DailyPost 385 PUBLIC THINKERS, PUBLIC DOMAIN & PUBLIC LIFE Undeniably, all of us think, worthwhile or not is a different story. Societally useful would be for another day. Individual & cumulative societal thinking is really well manifested on the medium of the day; the social media and how much of it qualifies as a Public […]
PUBLIC THINKERS, PUBLIC DOMAIN & PUBLIC LIFE Read More »
DailyPost 371 DO PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS MATTER? Public intellectuals as known genre is missing in this country. The intellectuals are referred to at times in TV & other debate. These belong to a creative class ; the writers & their ilk. Some of a different type get into activism get packaged by the nature of activism,
DO PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS MATTER? Read More »
DailyPost 353 ELECTRONIC MEDIA EXPERTS The mass invasion of electronic media changed the rules of the game. News formats of yesteryears became a thing of the past & brand new formats started tumbling down the electronic media giants stables. News became a game to be played 24/7 basis, entertaining enough to keep the audiences glued,
ELECTRONIC MEDIA EXPERTS Read More »
DailyPost 350 WRITING IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN In a society where reading itself is a casualty, writing is never a favoured destination. The pre-packaged forwards & half baked ill conceived comments, have become the mainstay of the social media. Writing in the professional domain has no connects to the outside world. The use of Internet
WRITING IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN – 350th Daily Post Read More »
DailyPost 323 SOCIAL MEDIA & ACADEMICS From being declared the Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2006, social media today dominates the way digital technology is used around the world. Academics is no exception. Wikipedia is redefining everyday knowledge. The technological lag between educators & available cutting edge mediums have long been there; films
SOCIAL MEDIA & ACADEMICS Read More »
DailyPost 308 POST TRUTH AGE Paid News, Fake News & Alternative News Trump elections & Brexit marks the consolidation of the Post Truth age. Completely new manifestations of media, which was at best at the periphery, not acceptable to the mainstream, established itself. These are paid news, fake news & alternative news, though having distinct
POST TRUTH AGE Paid News, Fake News & Alternative News Read More »
DailyPost 307 POST TRUTH / POST TRUTH POLITICS / POST TRUTH AGE With the onset of the Information Age based on data as the critical driving force in every field, the smokescreen created deliberately by vested interests was bound to disappear. Truth was expected to prevail & life would necessarily be dictated by facts. Today
POST TRUTH / POST TRUTH POLITICS / POST TRUTH AGE Read More »
DailyPost 304 IS SOCIAL MEDIA KILLING CREATIVITY? Creativity is born & propelled in an ecosystem which provides for peace of mind, allows for companions of one’s choice & unperturbed time to be remain engaged. Generally, it takes roots pretty early in life, nearly at the same time, when the whole generation is getting hooked to
IS SOCIAL MEDIA KILLING CREATIVITY? Read More »
DailyPost 303 A DEBATE ON THE DEBATES Discussions, deliberations, board meetings, senate meetings, conferences, congressional hearings, parliamentary proceedings and professional debates , for sure, depend on debating capabilities; to put forth your ideas or stand, on the issues and substantiate it with facts, indulge in cogent & effective summation and carry home the communication to
A DEBATE ON THE DEBATES Read More »
DailyPost 281 JARGON Jargon is quite liberally used to express what the general reader doesn’t want understand, sometimes not even try to understand and at times to demean the writing of an individual of being unworthy of reading. Quite often, the use of supposedly sophisticated language is also termed so. Literally, it means, use
DailyPost 251 INSPIRATION & WHATSAPP The flood of inspirational messages on WhatsApp mainly by way of forwards; ideas, thoughts, stories, data, information, pics & videos has made it the most inspirational medium in human history. Who gets inspired is the basic question! Or is it just a war of forwards in the healthy competition
INSPIRATION & WHATSAPP Read More »
