Misleading Propaganda‘The Kashmir Files’ Is a Harmful Film — Reducing It to ‘Propaganda’ Misses Why A film festival jury head called called Kashmir Files "vile propaganda." While the movie was hateful, dismissing a film for being propaganda can complicate how we view other political art. By Amlan Sarkar
Call Out the Cop OutWhy ‘Copaganda’ Makes For Bad Entertainment An upcoming Hindi series called 'Indian Police Force' glorifies cops the way many other films have in the past -- but the ideological undertones are sobering. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
So Much News So Little SubstanceWhy There’s More Distraction, Less News in the Media Breathless coverage of a star-kid's arrest over farmers' deaths and Pandora Papers is an example of political 'media priming.' By Rohitha Naraharisetty
A Shaky PedestalWhat Explains Societal Obsession With Erecting Statues in a Post‑Truth World? When our reality, values, and knowledge keep changing, it makes little sense to have a symbol of permanence installed on a physical pedestal. By Saumya Kalia