SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal Dear Madam, We are a group of women journalists from states across India. We have noted with concern that on Monday, April 23, which was the last day of nomination for the…

South Asian Women in Media (India) condemns the attack on Meghalaya Journalist and Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, whose home was targeted by unidentified assailants in Shillong with a petrol bomb on April 17th. While it is…

Change often comes unannounced, and the government’s foreign policy moves over the past few months represent an unannounced but profound shift in its thinking about the neighbourhood. This could change the course of Prime Minister Narendra…

By Radhika Ramaseshan With elections in sight, the Sangh’s pursuit of hawkish Hindutva is inescapable and real. And Modi knows well how to couch the terms of engagement with the RSS Only the credulous would dismiss Surendra Singh’s…

By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal There are two predominantly visible strands in the heinous rape and murder case of 8-year-old Asifa. One is the perpetuation of the crime and the other is the discourse in defence of the culprits There are…

As reports emerge that Geo News has been taken off air in various areas across the country, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has categorically denied that her ministry has issued any directives for the…

Phew! I’m no longer feeling like a Louis Vuitton knock-off. Thank you, Modiji, for promptly revoking the I & B mantri’s diktat against journos dispensing ‘fake’ news. The I-rani had    ordered ‘Cut off their accreditation’ which, in our…

By Radhika Ramaseshan The next generation of assorted poster boys and girls speaks up unblushingly for the communal agenda of the RSS and BJP Locket Chatterjee, Bengali cinema’s winsome star, hardly qualified to march on the frontline of…