TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN : Articles

BY TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN| IN BOOKS |02/01/2017

The author interviewed several of those who troll. They belong to the lower sub-stratum of the BJP, which has a pretty sophisticated upper stratum as well.

Media’s escalating romance with RBI governors

BY TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN| IN OPINION |22/08/2016

Journalists have lost all sense of proportion in the attention they give to a routine technocratic appointment that means little to the citizen,

Creating public intellectuals

BY TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN| IN BOOKS |23/10/2015

Since Modi became PM a vigorous debate has been going on about the intellectual atmosphere in the country. But who exactly is an intellectual? Who creates them?

The fluctuating fashions of byline use

BY TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/07/2015

To give or not to give a byline is an existential question. The use of bylines has waxed and waned over the years.

The edit page - A relic of a bygone era?

BY TCA SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN| IN OPINION |15/07/2015

The edit page has become like nipples on the male chest: decorative but useless.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.