SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

Priyanka Dubey’s stirring acceptance speech at the Chameli Devi Award Ceremony I thank The Media Foundation and all the jury members for finding my work worthy of this prestigious award. While standing here, I am very much aware of the…

For the media to play its designated role, it must be impartial and unprejudiced in coverage of news and views connected with all segments of society, says former Vice President Hamid Ansari. Former vice-president Hamid Ansari delivered the…

If we study the history of woman and her contributions to the human society, we will realise that the role of woman in the evolution of society has been far bigger than that of the man. But this struggle has largely been ignored. However,…

IT was International Women’s Day on Friday. But it was hard for the other half of the country to stay silent for a mere 24 hours. They just couldn’t because the posters/slogans during the countrywide march were just so out there and…

South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) India is deeply concerned by the order of the Meghalaya High Court in a suo moto contempt proceeding initiated against “The Shillong Times” Editor Ms. Patricia Mukhim and its Publisher Ms. Shobha Chaudhury.…

Modi and Shah have injected professionalism in the BJP that’s out of step with the ‘chalta hai’ ways of the past India’s West has left an ineffaceable stamp on the BJP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah , the party…

MARGINALIA A phrase post the Balakot air-strikes repeatedly used by prime minister Narendra Modi and his man Friday Amit Shah, "Hamne Dushman ko Ghar mein ghuss kar mara hai" (We have beaten up the Enemy by entering his house), is…

CHENNAI, India—The seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have already spent 28 years in jail and the campaign to release them cannot be dragged on any further. The Supreme Court commuted their death sentences to…

In an interview with The Wire's Arfa Khanum Sherwani, the chairman of The Hindu publishing group talks about the Modi government's recent threats over the media's Rafale coverage. Earlier this week, the Narendra Modi government,…