Category Archives: Social Media

Why is Mahatma Gandhi’s killer posting on my Facebook wall?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated October 22, 2010.) Venkatesan Vembu On the walls of my Facebook ‘friends’, I’m quite used to seeing insightful postings about their bountiful harvest while playing frivolous Farmville games or their emotional outpourings … Continue reading →

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When a billion Indians jump on Twitter…

Posted on October 8, 2010 by

Are ‘We, the Tweeple’ finding a voice on the world stage or are we merely contributing to meaningless chatter? Venkatesan Vembu The week gone by gave some easily excitable Twitterati in India much cause for hashtag hubris. That’s because on … Continue reading →

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We’re all strangers in a strange world

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated February 17, 2010.) Venkatesan Vembu Last week, a 26-year-old female acquaintance, a child of the Internet Age who lives more in the virtual world than in the flesh-and-blood one that I inhabit, … Continue reading →

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The Diva of Twitter

Posted on July 31, 2009 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated July 31, 2009.) Venkatesan Vembu Some years ago, during a particularly slow-paced ‘silly season’ newsday, the editorial board meeting of a publication that I shall not name was seized of a momentous … Continue reading →

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