By Dhanusha Gokulan
I admit I’m an Instagram addict. However, I do not post pictures or videos. Instead, I lurk through thousands of profiles, hashtags, and trending videos. I even have two profiles on Instagram, one private and one public.
Continue reading Heard about that new app sensation that goes TikTok?
By Asma Ali Zain
I came across an image a few weeks ago of a group of veiled women walking in one direction and one of them, apparently breaking the ranks, walking in the opposite direction with a magazine in her hand.
Continue reading One image is all you need to get caught in a deluge of hate
By Sarwat Nasir
Armchair philosophers have long debated whether the chicken came first or the egg. In the crazy digital world, and moving with the times, that age-old existential question would have to be rephrased: what’s more important, the chicken or the egg? Depends on who has more likes on Instagram and retweets on Twitter. The only reliable measure of what is truly important these days, of course.
By Nivriti Butalia
A recent Gillette ad has divided people. Some hate it; some are saying, well done. I am in that ‘well done’ camp.
Continue reading Why are some men on edge over a sharp, sensible ad?
By Sushmita Bose
People do the strangest things for the sake of world records. They immerse themselves in snow for hours on end — clad in nothing but swimming trunks — to own the honours of being The One who spent the longest time in “direct full body contact” with freezing point. Or they cover their selves with bees: the more the better — because that’ll make them queen (or king) of an alternative, and human, version of the beehive. And so on.
Continue reading An easy 100 million yen. All you had to do was hit retweet
By Anita Iyer
All good things come to an end, they say. And we’re sad to see Swedes give up the official @Sweden handle on Twitter.
‘Curators of Sweden’, a project that started in December 2011 as an experiment which allowed a Swede to tweet for a week, came to an end on September 30.
Continue reading What if you were in charge of tweets for @OfficiallyDubai?
By Anamika Chatterjee
A part-hilarious-part-awkward moment on the job came for me way back in 2009. I had been working for a leading news magazine in Delhi then and was asked to edit a story on cervical cancer. The references made in the article led me to an achingly beautiful blog of a cancer survivor that kept me glued to my computer screen. I was seated close to a conference room where a meeting of senior editors had been going on. Taking a break, the seniormost editor stepped out of the meeting room, talking to someone on his cellphone who seemed important. He lurked behind me for a bit — I was too absorbed to take note of his presence. Soon, the never-ending phone call came to an end and he headed back to the conference room.
Continue reading Dear Twitter, high time you granted me that blue tick
