Aug 8, 2026

I often pick inscrutable Tamil names for my software projects. Maybe you’ve been frustrated, unable to remember or pronounce these names. Why can’t I be a normal person and just pick an English name? Here’s why.

Tags: tamil, politics, india, software, colonialism

Oct 26, 2016

Two weeks ago, on October 15, in one of Concern’s reading sessions, we read the first chapter of Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. The book describes a propaganda model that describes how the mass media are not objective but rather publish news favourable to the government and the ruling elite. This is a short summary of the five filters of the propaganda model developed in the book.

Tags: politics