Why Is Our Government Insistent on Changing the Constitution?
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Why Is Our Government Insistent on Changing the Constitution?

BJP ministers Anant Kumar Hegde and Yogi Adityanath have made it amply clear that they’d like to change the Constitution, the word secular particularly. They should listen to what advocate-activist Menaka Guruswamy has to say: The beauty of the Constitution is it compels us to unlearn the prejudices that we hold true.
Fake News and the Case of the Internet Police Gone Rogue
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Fake News and the Case of the Internet Police Gone Rogue

In the Cambridge Analytica exposé, Facebook has been negligent with sensitive data. Google was fined €2.42 billion by the EU for manipulating search engine results to favour its own shopping service. Do they then have a moral right to carry out the function of being the internet police?
Why Do We Inherit the Worst Traits of Our Parents?
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Why Do We Inherit the Worst Traits of Our Parents?

Growing up, I wanted to be nothing like my parents. I spent a significant part of my teenage years defining myself in opposition to my parents. Yet, over time, the very traits that I disliked about them slowly became my own – and that’s when I truly understood them.
“Editorial, You’re F***ed”
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“Editorial, You’re F***ed”

The reference to journalism as “content” implies that journalism isn’t about telling people things they need to know, but about grabbing as many eyeballs as possible.