Facebook’s become a large community toilet

It’s for the second time in three years that I’ve actually got tired of being on Facebook. Like my late boss and Editor S.D. Wagh used to say, “If I see another newspaper, I am going to throw up.” I’ve begun to feel that way too. Reading the status updates, some thought-provoking, others funny and [...]

Losing the human touch

How technology has changed our lives! We remember birthdays, wedding anniversaries and other such dates, mostly because we see them mentioned on social networking sites that we frequent. If we don’t see them we probably won’t remember. But there was a time when we functioned better without technology. Around twenty years ago, I was one [...]

Off Facebook, as promised…for now

Some good things may come to an end. I am not going to say anything more, so let’s just wait and see how it goes… I promised I’d go off Facebook on December 31 and I did. I deactivated my account and I’m going to stay away, till I feel like getting back. They have [...]

Break to banta hai!

Have you ever craved for something to the extent that it drives you to distraction? It could be a cigarette, or a drink; a Bengali sweet or an Ice cream; some spicy chicken or an aloo parantha; computers, music or movies …whatever. I am sure there are a lot more things in this world we [...]

Today’s budding journos – not curious enough

Curiosity, as the old saying goes, killed a cat. While not wishing anything as extreme on any student of media studies today, I will say that a lot of them, who are looking to enter the world of media, are not curious enough about anything. So what stops students from finding out more? When we [...]