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Should media regulations also include social media?
You can be a reporter just with Twitter now, so what do you do with journalists who are not part of newspapers? Are they beyond new regulations? Are the websites belonging to newspapers held to the same standard of reporting?
Dear India,Pakistan: Stop blaming each other for everything
On the Indian subcontinent, regional trouble is blamed on the foreign hand. Such stupidity is commonplace among the state, the people and the media.
Read before you RT: Twitter lessons from Hamas to BBC
A series of incidents in several countries, and involving several organisations, have further highlighted the need for us to think before we tweet, and read before we retweet.
Pak race for tactical nukes adds new poison to the mix
Pakistan's nuclear frenzy, and its move to acquire smaller and more readily usable nuclear weapons, is disquieting because such weapons make sense only when distributed near the borders for quick and early use.
Jimmy Savile row: Why the BBC should not be shut down
This "crisis" engulfing the world's largest broadcasting organisation needs to be dealt with properly and comprehensively, not hysterically.
Obama won because his gut instinct was right
He focused on regular Americans — the middle class and the poor — while Romney dissed them as the 47 percent who didn’t matter. His cool, non-fussy way of governing won him more support than Romney had imagined.
Obama, Romney play dirty: Is all hope lost for America?
Republicans are set to oppose everything Obama does if he gets re-elected. Democrats are poised to oppose everything Romney does if he gets elected.
US election: Why there are no bumper stickers in Indian politics
The principle difference between India's political signage and hoardings and America's, is this. In America, it's pure text. In India, as we can observe, it's photographs and names of people.
Sandy effect: Will a cocky Obama team pay the price?
Just five days before the vote the race is too close to call, partly because of the Obama campaign’s slightly arrogant, slightly complacent and overly confident methods. On the other hand, Romney’s team has run a better, tighter campaign in the last phase.
Obama gets groove back, firing up crowds in last phase
It took a while and a disastrous first debate performance to wake and shake Obama up. A little more than two weeks before the vote and all guns blazing he is firing up the crowds.
US Prez polls: Why social media trumps blogs, media outlets
Reading the other stories of America, or even visiting the country in person, can offer a far greater, and more useful, perspective. Even using social media, such as Twitter, to connect to Americans watching debates or attack ads, will be more beneficial.
Why Obama desperately needs Biden to win the VP debate
If vice president Joe Biden can't mop the floor with his opponent Paul Ryan in their one debate on Thursday night, it will add to the sense that Team Obama is on the way out.
Why the Obama-Romney debate was a big fat yawn
It is sad that both men seem content merely to convince the undecided Americans, rather than all of America that they should be the leader for the next four years.
Rushdie and Jinnah: More alike than different?
I was reading Salman Rushdie's memoir, Joseph Anton, when it struck me that Pakistan's Mohd Ali Jinnah, the Muslim hero, and India's Rushdie, the Muslim villain, share quite a few things in common...
Two faced Pakistan exposes itself in the US
The two faces of Pakistan were on stark display last week, one with a good make over showing signs of a somewhat healthy diet and the other darkened with twisted logic spouting old falsehoods.
Topless royalty, murdered envoys and the great privacy debate
What is a private moment? What is a public one? How do you define dignity? No easy questions, and no easy answers.
Anti Islam video: Free speech at what cost?
Free speech absolutists want the US govt to assert First Amendment rights and not compromise this most sacred principle. But they don’t explain how a government is to protect its citizens – a task more sacred.
What US Judiciary could learn from Naroda Patiya verdict
While in India, the people’s faith in the judiciary was restored with the Naroda Patiya verdict, in America, two cases under investigation related to the use of torture by the CIA, which had ended in the deaths of two prisoners, were shut down.
Why Pak can't bring about change in blasphemy law
Aakar Patel feels it is strong religious sentiment that is the reason why so many Pakistanis are accused of being blasphemers.
Why does Al Jazeera call terror, just violence
Firstpost blogger Seema Sirohi defends her views on why she found Al Jazeera's show on the flight of North Eastern Indians from various cities uninformed. She's also confused as to why the channel calls a terror group as merely violent.
Al Jazeera journo defends channel’s coverage of India topic
Al Jazeera journalist defends channel's show on the flight of North Eastern Indians from various cities and their larger approach to coverage in conflict areas
Naked Harry pics: Are UK papers finally growing up?
When British papers won't run the naked pictures of Prince Harry, you know something's changed.
Shocker: Al Jazeera’s ignorant anti-India narrative
It is open season on India. And everyone is hunting. Whoever had a grudge while India was the flavour of the season is now in the game, busy getting their two minutes of fame.
Julian Assange is not the tragic hero he thinks he is
Assange is no longer Wikileaks, and for the sake of Wikileaks, he should walk away. If he truly believes in the work it does, then it can and should survive without him. But he doesn't. He believes in himself.
Zia ul-Haq was the leader that Pakistan wanted
This past week marked two anniversaries in Pakistan, that of the nation’s birth and that of president Zia ul-Haq's death. Zia may be disliked by Pakistan’s English editorial writers but he was the leader that Pakistan wanted.
London 2012: Do the Olympics herald a 'new Britain'?
If Britain wants to use the Olympics and Paralympics to inspire creation of a "new Britain", by all means. But every Briton will have to work at it to make it a reality. It doesn't come from simply watching sport, or the Spice Girls.
US gurdwara shooting: Why racism, ignorance are to blame
For the Sikh community in the United States, solving one hate crime may not be enough. They have been at the receiving end since 9/11 — repeatedly mistaken for who they are not. Ignorance about the turban, long hair and kirpan is rampant.
On foreign policy, Romney sounds like Obama's confused version
So far the presumptive Republican nominee’s foreign policy musings have been short on details and heavy on rhetoric.
Happy Birthday Zardari: You need a good year
Zardari may not have academic skills, or interests, but he is first rate at understanding problems. Like all Indian prime ministers since 1991, he has been in power without a parliamentary majority for his party.
Are the London Olympics a mess already?
Are the worries over issues like security and transport overdone or will it help ensure that the London Olympics go smoothly?