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“As a translator I know that there is a fascination in living at such close quarters with a writer, engaging with every word they wrote, try...

“Left to itself, every literature will exhaust its vitality if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one.” – Jo...

Obtaining data on the Indian book publishing industry is not only difficult, it can also be misleading… with various publishers quoting vari...

Searching for information on the book publishing industry in India is a frustrating experience. Internet searches generate miscellaneous and...

Western media may be replacing the printed word with the digital, but, in India, print still rules. Contrary to Western media trends, the pr...

“Reading in America, as in many rich countries, is down. A study by the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent federal agency, says...

“There are those of us who no longer read a newspaper’s print edition, and we’re not coming back. It’s now time to consider some options to ...

“But most cultural practices stop at the scale of human collectives: cities, economies, networks. You need to understand how communities now...

The way youngsters consume media today may be a telling story. It may give us a few pointers on the way news, entertainment and even educati...

The Economist.com article I had quoted from in my previous post, From literacy to digiracy , ends with: “So, no surprise that when we incarc...

“For anyone under the age of 20, the world being experienced is one where the internet has always existed, and where everyone who matters is...

Several ‘generation now’ friends of mine responded with dismay to my previous posts. They said that their generation (typically 15-24 years)...

Nothing happens in a vacuum; specifically when we speak of socio-cultural phenomena. Societies, traditions and culture evolve over time, car...

There is a great deal of talk of India’s ‘generation now’ – not just in blogs like mine, but also by the media at large. As young Indians, t...

The Inma Martinez quote in my previous post is quite interesting. Interesting, at least, on two counts: (a) the ‘generation now’ description...

“I’m on Vodafone, so lucky me, I’m one of the punters that this week can download a new track from her album every day. Yeepee-Hey. ‘Candy S...

In my previous post, I talked about the new threat of ‘illegal downloading’ (colloquially termed ‘piracy’) which is changing the business of...

The demand for, and consumption of, digital music is going through frantic change. Digital technology may have made distribution of music ea...

I can think of only one reason for this recent surge of personal interaction/communication between youths – both online and on mobilephones....

The new relationships that we – or, at least, the youth today – are establishing using the latest mobile, telecom and Internet technologies ...