Middle Class on Steroids: Digital Media Politics in Urban India
Sahana Udupa
March 14, 2016
In this issue of India in Transition, Sahana Udupa, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and author of Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics, argues that social media expansion has fostered a distinct middle class voice in India’s public discourse, sparking an acrimonious debate culture around nation and nationalism.
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