It is instructive to think of human society these days to be evolving to a period of greater collusion, with tendencies towards violence distributed evenly in societies, rather than grouped into certain conflit zones. This defies the data we have available presently on areas like the West Bank, The Gaza Strip, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, but [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Society’
February 10, 2009
India’s Schizophrenic Muddles, Goons, Conservatism and Progress
An important debate brewing in the Indian circles these days, especially in the media, is that of the recent “moral policing” attacks by fundamentalist Hindus on Indian youth in Mangalore. The incident is not unlike other atrocious activities aired with scary regularity on Indian television, although the media nexus in the incident was apparent from [...]
August 19, 2008
The Fate of Journalism in India
I am back from a 2 week vacation in India. It was a very important and interesting vacation which I hope to introspect and write more about. One of the things I did but for traveling and reading was watching TV, which I hadn’t done in ages. And all I watched (for the most part) [...]
