Launching his book ‘The Anarchy: Post-Mughal Politics’, Dalrymple said: “It wasn’t white men that did the conquering, it was a brown sepoy army.”“At no point in its history did the East India company ever send out more than 2,000 white British soldiers, yet those 2,000 manage to conquer the area. During the session ‘How traditional media outlets are coping with the rise of social media’ which was moderated by Benazir Shah, panelists Arif Nizami, Munizae Jahangir, Zafar Siddiqi, and Marium Chaudhry agreed that digital media has changed traditional media. Social media still remains free and it is the voice of the oppressed”. “Audiences have also changed due to digital media preferences. Before the arrival of social media, we turned on the televisions but now we check apps first thing in the morning,” Mariam Chaudhry quipped in.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2020 16:18 UTC