SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

As India stoops to conquer Nepal by laying out the red carpet for the visit of prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli later this week, it is indicating a new self-awareness that its foreign policy missteps have allowed China to gain ground in the…

The 16th Lok Sabha Elections in 2014 represented something of a watershed in the country’s politics, with the campaign juggernaut fronted by the present prime minister, Narendra Modi, estimated as one of the most expensive ever in the…

Delivering the valedictory speech at the plenary session of the Congress last week, an impassioned party president Rahul Gandhi declared that his first task was to break the “two walls” in Indian politics — the wall between party workers…

Members of the South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) would like to express their strong condemnation of the shameful manhandling of two women journalists by personnel of the Delhi Police, covering a protest march by students and teachers of the…

The most important image of women in the media was their “non-image”: Margaret Gallagher’s succinct formulation dating back to 1981 inspired some of us in journalism to look a little closer at what was then termed as “women’s representation…

‘Arunachalam Muruganantham’ is slipping off everyone’s tongue as easily as kollu rasam. So, i’m jumping on the Padwagon too. My story dates to a time when Akshay Kumar wasn’t even a Twinkle in his father’s eye, but i hope it will tickle…

The Sri Lankan government has imposed an island-wide emergency in the wake of anti-Muslim violence in Kandy, a city in the central highlands, on March 4-5, and in Ampara, a district with a near equal population of Muslims and…

As it became clear that the Samajwadi Party was heading to victory in the bye-elections in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted to congratulate the winners, claiming the result showed…

On March 6 evening, as news began to filter in of a Lenin statue being razed in south Tripura, Rajat Sethi, a member of BJP general secretary Ram Madhav’s team which had just conquered Tripura, tweeted, “Stalin falls in Tripura!” In his…

Speech by NDTV executive editor Uma Sudhir while accepting Chameli Devi Jain award for 2017. Very honoured to be chosen for the Chameli Devi Jain award for 2017. I have several people to thank. First the Media Foundation, the jury…