Issue 27

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...

The Rise Of Satire News

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

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...

Literature and Propaganda

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...