WTF Just Happened: November 10byPrem PanickerNovember 10, 2017 #1. Pune University just announced that gold medals will be given only to those students who are completely…
WTFJH: The October 14 weekend editionbyPrem PanickerOctober 14, 2017 #1. It takes just one news story to meet, and exceed, the weekend’s whatthefuckery quotient: Over two years…
Fake news and real problemsbyPrem PanickerSeptember 30, 2017 After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth – an adjective defined…
Who leads the leader?byPrem PanickerSeptember 30, 2017 “If you know Niraj Dave, Nikhil Dadhich and Akash Soni,” says TV anchor Ravish Kumar in a letter…
Essential reading: Shame CulturebyPrem PanickerMarch 18, 2016 Via Arati Kumar-Rao, this piece on the rise of the tribe on social media, and the related cultures of…
Ticked off by the blue tickbyPrem PanickerMarch 10, 2016 Now this has become a thing — the blue tick next to your name on Twitter. Why Why…
A Miranda for our timesbyPrem PanickerFebruary 28, 2016 Twitter pic.twitter.com/is4aCPbLdr — Calestous Juma (@calestous) February 27, 2016
Oh the sorry state of public discoursebyPrem PanickerFebruary 23, 2016 Rohith Vemula’s mother was supposedly very poor. Now she can afford trips to Delhi etc. Source of funding?…
Exiting the echo chamberbyPrem PanickerFebruary 23, 2016 Just spotted this: Seriously considering exiting Twitter. Multiple iterations of known positions; whataboutery and counter-whataboutery … It's…
I, victimbyPrem PanickerFebruary 17, 2016 The heart bleeds, as bleed it must, for this symbol of the oppressed South. The left hitting back…