Media Ethics Around the World: How Other Countries Regulate the Press, and Where India Stands
From Britain after Leveson to the US First Amendment, Europe's arm's-length regulators, the Nordic trust model and Singapore's POFMA - how the world holds…
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The Human Cost of the Viral Hunt: Media Trials, Victim-Shaming and Lives in the Crossfire
When virality becomes the goal, real people turn into content. A humane look at media trials, illegal victim-naming and the dignity, mental health and…
When a Headline Hurts a Nation: Sensational Media, National Security and India’s Foreign Relations
How sensational, viral crisis coverage can mislead citizens, feed adversary propaganda and distort India's image abroad — drawing on Operation Sindoor, IFJ, ISD, CJP…
Breaking News, Broken Trust: The ‘Quickest-First’ Newsroom and the Manufacture of Misinformation
When the newsroom's first instinct is speed over verification, falsehood travels faster than fact. How the race to be first manufactures misinformation - and…
The Run for Virality: How the Race to Be First Is Breaking Media Ethics
The attention economy has flipped journalism's order — speed beats accuracy, outrage beats truth. We examine how the race to be first breaks media…
Indus Dice: Echoes of India’s Living Civilisation
A 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus Valley Civilisation is still instantly recognisable to any Indian child. That small fact opens a large idea:…
Media Freedom in India: A Free Press Under Pressure
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on press freedom in India, weighing RSF's 2026 ranking and the Government's methodology objection against Article 19 jurisprudence.
India’s Education Spending: Still Chasing the 6% Promise
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on India's education spending: the unmet 6%-of-GDP target since Kothari 1966, the two spending measures, and the learning crisis…
Paper Leaks and the Crisis of Exam Integrity
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on India's exam-leak crisis, the Public Examinations Act 2024, and why deterrence alone can't fix a fragile testing system.
Local Government at 30+: The Unfinished 73rd and 74th Amendments
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on India's third tier of government — why the 73rd and 74th Amendments empowered local bodies on paper while…
Parliament’s Decline: Fewer Sittings, Less Scrutiny
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on the decline of parliamentary scrutiny in India: falling sitting days, collapsing committee referral, the money-bill route, and what…
After the Strike-Down: Electoral Bonds and Political Funding
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck the scheme down, and the unfinished problem of money, opacity, and…