'...Because it has changed.' 'Participants are almost provoked to behave in a certain manner.'
'After many years of having to find new adjectives to say horrible, I realised I would rather write about things I want to write about.'
By sacrificing an important component of the right to free speech, we have strengthened the hands of the fundamentalists, the bigots and the publicity-seeking goondas. And of the hate-filled political establishment, points out Vir Sanghvi.
'Criticism? what's that. You know how quickly people change their opinions. So shanti rakho. Om Shanti Om.'
If you are a BJP backer, you'd ask why Modi and Shah would even bother about Rahul Gandhi and Congress. But they do. Because they are serious politicians who win elections. That's why their priority is to ensure Rahul cannot shed his 'Pappu' image, points Shekhar Gupta.
Chef and author Rakhee Vaswani talks about her passion for cooking, her daily struggles as a mompreneur and how she's spreading smiles through her recipes.
Every time we look at the Congress, its future, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, we find the situation more hopeless than even a few months earlier, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Billionaire Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter and fired the social media company's four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde. The New York Times said that Musk, the world's richest man, closed the deal to buy Twitter on Thursday. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report said that Musk "has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives". The Twitter executives who were fired include Agrawal, Gadde, chief financial officer Ned Segal and general counsel Sean Edgett.
'Today is about how spouses shit all over your childhood plans for an ideal marriage, or, in the very least, a marriage that wouldn't be anything like your parents'.'
Software major Wipro's chairman Rishad Premji on Thursday said social media platforms have integrated the world like never before and should be allowed to practice "responsive self-governance" to tackle the menace of hate and misinformation. Premji said technological developments on the digital and social media represent an incredibly powerful opportunity for betterment and the issues arising through its misuse need to be addressed immediately. "Technology, particularly digital and social media, have integrated the world as never before. "They've fostered human connections and solidarity across distances and barriers.
Discovering a way to deal with negative emotions is often the first step toward overcoming emotional eating.
The Congress hit out at the BJP, demanding the immediate arrest of those who have defamed India at the international level instead of enacting a "drama of action".
'Chup is the work that I'm most satisfied with; it won't bore me or make me cringe later.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
Just how are showbiz folk spending their time? We tell you.
Because it costs a shit-ton of money. Full disclosure: I won't accept a wedding ring that costs Rs 1L or less. But Rs 1L and more seems like a LOT of money. Enough for me to think about better ways to spend it. Stocks? Mutual Funds? SIPs? *GASP* NFTs and Crypto?
'The way the society functions, I don't know, they are more concerned about animals than humans.'
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'My producer earns, I earn. It's a win-win situation.'
Lalit Modi had gained in prominence and it was all evident from his high-flying lifestyle
'More than 114 cases have been registered for spreading fake messages, rumours and fake news on WhatsApp.' 'People on various groups are reporting such crimes.' 'The most heartening development is people are now not tolerating such things.'
How a trainee copywriter turned nto the most popular girl on the Internet.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Ashwin is regarded as a thinking cricketer who always strives to explore something new, something extra in his game
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
In India, if you live with your parents, there is no way in hell you can avoid their interference in the tiniest aspects of your life.
Manobi Bandyopadhyay, India's first transgender principal of a college, speaks of her struggles in a moving interview.
Mukul Nagpaul explains why any diet you hate is guaranteed to fail, no matter how much weight you lose.
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
'You shouldn't marry because the relationship has become a habit', warns Love Guru.
Seeking truce with agitating Opposition members over controversial remarks made by Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the matter should be put to rest after her apology, but it failed to satisfy them.
"The school has killed me," he said in the note, found after the suicide on Thursday night, police said, adding they have registered a case of abetment of suicide against the headmistress and school management.
Katrina gets a haircut...Why is Ranveer lost in thought?
'This is the first time there has been an attempt to use market forces to counter disinformation on social media,' notes Devangshu Datta.
'Remembering his last meeting with Warne in 2021, Tendulkar said: "After the last IPL, I went to spend some time in London where we got in touch. There was never a dull moment. He was full of entertainment, full of jokes and you know those battles those mini competitions.'
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If 'development' and jobs and such things are less important to many than identity, then the BJP can dominate the discourse by stressing the largest marker of identity, which is religious nationalism, observes Aakar Patel.
'Depicting the genocide of 3 lakh #KashmiriHindus cannot be called vulgar.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
India's tweaking of IT rules allow formation of Centre-appointed panels, that will settle often-ignored user grievances against content decision of social media companies, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, adding that this was necessitated due to the "casual" and "tokenism" approach of digital platforms towards user complaints so far.
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