December 2005, Vikram Raghavan, Community Radio-India

This essay examines the legal and regulatory challenges faced by broadcasting in India as it grows in its multiple uses and enormous influence. It focuses on the tension between the Indian Constitution's guarantee of free speech and discusses whether the government can restrict broadcasting services more so than other forms of expression, such as newspapers or public speeches.

December 2007, Lopa Ghosh, i4donline

The article provides a window into the use of community media as a tool for engineering transformation in lives of women, particularly from those sections of society where their independence is significantly curtailed due to narrow social and religious practices. It reports on a recent study of the effect of the use of Internet among the women of a predominantly low-income Muslim community in East Delhi.

January 18, 2008, J.B.S. Umanadh, Frontline

This article introduces Sangham Radio, an FM community radio station in the Medak district of the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh. Sangham Radio, which is managed by mostly Dalit women, is among the growing number of Indian community radio stations that reach out to listeners with programming in local dialects. The station is run by the Community Media Trust, a part of the non-governmental organisation Deccan Development Society, which runs the station to recognise the possibilities for non-literate women as teachers and assist them in sharing their knowledge with the outside world by equipping them with skills of video and radio.

February 13, 2008, Deccan Herald

The relationship between open source software and proprietary systems have often been a strained one. However, this situation is changing with the acknowledgment of the need for both types of systems to harmoniously co-exist. Greater collaboration between proprietary and open source systems, as exemplified by the interoperability between Windows and Suse Linux points to this growing synergy.

2007, National Knowledge Commission

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC), a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, has made further recommendations to transfer the country into a knowledge society, in its second Report to the Nation. The new set of recommendations include creation of portals to ensure transparency in governance, initiation of an Indian Health Information Network, greater attention to traditional health systems, enhanced focus on legal, health and management education, support to open access and open educational resources and building up a world class intellectual property resources infrastructure.

March 16, 2008, The Times of India

A new disturbing phenomenon in the online space are websites that provide a guide to commit suicide. While the exact impact of such websites to increase suicide occurrences is still a subject of study, it is no doubt a very serious development which has to be looked at by both government and civil society in order to block potentially harmful content.