Tag: Media
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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?
Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a…
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In Varanasi: Ganga looking for Moksh
I now enter the ever sacred city of Varanasi earlier known as ‘Banaras’. This city and I have a long history. I enter Varanasi as one holy river having added divine waters of Yamuna and Saraswati at the Sangam. One of the oldest cities in the world, Varanasi encapsulates all the rituals and symbols of…
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The 1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics, Rebel Music and MTV
The decade that made us, 80s was full of surprises. It brought happiness with the start of the fall of the Soviet Union and the beginning of a new future under Reaganomics in the United States. Old Walls were brought down, AIDS became a new battle and while all these things happened, music subtly embraced…
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Why are so many countries witnessing protests in 2019?
As the year 2019 comes to an end, FaultLines looks back at what binds many protests in many countries. Mass protests have broken out in countries from Lebanon to Spain to Chile and Bolivia. All are different – with distinct causes, methods, and goals – but there are some common themes that connect them. The…
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Abu Zubaydah Bait: Understanding the Failure of CIA’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ post 9/11
Did a U.S Department of Justice Official really claim that if the president wanted to crush a child’s testicles, no treaty could stop him? Did waterboarding ever result in truthful confession? What happened to Abu Zubaydah during the interrogation? Why were video recordings of many 9/11 suspected terrorists deleted? The graphics/ words might be disturbing…
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The Moon: Dreams of A Young Nation
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars”, some of these brightest stars sat in the control room of Satish Dhawan Space Centre while they made history for their fellow country people and the entire mankind. It was for the first time that a country as young as India had ambitions to soft-land on…
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The Decade of a Financially Strong China and India’s Wait For The Turn
Coming out of pools of data, how China made its own mark in the world economy and how India is getting ready to beat it Its been a decade now since Lehman brothers, Investment banking company went bankrupt triggering the world economic crisis of 2008. 2008 crisis was as bad as the 1930s global economic…
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Tracing My Roots: Why a British made line can divide a land but not people
Yahi din hai jiske liye maine kati thee in ankhon mein raatein Yahi seeli aab-e baqa, chasma noor hai, jalwa-e toor hai? Issi ke liye woh suhane, madhur, rasbhare geet gaye they maine? Urdu Poet, Akhtarul Iman in his poem Pandrah August (15th August) says, “Was it for this day that I had spent so many sleepless nights,…
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The Rise of Machines: Is the technology of the future going to take away my job?
Is it only media, No!, the technological wave is being felt at every workplace but you can survive it. Remember Y2K? I mean the year 2000 when every big and small company rushed to safeguard their data anticipating a millennium bug that could wipe out calendar information. The technology of the future has the power…
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Listen Without Prejudice: Why George Michael Wanted ‘Freedom’ from SONY
A Father’s Gift For Whom I’ve got the Unlimited 80’s song Collection- Happy Father’s Day dad, Your favorite singer and his story. Faith, Listen without Prejudice, Older- The Album names themselves tell you about a singer who was maturing from his ‘Sex Figure’, but did he regret suing his label owner-Sony? 1987 and Faith Album…
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