SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

SAWM India is proud to collaborate with WAN IFRA  for panel discussion on  Gender in the Media: Does Gender Parity Exist? Digital Media India Conference and Newsroom summit India 19th February 2019 - Hyatt Regency Mumbai dmi.wan-ifra.org…

The refugees had arrived in the northern Indian city to try to rebuild their lives. Now, they are being compelled to flee again. Abdul, a middle-aged Rohingya man, sells odds and ends at a makeshift shop at the Bhatindi refugee…

Even today, a majority of Indian women cannot walk out of unhappy, incompatible or abusive marriages because they don't have the social and economic capital to do so An interesting statistic was bouncing around the Internet the…

CPM Pinarayi Vijayan criticises the Congress-led Madhya Pradesh government for its move to invoke the stringent National Security Act against those arrested on charges of cow slaughter, calling it “against the secular character” of India.…

If politics is largely about optics, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra just scored a big hit in that department. On a day when she formally entered politics and took over as Congress’s general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka…

Speaking Thursday in what could be his last speech in the 16th Lok Sabha, Modi accused the Congress of bullying the judiciary, compromising with the national interest and humiliating the Army. SHARPLY drawing the battlelines for the…

On January 24, 1979, the Left Front government in West Bengal cut off supplies of all essential commodities to Marichjhnapi. Section 144 had already been imposed around the area. Police boats surrounded the island in the Indian Sunderbans,…

Trinamool Congress National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien recently began taking Hindi tuitions and a teacher comes daily at his residence in Delhi to help him converse better in the language. Kolkata: Trinamool…

‘Oh to be in Kolkata, now that poll-itics are here!’ Yess, shotti, the battle cry was mother’s milk to me, and i was deliciously weaned on the historic clashes of the 60s. Reduced to yearning from afar during CPM’s invincible sway and then…

The Saudis, Israelis and New Delhi didn’t want the two visits to take place so close to each other, given that the two countries are seen to be sworn diplomatic antagonists. New Delhi: Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin…