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The popularity of social media has made it easy for people to engage with and share ideas freely on an open platform. One’s online-sharing behaviour has enormous potential to shape others’ behaviours and thoughts. Studies have shown that altruistic motives are usually what prompt users to share news on the internet.
Memes, slang, and other online linguistic phenomena have invaded every aspect of our lives, and have changed the way the world speaks. With this, many language purists and common folk alike fear that this new language of the internet will take over its more eloquent counterparts. This article explores the quirks of this new linguistic variation, and whether it is harmful or a more intuitive way of communicating, unlike what we’ve ever witnessed before.
Are all documentaries political? Somnath Waghmare – the filmmaker behind documentaries such as I am Not a Witch, which took up the issue of witch-hunting in Nandurbar district, and Battle of Bhima Koregaon, which presents a historical narrative of Mahar soldiers (untouchables) defeating the Brahminical rule of the Peshwas – believes no form of art can be separated from politics.
