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The writer has headed and taught at schools of media and communication

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with Sonia Gandhi NCP chief Sharad Pawar and other leaders addresses the media after the INDIA bloc leaders meeting at Kharges residence, in New Delhi, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | This election in India challenged the...

The 2024 elections have highlighted the need for rational, evidence-based political discourse

7 Jun 2024 12:05 AM IST

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Fordham University Lincoln Center campus where a group had established an encampment inside a building on May 01, 2024 in New York City. The occupation of the building comes a day after police raided both Columbia University and City College, arresting dozens and closing down encampments there. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Campuses erupt in US: Can India, world learn...

The recent police raids at Columbia University reverberate globally, sparking debates on free speech and dissent.

7 May 2024 12:02 AM IST

Free speech law stops at the gates of private spaces. (Image: Freepik)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Threats to free speech rise as global...

In India, we have been making cautious adjustments to our understanding of free speech by watching the goings-on all...

20 Dec 2023 12:03 AM IST

US President Joe Biden attends a press conference at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Equity vs equality: Battle of the visible &...

The court's ruling on affirmative action came on the legal yardstick of strict scrutiny.

8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

ChatGPT can formulate legal notes, spot humanly undetectable diseases, and write computer code. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Uncertainty in classrooms amid ChatGPT...

ChatGPT is now a headache for educators because it can easily act as a substitute for student effort

24 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

The louder pre-alarm alarm for the news media in India and elsewhere is that not only has trust been declining, interest in news appears to have fallen across the world: a huge plunge from 63 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Why people are avoiding news; and what must be done to fix things

Only 42 per cent of respondents said they trust news

19 Jun 2022 12:09 AM IST

It seems to me that the reader and the audience should feel a deep sense of gratitude for every individual mediaperson who is going against the grain at the cost of unspeakable abuse online, on social media and even on their own online platforms. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Media outlets, others must do more to curtail...

While the newsperson is going through her set of emotional distress, the public at large has its own issues to deal with

23 March 2022 1:10 AM IST

Over the last week of October 2021, the UN-sponsored Global Media and Information Week in South Africa, with Indias participation, resolved to fight disinformation by improving peoples ability to counter it. (Photo: UNICEF)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info...

In India and many other countries where media literacy is still in its infancy, the discourse is still largely basic

3 Dec 2021 11:14 PM IST

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted

The role of social media in the current framework is not quite as simple, but whether they are completely hands-off is...

19 Jun 2021 7:07 AM IST

Evidence produced in court showed how unsuspecting officers had been giving out information on their postings and the whereabouts of other colleagues on social media, putting national security at risk, despite earlier advisories on conduct of military personnel on social media. (Photo | Pixabay - PixelKult)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower...

Fake news is a significant reason that media literacy has emerged strongly in the education curricula around the world

2 March 2021 10:20 AM IST

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for...

The social media has two broad roles the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous...

23 Feb 2021 4:48 AM IST

Work from home is taking a toll on the mind and body.

Beyond Covid: Towards a new normal' at work

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing these very companies to reredefine their offices as post-Covid workplaces

18 Nov 2020 1:44 AM IST