Once a prized possession for Twitter users who achieved some level of prominence, the blue tick now is up for grabs for $8, and some troublemakers on Twitter are willing to pay for it.
by Ulfat Iqbal Rather The need of the hour is that law enforcing agencies need to check the spread of hatred, homophobia and privacy breach by holding people accountable and not letting them celebrate the evils that defunct the social fabric of India.
The ‘Bulli Bai’ app controversy, the latest in a series of such attempts over the last few months at shaming and objectifying outspoken Muslim women in the public sphere, has brought to the fore again the need for reform in the legal mechanism to deal with the harassment of women online in India through foreign-based platforms.
In the past few years, a significant number of young men and women in India have been attracted to a dangerous alt-right digital ecosystem called 'trad-wing', in which they serve as self-styled civilisational warriors.