SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

The harassment and detention of Rozina Islam, an acclaimed, award-winning journalist with ‘Prothom Alo’, a leading Bangladeshi daily newspaper, and her being sent to jail subsequently, on charges of stealing and violating the Official…

South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), a network of women journalists across South Asia, is deeply concerned at the harassment and arrest of senior journalist Rozina Islam in Dhaka, Bangladesh by the authorities.

Unlike other times, people might not forget how and when they grieved. And that is what the “system” is afraid of.

Exclusiive Interview/ Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, founding member, Taliban

Exclusiive Interview/ Mohammed Umer Daudzai, Afghanistan’s special envoy to Pakistan

There is mayhem of minds and bodies

Even while grieving the loss of her father to Covid-19 the previous day, journalist Barkha Dutt was able to put aside her own pain to send out a powerful message to the world: “Don’t treat this as our problem alone,” she said in an…

When the tsunami hit India in 2004, the world offered to send relief material. India, however, politely refused the aid, saying it had the wherewithal to take care of its own. In the 15 years hence, India whittled down existing aid packages…

Mea culpa, rues Anurag Agarwal. Head of the CSIR-Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) in New Delhi, Agarwal coined the term ‘double mutant’, which has become the buzzword in India now. But he says he never intended it…

International TV channels have run visuals of waiting ambulances and patients outside hospitals, and cremations to underline India's lack of preparedness.