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...

On 24th September 2010, in a publicised congressional hearing, Stephen Colbert, a comedian, gave his testimony to a judiciary...

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...

Reading Time: 10min “The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such...

Shakuntala Banaji is Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where she also...

‘Mooknayak’ was the first newspaper catering to the oppressed classes, on January 31, 1920. Recently many Indians took to social media to...

As I soak in my contemplative existentialism, I often have to remind myself of how our daily tensions result largely due to the...

Reading Time: 9min For Shiba Kurian, deputy news editor at The News Minute (TNM), the story of Kerala interfaith couples harassed by...

Reading Time: 6min In March 2019, I found myself in a quaint little village called Galgibag, resting at the edge of the Karnataka-Goa...

Khabar Lahariya is an all-women media house that focuses on rural journalism. The women who report the stories also edit, produce,...

Reading Time: 6min Sifting through old albums and papers at my grandfather’s house one day, I came across a yellowing newspaper carefully...

On September 6, 2017, while we were attending a class on the influx of fake news and its utilisation by authoritarian bodies for their...

By analysing the autocratic leaderships of the past, one can observe a conspicuous similarity in the role of oppressive laws in...

Abhinandan Sekhri is co-founder and CEO of media critique, news, and current affairs website Newslaundry. He is also co-founder of Small...