Hindustan Times
Okay. Enough of current affairs, parliamentary debates, and dead politicians. As this is – nominally, at least – a media column, let’s do something about the entertainment media. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Filed under Internet, Media · Tagged Damages, entertainment media, Hindustan Times, Internet, Luther, Medium term, Revenge, Sherlock, The Borgias, The Newsroom, The Slap, TV shows, Vir Sanghvi
It is tempting to draw parallels between the Salman Rushdie case and the current uproar over an anti-Islamic internet video. But despite a co-incidence of timing – the protests coincided with the publication of Joseph Anton, Rushdie’s memoir of his years in hiding – the differences between the two cases far outweigh the parallels. Read more
(12 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:33 am
Filed under HT Blogs, Internet, Religion, World · Tagged afghanistan, anti-Islamic video, CIA, Hindustan Times, Islam, Joseph Anton, Libya, Medium term, Salman Rushdie, US government, Vir Sanghvi
One of my lasting regrets, each time I go to the United States, is that my favourite bookshops have all closed. So, for that matter, have all the record (or CD) shops that I used to frequent. Read more
(13 votes, average: 3.77 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Filed under Features, Internet, Media · Tagged Amazon, Barnes and Noble, book-lovers, books, bookshops, Flipkart, Medium term, reading, Scribners, Sephora, tablets, technology, Vir Sanghvi
If you look hard enough at the newspapers, you might be able to make some sense of the debate over FDI in retail. But if you are stuck with the mainstream news channels, then the issues may not seem much clearer. Read more
(37 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, December 2, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Filed under HT Blogs, India, Internet, Media · Tagged FDI in retail, hindustantimes, Indian economy, Medium term, news, retail marketing, Vir Sanghvi
Should one be able to defame people on the Internet without any fear of retribution? Should people who have been defamed on the Internet have no legal redress? Read more
(39 votes, average: 2.49 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Filed under Internet · Tagged anonymous, blog, blogger, Bombay High Court, cliché, defamatory, defame, Google, HT media, Internet, Internet freedom, Internet host, legal notice, legal redress, liable, NDTV, plaintiffs, prostitute, retribution, Wikipedia
