by Annie Philip | Apr 6, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Varsha Pillai (guest post) Kerala is one of the five states going to the polls today. This time too Kerala’s political partieshave displayed a very poor record of fielding women candidates, despite public revolts from women politicians (read more here) when the...
by Annie Philip | Apr 6, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
By Durba Ghosh This year, political parties in Assam have made promises galore to woo women — 49.35 per cent of the electorate. The promises range from giving Rs 2,000 per month to housewives, Rs 365 as daily wages to tea garden workers, and increasing financial...
by Annie Philip | Apr 5, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
By Vidyaa Ramkumar (guest post) “We would make better leaders. If we can control the finances and home so efficiently, why not a state”? asked the wife of a minister. “Though the number of women voters in Puducherry is high, when it comes to representation of women in...
by Annie Philip | Mar 31, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections
By Shrabonti Bagchi Growing up in a Bengali household in the 1980s, cassette tapes were as essential a part of ‘learning about culture’ as bound volumes of Tagore’s works and novels by Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay and Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay – many of them wedding...
by Annie Philip | Mar 26, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections
Has coverage of Elections 2021 amplified unsavoury, sexist comments for the sake of readership, viewership and/or clicks? Can the news media do better? If so, how? BOOM’s H R Venkatesh speaks with journalists Neha Dixit and Raksha Kumar (both NWMI members) about the...
