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The Journal of Truth - a short story

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Famila: a charcoal painting

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I composed this one long back, and gave it the name FAMILA. Some lines that needed to go remained and some more have since appeared because of aging and folding of canvas.

Governments and social media: what lacks is intent, not technology

I was going through social media networks of some governments and public organisations in India and abroad when this old concern resurfaced: How are Indian governments and public service organisations leveraging the potential of social media, and what is being achieved out of it? In the last few months, ‘social media’ has become a fashionable expression in government circles. Dozens of reports have appeared in major English newspapers on how government offices are adopting social media. Everybody is keen to be on Facebook and Twitter, either to comply with some order from the above, or to be seen tech-savvy, or to tom tom one's achievements. Not only the central government, state governments are equally keen to ride the social media bandwagon. Also Ministers. And senior officers. And PROs... From opening social media accounts and forgetting them, to using such accounts to broadcast daily engagements and ‘achievements’,  a lot is happening in this area. Governments have found