Can the subaltern tweet?: Holding Big Tech accountable on caste

How can reparative redress for caste-based humiliation, hate speech and violence online be achieved?

Paula Chakravartty

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Rohit Chopra

· Jun 16, 2021 · 09:00 am

Gita: A new book says its focus on action in the face of uncertainty makes it important for our time

An excerpt from ‘The Gita for a Global World’, by Rohit Chopra.

Rohit Chopra

· May 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

The catastrophic cost of junk science, bogus information and the Hindutva inferiority complex

Pseudo-science will be the death of us.

Rohit Chopra

· May 01, 2021 · 07:30 am

India’s Covid-19 crisis is a product of the paranoid governance that has marked the past seven years

Modi has refused to take responsibility for the toxic combination of incompetence and authoritarianism that marks his government’s actions.

Rohit Chopra

· Apr 22, 2021 · 06:30 am

What explains Indian-Americans being anti-Trump but also pro-Modi?

Indian-Americans, or more specifically, upper-caste Hindu Indian-Americans, have managed to have their identity cake and eat it too.

Rohit Chopra

· Mar 02, 2021 · 06:30 pm

Twitter’s capitulation to India’s repressive government shows that only some lives matter

Indian Muslim and minority lives simply don’t.

Rohit Chopra

· Feb 15, 2021 · 07:30 am

Two tweets that rattled a global superpower: Indian sovereignty and desi celebrity outrage

The response to tweets by Rihanna and Greta Thunberg reveals a deep national insecurity and anxiety about India’s place in the world.

Rohit Chopra

· Feb 05, 2021 · 06:30 am

The Trump Twitter ban, the hypocrisy of Big Tech – and what it means for India

It is an easy and safe response, given that the US president has less than 10 days left before he has to formally cede power.

Rohit Chopra

· Jan 15, 2021 · 06:30 am

The power of the farmer protests and the limits of the Arnab-watching classes

The faultlines of the Hindutva project are showing.

Rohit Chopra

· Dec 23, 2020 · 09:00 am

As CAA protestors reclaim national symbols, an echo of the freedom struggle is heard across India

The assertion of familiar tropes of nationhood reflects the awareness that the manner in which Modi has sought to define India is inimical to its ethos.

Rohit Chopra

· Jan 19, 2020 · 06:30 am

This is how Hindu identity became the basis of India’s right wing ecosystem on the internet

An excerpt from ‘The Virtual Hindu Rashtra: Saffron Nationalism And New Media’, by Rohit Chopra.

Rohit Chopra

· Dec 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Despite their conspiracy theories, Hindutva backers raise valid concerns about Indian history books

But if they want to be taken seriously, Hindu nationalist ideologues must honestly examine their roots of collaboration with British colonisers.

Rohit Chopra

· Sep 16, 2017 · 08:00 am