Business
Archive: Insulting Women to Sell Them Shoes
In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.
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India Politics
PM Narendra Modi's First Radio Address
On October 3, 2014, Modi launched Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio address that became a fixture of his premiership. A TI essay, from the archives.
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Featured Stories
After the Watching: What Women-Empowerment Videos Actually Do
In 2014, women-empowerment videos flooded YouTube. A TI essay asks the harder question: what happens after the watching?
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Bollywood
Open Letter to Deepika and Her Bollywood Supporters
If you weren’t living under a rock, the Bollywood aficionados among you have read about Deepika Padukone’s recent outburst on Twitter. She accused TOI of…
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Politics
'..tired, listless, without energy' — Washington Post Article That Angered Indian PM
The Washington Post's 2012 profile called Manmohan Singh 'a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat' — the UPA government demanded an apology.
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Entertainment
Ashley Judd's 'Puffy Face' Story — and the Response That Mattered More
Speculation about Ashley Judd's appearance in 2012 turned into a landmark media-criticism moment. What actually happened — and what she said back.
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Business
Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall Street Is Wrong
They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.
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Business
Rupert Murdoch's Empire Must Be Dismantled?
The 2011 phone-hacking scandal sank the News of the World and scarred Rupert Murdoch's empire — but the concentration of media power it exposed went nowhere.
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Politics
MCPs R Us: How We Put Down Women and Feel OK About It
The Radia tapes ensnared politicians, tycoons, and journalists. Yet the fury fixed on the women. On the gendered script of the 2010 tapes scandal.
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World Politics
Bill O'Reilly Says WikiLeaks Leaker Should Be Executed
Bill O'Reilly declared the WikiLeaks leakers 'traitors' who 'should be executed.' On the harshest end of America's 2010 debate over the cable disclosures.
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