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India’s ‘female kingmakers’
This article (6 April 2014), attributed to AFP, on India Times, about Jayalalitha, Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, is largely dismissive of the three politicians. It opens with exaggeratedly distorted (graphic) caricatures of the women. The headline – ‘Lok Sabha...
Boys make ‘mistakes’, Girls file ‘false reports’
At a Moradabad election rally (April 10), Samajwadi party leader Mulayam Singh opposed the new rape law saying that since rape was a “mistake” made by boys, it didn’t deserve the death penalty. Instead, his party will attempt to reverse the new law and take legal...
Good news about bad news
The first day of the ongoing, prolonged general elections dominated by personalities and characterised by personalised invectives brought some relief in the form of a quiet, meaningful gender-focussed report from Bhiwani (Haryana) by Mayank Aggarwal. The story,...
NWMI protests against unethical and illegal media coverage of Tehelka case
The NWMI has sent strong letters of protest to the Press Council of India and the Editors’ Guild of India about two recent articles on the Tehelka case, based on CCTV footage, which disregard the law as well as journalistic ethics.