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An ambigram in The Hindu
Republic Day

An ambigram in The Hindu

The Hindu has an unusual ad in today’s paper (at least
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VM
12 years and counting
The Hindu

12 years and counting

I’ve been a journalist for 12 years. For the first few
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business model

A Q&A about philosophy in journalism

Earlier this year, Varun Bhatta, assistant professor of philosophy at the Indian
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Clare Malone

Hasan Minhaj's search for the premise

When Hasan Minhaj spoke on his show about living through some dangerous
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commemoration

10 years in journalism

Thinking about the number ’10’ is hard. It’s the number of
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democracy

On the NBDSA opinion against Zee News

On April 5, JNU PhD student Shehla Rashid tweeted that the National
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cooperative distrust

Cooperative distrust

Is there a doctrine or manifesto of cooperative distrust? Because I think
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journalism

Scicommers as knowledge producers

Reading the latest edition of Raghavendra Gadagkar’s column in The Wire
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absence of evidence

On the lab-leak hypothesis

One problem with the debate over the novel coronavirus’s “lab leak”
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bad news

The climate change of bad news

This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.
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COVID-19

Good journalism is still around

This morning, a trusted scientist called my attention to a tweet thread
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Bertrand Russell

Nitin Gadkari, tomato chutney and blood

There is a famous comedy scene in Tamil cinema, starring the actors
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