Image Building
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How authoritarian states manage their image abroad
Creating positive news, distracting and silencing critique, and shaping elite opinion help make the world safer for dictatorships.
Alexander Dukalskis, The Loop
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Facing a credibility crisis, Kerala’s Catholic Church launches TV channel to spread ‘positive news’
Shekinah TV, run by an evangelical movement under the church, comes on the heels of two top priests being charged with rape and corruption.
TA Ameerudheen
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To be a leading Bollywood publicist is to wake up every day and ask, ‘Where is the fire?’
Rohini Iyer, the founder of leading publicity and marketing company Raindrop Media, shares her experiences of dealing with the glam set.
Chandrima Pal
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As Madame Tussauds comes to India, a look back at the grisly story of the woman who started it all
Unlike London, New Delhi will not have a Chamber of Horrors.
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Lessons from Cuba about reclaiming symbols of a painful past
The story of Havana's National Capitol Building reveals that symbols are enduring and achieve iconic status.
Lyn Snodgrass, The Conversation
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Indian cricket team banned from visiting casinos in Australia: Report
The decision was reportedly taken to avoid the risk of the players running into the 'wrong people' or being spotted in locations that could be considered inappropriate.
Scroll Staff
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Caught on camera: Speeding driver lands in water, rescued through sunroof of sinking car
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‘The dictator will lose’: Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy’s virtual address at Cannes
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Watch: Odia mountaineer Sidharth Routray scales Mount Everest, flies the tricolour
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Watch: What Deepika Padukone, AR Rahman, Shekhar Kapur said at the Cannes film festival
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A Varanasi MLA is attempting to steal Modi’s development narrative
TheSamajwadi Party's Surendra Patel is trying to steal the prime minister's thunder by constructing roads and bridges in his constituency.
Dhirendra K Jha
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One year of Modi selfies with world leaders, Bollywood stars and many regular folk
The prime minister just shot the 'world's most powerful selfie'.
Sahil Bhalla