The Election Commission reminded political parties on Saturday of its 2013 advisory against the use of photos of “defence personnel by political parties” for “election propaganda”.Two days ago...

Fifty-two years ago, as protests against the Vietnam war were snowballing, the counter-culture gaining traction, young people rebelling against the roles assigned to them in matters to do with gender,...

Contemporary propaganda, which has an air of arrogance, gets panicky when a genuine myth is born. Propaganda and media in general seek to create a set of diversionary tactics. The regimes itself, base...

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The author is a literary critic and a cultural activist ganesh_devy@yahoo.com...