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‘Spiral of Silence’ in Indian Media?

Many in the Indian media with critical views of the government are increasingly choosing to be silent due to the fear of isolation.

What Future for the Media in India?

India’s largest company now controls India’s largest media conglomerate. India’s media could therefore well be perceived to henceforth be a little less independent or, for that matter, trustworthy. 

Corporatisation of the Media

The entry of Reliance Industries, India's largest corporate entity in the private sector, into the country's media industry in a major way with strategic associations with the Network18 group and the Eenadu group, has been perceived as an instance of consolidation in a sector in which big players have been steeped in debt and strapped for cash over the past few years. What the formation of the new media conglomerate (arguably one of the largest, if not the largest, in India) in the shake-out also signifies is growing concentration of ownership in an oligopolistic market that could lead to loss of media heterogeneity and plurality.

Kashmir: Tackling Militancy in Jammu

Even as the Kashmir Valley is returning to normalcy, militancy in Jammu appears to be picking up. The peculiar social and political background of the region, so different from the rest of the state needs to be taken into account in addressing the continuing militancy.

Black Humour in Time of War

While there is no dearth of news of the devastation caused by the ugly war in Iraq, there has been a profusion of absurdities, in the pronouncements, claims and counter-claims of the leaders and war correspondents and the editorial output of the Indian media.

Foreign Participation in Media

Public discussion on whether foreign participation should be allowed in media enterprises, has quite overlooked the fact that increasingly, the pace and path of the media is being determined by advertising, and is influenced by market research and media planning strategies in which corporates, Indian and foreign, have invested heavily.

Linking Pins in a Global World

World Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and the Public Interest by David Page and William Crawley; Sage Publications, New Delhi/ Thousand Oaks, London, 2000; pp 495, Rs 250 (paperback).

Future of a Fatal Symbiosis

Caught between a forgetful people encouraging their rulers to go berserk in their homicidal revengefulness, and a starving people imprisoned in a cage of religious memories created by fanatical zealots who are bent on an equally vengeful suicidal retaliation, the world in the new millennium seems to be readying itself for another catastrophe.

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