The Wire controversy ….. In early October, the India-based news reporting site The Wire and Social Metaverse company Meta was involved in an internet battle that grabbed serious media headlines. It all started with stories that the Wire put up against Meta, alleging the latter of giving the IT head of the ruling Bharatiya Janta […]
Are Indian family WhatsApp Groups promoting salient misogyny?
Sexism, closeted or otherwise, has an unfortunate but almost inevitable presence in Indian Family Whatsapp Groups. Growing up in a middle-class family, I was added to my family WhatsApp group when I was 17. The always ongoing conversations never fascinated me, and the usual birthday messages were always dreaded. I naturally muted the text notifications […]
