With the outbreak of COVID-19 the upcoming elections (in Bihar and other states) are getting all set to go online using various digital platforms. This would also mean that in the post-COVID era, the political campaigns will also no longer…
Category: Covid
United in Colors
As the world struggles with the global health pandemic Covid 19, trying to live with the new normal of social distancing, tens of thousands of US citizens are taking to the streets. These men and women are out there to…
Electioneering in the Digital (Covid) Times
“THIS IS NOT AN ELECTION RALLY. THIS IS A VIRTUAL RALLY TO BOOST THE MORALE OF THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” : Amit Shah, senior BJP leader at the Bihar Jansamvad (virtual) rally. An election in the backdrop of pandemic…
Infodemic in the age of Pandemic
As the world fights the coronavirus Pandemic, there is the other ongoing virus of fake-news. Image Courtesy : Daily Hunt Incidentally one of the first recorded “fake news” goes back to days of Mahabharata: Ashwatthama, son of Drona, is an…
Covid Change
As we now get used to the ‘new-normal’ living with the Covid-19 pandemic, till a vaccine is found, we see an unprecedented shift in the human behaviour. Normally any change in behaviour takes time – 66 days before a new behaviour becomes…