BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |08/10/2009
Can we stop a moment and look at the signals we are sending to our children? Would adults be able to tolerate such a diet of recycled, dubbed and rerun serials each day?
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |01/09/2009
During the ongoing swine flu outbreak, the television and print media played a big role in raising public awareness, but some concerns remain,
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |07/07/2009
How many days does it take a child-centric tragedy to slide off centre-stage in the print media?
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |05/06/2009
Seriously, is anyone looking at these episodes individually and commenting on their suitability and for which age-group even if it is on a children’s channel?
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |21/04/2009
The more I try to couch things in simple terms the more convoluted the explanations become.
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |28/03/2009
How do we convey the concept of "authorship" to young children who may not read as much in print as we did, and who use the Internet more than we do,
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |01/03/2009
Children and children’s issues are a big draw for the news media, but there is little on the news channels that she would want to watch with her child even at prime time,
BY Namitha Dipak| IN OPINION |19/01/2009
Today’s parents were not assaulted by brands or nurtured on the Internet while growing up, the way their kids are.
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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