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The Needle’s Eye
Lies, Damned Lies, & Forwards

The Economic TimesBy Chaitanya KalbagMarch 23, 2025Leave a comment

There is more than one way to skin a cat. We will be travelling to the outer reaches of credulity as election fever rises over the next six months, fuelled by hundreds of millions of users of social media.   Misinformation can take any shape and is very hard to pin down. We can already hear…

Nuts & Bolts-Viral Fever

3 Mar 2018, Business World, OpinionBy Chaitanya KalbagJune 18, 2024Leave a comment

The only antidotes to fake news are truth and commonsense Start exercise your smartphone thumb, because the next big election will be fought on our mobiles. The latest Internet and Mobile Association of India survey says 86.5 per cent of users access the Internet via mobiles and smartphones. That works out to over 430 million…

Nuts & Bolts-Vulture Culture

2nd - 15th Feb 2019, Business World, OpinionBy Chaitanya KalbagJune 13, 2024Leave a comment

Social media –and mass media– fuel a horrific cycle of evil Psychopathy. Voyeurism. Sadism. Schadenfreude. Vicarious pleasure. Blood lust. You will find several terms to describe the human tendency to find a strange satisfaction, indeed fulfilment, in witnessing the pain and suffering of other people or creatures. If you gaze long enough into an abyss,…

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