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...
by Annie Philip | Mar 24, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections
By Rajashri Dasgupta Nandigram is no ordinary village in West Bengal. Located about 150 kms from Kolkata, it was the epicentre of the agitation by farmers against land acquisition in 2007. Today it is once again in the eye of the storm: the state’s Chief Minister,...
by Annie Philip | Mar 21, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections
By Manjira Majumdar Every five years, the Assembly elections in West Bengal (WB) turn very critical. This year it is all the more so due to the fact that communal politics, which Bengal has never seen nor accepted – despite the experience of Partition based on...
