by Annie Philip | Feb 24, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Janaki Srinivasan (Guest Post) When campaigning for the assembly elections in Punjab began in earnest over two months ago, it seemed like gender issues in general and gender inequality in particular would finally become an issue in the electoral battle. These...
by Annie Philip | Feb 22, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Meher Ali It is not as if the public does not care. In 2017, Climate Trends, a communications company, conducted a survey in six cities in Uttar Pradesh to find out whether the public in the most populous state cared about climate change. The United Nations...
by Annie Philip | Feb 19, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Geeta Pandey The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently said he was confident that women in Uttar Pradesh would vote for the BJP because, under his party’s rule, the state had become a place that was “safe and full of opportunities for women”. But how real is that...
by Annie Philip | Feb 17, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
By Editors Campaigning for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is in full swing and reporters are scurrying around the state looking for under-reported stories. Journalists from “mainstream” media tend to go to the popular districts, featuring prominent...
by Annie Philip | Feb 10, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Annie Philip “Everything was building up,” says this former Delhi University assistant professor on her debut journey into electoral politics. Anuroop Kaur Sandhu, 29, is a candidate with the newly formed Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) party from Muktsar constituency...
