Editor’s Letter
With everything that has been happening in the news recently, we thought it was a good time to analyse the current status of media in...
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- Sep 7, 2020
- 10 min
The Rise Of Satire News
On 24th September 2010, in a publicised congressional hearing, Stephen Colbert, a comedian, gave his testimony to a judiciary...
- Sep 4, 2020
- 10 min
The Vast Potential of Graphic Narratives in Shaping Conversations Surrounding Socio-Political Issues
Reading Time: 10min I sat in silence, stunned, and slowly shut the book. I held it to my chest for a moment before immediately flipping...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 10 min
Literature and Propaganda
Reading Time: 10min “The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such...
- Aug 31, 2020
- 26 min
Shakuntala Banaji Interview: Media and Citizens
Shakuntala Banaji is Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where she also...
- Aug 29, 2020
- 7 min
How Long Before Indian Media Has Its #DalitLivesMatter Movement?
‘Mooknayak’ was the first newspaper catering to the oppressed classes, on January 31, 1920. Recently many Indians took to social media to...
- Aug 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Role Of Artists In Information Dissemination
As I soak in my contemplative existentialism, I often have to remind myself of how our daily tensions result largely due to the...
- Aug 25, 2020
- 9 min
Whose News Story Is It Anyway – A Reporter Or An Organisation’s?
Reading Time: 9min For Shiba Kurian, deputy news editor at The News Minute (TNM), the story of Kerala interfaith couples harassed by...
- Aug 23, 2020
- 7 min
In-Between Development – Freezing Time in a Changing Village
Reading Time: 6min In March 2019, I found myself in a quaint little village called Galgibag, resting at the edge of the Karnataka-Goa...
- Aug 21, 2020
- 8 min
The Khabar Lahariya Interview: India’s Only All-Women Run Media House
Khabar Lahariya is an all-women media house that focuses on rural journalism. The women who report the stories also edit, produce,...
- Aug 19, 2020
- 6 min
Of Archived Newspaper Clippings and Unclosed Tabs
Reading Time: 6min Sifting through old albums and papers at my grandfather’s house one day, I came across a yellowing newspaper carefully...
- Aug 17, 2020
- 7 min
Reporting In An Uncertain Time
On September 6, 2017, while we were attending a class on the influx of fake news and its utilisation by authoritarian bodies for their...
- Aug 15, 2020
- 10 min
Pressing the Press: Recalling the Emergency of 1975, an indelible blot on Indian Democracy
By analysing the autocratic leaderships of the past, one can observe a conspicuous similarity in the role of oppressive laws in...
- Aug 13, 2020
- 9 min
Abhinandan Sekhri Interview: The State of Media
Abhinandan Sekhri is co-founder and CEO of media critique, news, and current affairs website Newslaundry. He is also co-founder of Small...