by Leena Reghunath | Feb 23, 2022 | 2022 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Kamalika Sengupta (Guest Post) As I boarded my plane for Imphal, my expectation was that my coverage of the Manipur Assembly election would definitely include stories related to women. One of the first things I tried to do soon after I landed in Manipur was to find...
by Leena Reghunath | Nov 25, 2021 | Awards
NWMI member Ranjita Biswas has won the PFC-Valley of Words Award, 2021, for her translation of The Loneliness of Hira Barua (Pan Macmillan, 2020) from the original Assamese to English. The collection of short stories, originally titled Mariam Austin Othoba Hira...
by Leena Reghunath | Sep 22, 2021 | Statements
A statement by NWMI Chennai, endorsed by the rest of the network, and Tamil Nadu Women Journalists Association was sent to the editors of a Tamil daily which carried the news of the death by suicide of a young female journalist. The news item was sensationalist,...
by Leena Reghunath | Aug 4, 2021 | Features, Reporter’s Notes
By Raihana Maqbool Two years ago, on 5 August 2019, the Government of India, in an unprecedented political cataclysm- unheard of in the entire history of democracy- revoked the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and unleashed a reign of...
by Leena Reghunath | May 13, 2021 | Gender, Media & Elections
By Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
