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  • Memories, dilemmas and lessons from three decades in Journalism

    Mr. Ravi Reddy, an alumnus of the Department and current resident editor of The Hindu in Telangana, spoke about ‘Reporting in Transition: From Mofussil to Digital’, on 15th October.

  • Three master plans, no clear choice

    We saw three models being proposed for redevelopment of Osmania University campus. We ask which is the best model — for biodiversity, heritage, and sports.

  • Students strategise around 75% rule

    As the University tightens the attendance leash with regular tracking and rigid enforcement, a new subculture of “calculated compliance” is emerging on campus.

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  • Information Ecosystem

    Press releases issued by the government are increasingly evasive and obfuscatory, thanks to A.I., writes The Hindu’s senior journalist Sobhana K. Nair. In a diary column published on 6th November, she wrote, “Government press notes […] use various tools of evasion, serving to deliver two contradictory objectives: publicising the government’s achievements while concealing any information on shortcomings. This is an…

  • $ Business & the State $

    In the Supreme Court, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs the UPI payment infrastructure, countered the petitioners’ contention that an amended MDR framework should have been introduced only through a new legislation and not just through a notification in September. It argued that MDR was not a tax, cess, fee, duty or any other statutory levy imposed…

  • ** Media Buzz **

    The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has invited suggestions on ways to strengthen the Indian film industry and its long-term growth and global competitiveness. Interested individuals and organisations can submit their views to a High-Level Study Group constituted to examine opportunities and challenges facing Indian cinema. The study group is chaired by Prasoon Joshi, Chairman of Prasar Bharati. The group…

  • ?olitical Fi!e

    On Day 5 of protests in New Delhi: Protesters climbed over barricades, slogans pierced through the din of police announcements, and detention buses filled up on Wednesday as hundreds of people took to the streets of central Delhi against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The fifth consecutive day of demonstrations saw…

  • ~ Creators | Critics ~

    Critic pans The Social Reckoning for tame politics of the director The Social Reckoning, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, released this week. Billed as a follow-up to the 2010 film, The Social Network, it dramatises the 2021 Facebook leak by the whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. Here’s the assessment of the movie by The Hindu‘s critic, Ayan Paul…

  • // Policy & Governance //

    The Union Home Ministry’s demography committee is now seeking inputs from the public and NGOs on “frequent demographic changes” that are inconsistent with fertility and mortality trends. The High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC), chaired by former Supreme Court judge P. P. Naolekar, was constituted on May 26 to study the “nature, causes and consequences of demographic changes being observed…