Malaysian authorities have taken it upon themselves to decide who gets to use the word Allah. In mid-December, they banned the Catholic newspaper Herald because it used the word. The ban was revoked but on the condition that the Malay language newspaper does not use the word Allah. The Herald is circulated among the country
In the last week of December, many newspapers in Nepal kept their editorial space blank to protest against attacks on the offices of Himal Media. On December 21 the offices of Nepal
At the crack of dawn on November 12, a group of colourfully-clothed people took to the streets in Los Angeles and New York to distribute a copy of The New York Times. The paper carried an eye-catching headline: Iraq war ends. It also had a story saying all Americans were being given free healthcare. The papers were dated July 4, 2009. They were fake. A group called Yes Men, known in the us
The India Today Group and German publishing firm Axel Springer have launched a fortnightly auto magazine Auto Bild. According to Ashish Bagga, the ceo of the India Today Group,
>> The Spanish police have arrested five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the Internet. The hackers, who include two 16-year-olds, are accused of disrupting government
On one floor is the phone Rupert Murdoch used to make multibillion-dollar media deals. On another is a bullet-scarred car used by journalists in the Balkans. There is also one of the biggest
the common wisdom of electoral democracy might call for politicians, specialising in arithmetic, who can identify the biggest number. But the post-modern understanding of electoral politics may demand integrating a small number of voters whose limit to power is tending towards infinity! Let us look at how a few road dividers on a stretch of 19 km in Delhi have completely divided the urban classes (see page: 32-38).
