Jarnail Singh,better known as the journalist who threw a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram,has found a more eloquent,non-footwear way to express his thoughts.
Camcorders and camera phones in hand, people are constantly capturing life in mp4 and 3gp files. As everything from the first footsteps to funeral rites becomes fodder for the camera-friendly masses, an extraordinary visual culture is on the rise
Malls, the amphitheatres of labels, the ersatz palaces of consumerist India, are more than shopping places. In Gurgaon and Guwahati, Bangalore and Vadodara, they are the new town squares
