directions an episode......

Heropanti 2 Review

Idiocy is the source of Heropanti 2's outdated thrills, observes Sukanya Verma. Ever wondered how it feels to be inside a washing machine? I regrettably found out while watching Heropanti 2, which......

Tamasha: Some genuine frights but too much orchestrated silliness

There are no real people in Tamasha -- there are only character-types written in little pink balloon-letters, all floating in cloudland, feels Sreehari Nair. The experience of watching......

Game of Thrones devotee? Score the characters!

The wise Imp or the Mother Dragon? Take your pick!The interweb has been abuzz with everything Game of Thrones ever since the television adaptation of G R R Martin's magnificent fantasy drama series......

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