by Annie Philip | Mar 24, 2023 | Awards
Acceptance speech of Dhanya Rajendran, Chameli Devi Jain awardee for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson 2022. Dhanya Rajendran is the co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of The News Minute. Someone told me that a good speech starts with an anecdote. I don’t know if...
by Annie Philip | Mar 13, 2023 | Gender, Media & Elections, International Politics, National Politics
By Swarna Rajagopalan (Guest Post) On March 1, 2023, Germany joined the small club of countries that have announced that they will now have a “feminist foreign policy.” Since Margot Wallstrom first announced Sweden’s feminist foreign policy (now retracted) in 2014,...
by Annie Philip | Mar 6, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Editors News of the first two women MLAs to be elected to the state Assembly, Hekani Jakhalu and Salhoutuonuo Kruse, received prominent media coverage both within the state and elsewhere in the country. Salhoutuonuo Kruse also became Nagaland’s first woman...
by Annie Philip | Mar 1, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Durba Ghosh The recently concluded Tripura Legislative Assembly elections have brought forth a skewed gender narrative. On the one hand, enthusiastic and politically conscious women voters have outnumbered their male counterparts in exercising their franchise...
by Annie Philip | Feb 27, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Aheli Moitra For representational purpose only. Women queue up to vote during the 2018 election in Nagaland. Nagaland votes on February 27 Nagaland got its first ever female Rajya Sabha MP, Phangnon Konyak, in 2022. She is the second woman from Nagaland to ever...
