A few decades back we […]
Manipur Filmmaker: Haobam Pawan Kumar
Manish JaisalAssistant Professor at Mandasaur […]
How people react to the news of political leaders getting corona?
When the news came about […]
The Illusion of LGBTQ+ Privilege
Why does the mainstream media […]
Ambedkar Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship for university students
Journalism in India has freedom […]
What’s The Fuss About Sukant Khurana’s Art?
Recently at an art exhibition […]
Pokemon Go : The organized desire
Alfie Bown Co-editor of Hong […]
Dissecting the Communal: An informal talk with the filmmaker Nakul Singh Sawhney
Pradeep Pillai On the 4th […]
Internet for the Rich, Free Basics for the Poor
The first thing that strikes […]
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, […]
‘Dear Mandela’ : A documentary for housing rights in South Africa screened at Mumbai Slum
Dear Mandela was screened at […]
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.