Category: Editorial
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Equality: The Forgotten Player in the Red Queen Race of Copyright Policy
Introducing the Red Queen: I was told by my teachers to always start with a story, and what’s better than one from my favourite childhood novel? Most of you might have read ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll; it includes a scene where Alice, in the strange land that’s designed like a giant…
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A buffet for ‘everyone’
On my smartphone, I can access Google with a single tap. With it, comes an unbound access to loads of information. I can access lecture videos from Stanford and Harvard, and interviews from the wall street sitting on the couch in my living room. Such a buffet of information! But, is that buffet for everyone?…
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Blogosphere and Plurality of Voices
I think Gandhian politics should be the way to the future, and I’m stereotyped as being impractical. The next day, when I say that I feel Nathuram Godse should have been forgiven long back because that’s what Gandhi would have done, the people who called me impractical the previous day come thrashing at me because…
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Democratising the Blogosphere, one blog at a time
So, blogging can aid in social transformation. It helps in building an online identity. It can propel my professional development. But, why me? Aren’t there millions of blogs already? Why particularly should I ‘plus one’ to this vast existing number? Well, the answer is, because even a single voice does matter, a lot! Let’s start…