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<title><![CDATA[Can Facebook swing the vote]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A study claims that digital media will play a decisive role in the 2014 elections. PATRICK GHOSE says that this can happen only after Internet access increases and embraces nonEnglish speakers. Graphic Iris Knowledge Foundation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Deconstructing Change.org]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The concept of online petitioning is riding high on the wave of social change sweeping the world. MANU MOUDGIL says that while the impact is promising there are several roadblocks to be negotiated.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Times of Indias power do]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Just a look at the extensive coverage makes it clear what TOIs priorities even on such an occasion are. The visuals and quotes were entirely dominated by the power elite. SUJATA MADHOK  says the papers social impact awards were selfserving.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enlisting the media]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The newly galvanised Indian protester on the street needs to recognise that the media amplifies best when it has half its work done for it. SEVANTI NINAN on how civil society can assist media in combating  gender violence.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Creating an environment against rape]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There is an important role for media advocacy in building a powerful response to this national shame and walking that critical distance between data and decision as the nations conscience keepers. CHITRA SUBRAMANIAM presents a road map.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Television for peace]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Singers artists writers and academics were inspired by a TV talk show Prasangokrome on DY 365 to make a spontaneous visit to the strife torn areas in the Bodoland Territorial Area District. TERESA REHMAN reports]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Life after Satyamev Jayate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[So what should we conclude in the wake of Satyamev Jayate about the power of television What has also changed with SMJ is the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between electronic and digital media says RADHIKA SACHDEV]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Calling  Bhoomi Kosam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine not having documents that can establish that the house you live in is yours or having an address that belongs to three other people. PARVINDER SINGH profiles Indias first dial in television programme on secure land entitlements.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wish I was a tiger]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Is NDTV trading its role as an independent media organization by plugging into the states own agenda for legitimacy How about a media campaign for the rights of marginalised humans asks PADMAJA SHAW]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lets pause before shrieking out]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The television anchors shock at a ward boy administering minor treatment was more shocking than the incident. You are either with us or you are damned attitude spreading in Indian media says SHANTANU DATTA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata gags the Dodhichi newsletter]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Now it is the turn of the alternative media in West Bengal to be at the receiving end of governmental intolerance. There is a clampdown on a unique mobile alert service in Kolkata writes RANJIT SUR.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why is this cartoonist caged]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Aseem Trivedi is determined to bring the fight for freedom in the virtual media into the real world  on the street in full view of the public. GEETA SESHU speaks to him about the Saveyourvoice campaign against the IT rules.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Theatre as a mirror]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty eight journalists from four television channels and seven newspapers come together to portray the realities of their professional life. TERESA REHMAN on the unique Assamese play Alop Nubuja Daawar]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trans boundary  journalism]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China already has experience of running community radios. They can play the role of an early warning system. China lies in the upstream amd if they can forsee any disaster they can inform us. We can do this as we have one thing in common  the river TERESA REHMAN on a climate change workshop involving journalists of three countries. Pix the Yarlung Zangbo]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The police are a feudal force that hates the common man]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Former journalist Prashant Rahi who took up the struggle against Tehri Dam after Sunderlal Bahuguna had called it a day was arrested and jailed for four years on the charge of being a Maoist. Out on bail he talks to JYOTI PUNWANI about journalism activism and political prisoners.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A short tweet to save the story]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Many people rely on the short stories on BBCs 40 year old Radio4 to provide the cultural focus that many other stations have wholly abandoned. No wonder there was a crescendo of tweet protests when the BBC decided to reduce the frequency of the programme says SUNEETHA BALAKRISHNAN]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Loksatta invites bribe tales]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Marathi daily Loksatta asked its readers to disclose their experiences about paying bribes. The letters show the pervasive nature of bribe taking in government and semi government offices in Mumbai. PRABHAKAR KULKARNI details some of the reader responses.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why they feel cheated]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While a dictatorial government grapples with dissent the aam aadmi has reasons to scoff at the second freedom movement says JAY MAZOOMDAR]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get a better idea Sirjee]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ad campaigns of Idea Cellular try dealing with social issues but fall flat on logic Says MANU MOUDGIL]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media in the times of Anna ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Entire television studios descended from their air conditioned interiors to Ground Zero to beam what the media saw as the first civil society uprising in the age of satellite television. NUPUR BASU on  how easy it was for television to  manufacture  Indias Tahrir  Square]]></description>
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