Is Your Data Use Harming the Environment?
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore
After booking my train ticket online, I received a confirmation in my email inbox. The ticket ended with “Please don’t print...
A Reprehensible Republic: Republic TV’s Hollow Coverage of the Abrogation of Article 370
In any healthy democracy, the mainstream media is entrusted with the role of a watchdog, expected to always hold power to account. Unfortunately, much...
DIKSHA: The Long-Awaited Antidote to India’s Education Crisis?
Written by Aparna Ramanujam
It’s a blistering afternoon in Tamil Nadu, in July 2019. Inside a school in central Chennai, students run amok-the heat is...
Mediating the Media: Making India’s Children Media Literate
Authored by Ipsita Mishra
The Internet is the main source of information today, with usage climbing across urban and rural areas. Where we get our...
Why Aren’t We Making Hay as the Sun Shines? Moving to Solar Rooftops
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore with inputs from Arnab Chakraborty
The view from one of Dwarka’s apartments initially looks like the typical New Delhi skyline. The...
Data Data Everywhere, Whose is it to Give?
Written by Sourya Reddy & Swagam Dasgupta
It was a bone-dry morning in the middle of May, much like any other summer in Delhi. Although...
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Investigating the Logistics of Surveillance in India
Written by Anupriya Nair
A report from the Reuter’s Institute found that at least 55% of English-language news readers in India are afraid of expressing...
Mapping the Illegal Trade of Wildlife on Social Media
Co-authored by Avantika Bunga and Kartik Sundar
The internet’s capacity to enable anonymity has attracted a slew of users who use it for illicit gains....
Wheeling past Digital Literacy’s Potholes in India
Written by Sarah Berry
Innumerous schemes are implemented to ensure that all children have access to quality education. Despite this, the main hindrance to successfully...
VAR: Does the Scoreline Reflect the Game?
Written by Govind Narayan
The approval and subsequent utilisation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the 2018 FIFA World Cup caused much furore, given...
