by Editors | Sep 29, 2023 | Awards, Network News
By Editors NWMI member Rupsa Chakraborty received first prize at the Statesman Rural Reporting Awards, 2022, for her reports on the conditions of adivasis in Nandurbar district in Maharashtra, displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam project. In her four-part series...
by Annie Philip, Editors | Jul 10, 2023 | Awards, Network News
By Editors It’s time again to congratulate one of our own! We’re very proud to announce that our member Poornima R has been awarded the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha award for Excellence in Writing in Kannada this year. Poornima, the debut awardee for this honour...
by Editors | Jun 30, 2023 | Awards, Network News
By Editors Among the four recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2023 International Press Freedom Awards is NWMI member Shahina KK. In CPJ’s own words, “Shahina is a veteran Indian journalist who has worked across print and...
by Editors | Jun 24, 2023 | Features, Reporter’s Notes
25 June 2023 marks the 48th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Emergency in India in 1975. That tyrannical period in the nation’s history ended on 21 March 1977. In 2015, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, we had carried the accounts of various...
by Editors | May 26, 2023 | Features, Reporter’s Notes
This article by network member Urmi Rahman is based on the paper she presented at the International Conference on Bangladesh: Revisiting Freedom and Independence organised by the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on 30 and 31 March,...