A few decades back we could count women in Media on our fingertips. The number has been increasing over the time and has helped a lot of women to come forward and represent many other women in our society. T.V, Radio, Video games, Social media, Newspapers, or magazines, be it…
Category: Media Analysis
Manipur Filmmaker: Haobam Pawan Kumar
Manish JaisalAssistant Professor at Mandasaur University The director, screenwriter, producer Haobam Pavan Kumar, a resident of Imphal, Manipur, has brought together an aspect of the history of Indian cinema that a film audience and the film’s greats will never forget. Pawan, who was a disciple of Manipuri cinema’s Areebam Sharma,…
How people react to the news of political leaders getting corona?
When the news came about Boris Johnson tested positive with Corona virus a range of reactions of people happened in social media. Some people appeared to be very happy, making jokes around the situation. One or two week before testing positive, Boris Johnson made a statement saying that their is…
The Illusion of LGBTQ+ Privilege
Why does the mainstream media portray only rich, creative, white-collared people as LGBTQ? Are the LGBTQ+ restricted to a certain class? (Source: Popsugar, 2017) In my second year of Degree College, in a paper on culture studies, we were told to read an article, titled, “Can the Subaltern be Gay?”…
Ambedkar Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship for university students
Journalism in India has freedom movement embedded in it. It was the tool used by many revolutionaries to express their dissent during the freedom struggle. We often forget the role of Bhagat Singh and Dr. B.R Ambedkar in their important intervention in print media, when they started writing not only…
What’s The Fuss About Sukant Khurana’s Art?
Recently at an art exhibition in New Delhi, I met Dr. Sukant Khurana. Sukant is a scientist, artist, writer, and entrepreneur.He was born in Delhi and has spent most of his professional career in United States. His science focusses on ameliorating human suffering and coming up with innovative data science solutions, while his…
Conflict in Circulation
Rishita Sankrit A student at Kirori Mal college, Delhi What is the one thing that’s common between the Bastar district of Chattisgarh, the Kashmir valley and Manipur? They might have a revered human rights’ activist, a UPSC topper or a world renowned boxer, the only time we turn our attentions…
Pokemon Go : The organized desire
Alfie Bown Co-editor of Hong Kong review of Books, Published first on Roarmag.org In 2010, Google started up a subsidiary, Niantic Inc. Google starts up a lot of companies each year and acquires many more. Google’s acquisition of every start-up and endless development of subsidiary companies with different names is…
Times of Inception (ToI)
August Print Issue Inception here is the art of implanting another person’s idea into a reader’s subconscious. The coverage of Times of India on “Bastar Speak Up” event at Dadar, Mumbai, the rally against demolition of Ambedkar Bhavan and protest by data entry reporters intersect an imagination. This imagination labels…
Dissecting the Communal: An informal talk with the filmmaker Nakul Singh Sawhney
Pradeep Pillai On the 4th of February, Cinema of Resistance (Mumbai Chapter) organized an informal talk with Nakul Singh Sawhney, director of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai on the challenges of making a documentary film on communal violence. The event saw a sizeable number of students attend and engage the director with…
Internet for the Rich, Free Basics for the Poor
The first thing that strikes one about the ad is the fakeness of the smiles. It’s like they haven’t even made an attempt to make them look realistic. And why should they? The ad is in an English newspaper, read by educated people, mostly in cities. It is assumed, that…
Goenka Awards : Honor all without favors
Cut to November 23, 2015 and the Ramnath Goenka awards in the capital. Journalists like Siddiqui did not find even an honorary mention in a ceremony that attracted some of the biggest names in Indian politics and the arts. Though Siddiqui lost his life while on duty, a Delhi-based reporter won the award for reporting on the Kashmir floods.
And the Goenka award goes to Self
Jo tumne wo dekha suna, Sach tha Magar ye Kitna tha Sach ye kisko Pata… Ramnath Goenka award for best journalism in hindi went to Sudhir Chaudhry, editor of Zee news. He is the one who was accused in Jindal extortion case for 100 crores, caught on camera related to…
‘Dear Mandela’ : A documentary for housing rights in South Africa screened at Mumbai Slum
Dear Mandela was screened at Kannamwar Nagar, Vikhroli on 25th Oct in Mumbai, in solidarity with Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, a housing right movement in the metropolitan. The screening was to bring together struggle of slum dwellers, urban poor from different geography. Around two hundred people were present during…
Un-supering the hero: Reading status quo into fantasy
.. fantasies, in so much as they render real the surreal may also take flight from the real and render subversion onto our cinematic imagination. While Bahubali holds out a promise only for the former, it also restricts the cinemascape by the limitations that it sets out with – limitations of a social imagination that it has neither the will nor the intent to challenge.
Film Review: Qissa- The tale of lonely ghost
Qissa is a fable that centres on the human dimension of the drawing of borders. The film is a lingering view on the disruptive consequences of the change of borders and on the reciprocal side of identity.
Media carnival of death
An opportunity for the inquisitive, generally concerned upper/middle class mind to encounter an Ota Benga (a Congolese man displayed within the monkey house of an American human zoo in the early 20th century) or a Sarah Baartman (a South African Khoisan woman displayed in Western Europe around early 19th century for her “large buttocks”) from within the plush comforts of once own four cornered space one calls home?
Hash with feminism: #Whyloiter #PussyRiot
Hashtags of feminist causes, are invoked by social media users worldwide in response to contemporary events and discussions. According to who is user and who is hashtagging it, they are taken up by newspapers, television, and other media outlets as stories of collective public opinion and, sometimes, further action.
Beard : Housing :: Media : State
I was almost declared a terrorist in centre of Delhi at Connought Place, on 25th January 2010 by a sitting Police men, because I had a hotel card from Ladakh (J&K), where I volunteered for flood relief. He saw medal hanging in my arse, as I passed by him and the excitement increased with me wearing beard and a card of J&K in my wallet.
Mediarchy : Female Journalist in Navi Mumbai
If you are not married and not pregnant you get good payment apart from dependence on number of words and article you contribute.
There is a big gender bias both in print and digital media. Maternity leave should be compulsory and should be extended on case to case basis. Atleast they should give leave without pay, or give some role to work from home. Most of the women in the profession are single. The male mentality is that children reduces the efficiency.
IMAGINING AIDS on the screen
There are diseases and then, there is AIDS. It is difficult to think of any other disease which takes as much a psychological and social toll on its victim as a physical one.