Myth versus reality
ASCI ticks off misleading ads featuring celebrities as claims are grossly exaggerated Ad guru Leo Burnett once said how advertising does not just circulate information, it penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. And at a time when lifestyle choices are aplenty and we seek to govern our lives with...
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Odd-even blues
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Betraying the Uighurs
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Girls interrupted
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Grudge wars in Andhra
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Cancelled talks and after
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No marks for excellence
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The messenger is wrong
13 September 2019 | Pioneer
Look beyond the bias
Boris Johnson might have been cavalier in his attitude towards the burqa. But by raking up an old controversy, is Dhesi reinforcing stereotypes than breaking them? Sardar Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Britain’s first ever Sikh MP, recently targetted the newly-appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson over his remarks about burqa-clad Muslim women. In...
China’s tech legend
Jack Ma’s AliBaba will be remembered in the annals of tech history. But hides a darker side of state-sponsored capitalism Jack Ma, or Ma Yun, to give his Chinese name, is a legend in the world of e-commerce. Having stumbled upon the opportunities the internet offered, he began his technological career...
Normalising Kashmir
We need a counter-narrative than risk being baited on human rights, one that justifies why J&K is our internal issue It would be easy enough to shrug off the growing concern in Western capitals about the lockdown in the newly-defined Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as one of polemics and archetypes and...
Shroud on camaraderie
It is doubtful if a Xi-Mo encounter (if it takes place at all) can solve the vexed border dispute between India and China. First and foremost condition is to develop basic trust Will Chinese President Xi Jinping make it to the southern beach resort of Mahabalipuram? And if the informal summit...
Trouble for Kamal Nath
The riots probe will compound the MP CM’s woes after the heat from ED and Cong faction fights Trouble continues to brew for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh with Chief Minister Kamal Nath now in the line of fire as the Union Home Ministry has decided to re-open seven cases pertaining...
Trump, the negotiator
For a man who says he is a master of deals, US President Donald Trump seems rather desperate this time Every American President wants to leave his/her mark on modern world history, usually by altering global politics for better or worse. Some do it with economic policy, others militarily. Yet others...
Needed, a healing touch
The Army remains the ultimate protector of the Sri Lankan people but there’s a need to track down human rights violations. The country must also stop demonising Muslims Last month, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) held its ninth annual defence seminar under the shadow of the tragic Easter Sunday bombings in...
