Durba Ghosh, Guwahati Bureau Chief of the Press Trust of India and member of the Network of Women in Media, India, has been conferred the Brahmaputra Valley Journalism Award by the Assam State Journalists Union (ASJU).
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Elections 2026: What Cash Transfers Actually Mean for Assam’s Women
In Assam, the BJP doubled down on efforts to woo over 1.25 crore women voters through cash transfer schemes such as Orunodoi, targeted at economically vulnerable households, Mukhya Mantrir Nijut Moina for female students in higher secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate levels and Mukhya Mantri Mahila Udyamita Abhiyaan for women in self-help groups. In village after village, many women voters vouch for how these direct benefit schemes have helped them. But concerns remain over patchy implementation and whether these schemes are addressing deeper issues like stagnant incomes and a precarious labour market.
Media, Conflict, Climate Change and its Impact on Women at 2025 NWMI National Meeting
By Editors The countdown begins for the Network of Women in Media, India’s 19th National Meet in Guwahati from 31 January-2 February 2025. This year's theme is ‘Media, Conflict, Climate Change: Impact on Women’. More than 200 women mediapersons from across the...
In Assam, more women vote, but fewer women candidates in the fray
By Durba Ghosh The number of women candidates has been on the decline since 2014, but women voters are turning out in greater numbers than men. Promises galore have been made and benefits doled out but in Assam, even as women outnumber the male voters, the...
Being a journalist in Karbi Anglong
By Helvellyn Timungpi At the NWMI meeting in Mumbai, February 2024. Photo courtesy: Supriya Unni Nair Helvellyn Timungpi from Diphu, recipient of the Sixth NWMI Fellowship for Women Journalists shares highlights of her journey over the past year. Karbi Anglong is an...
Positive trend in women’s representation in electoral politics in northeastern India
By Ninglun Hanghal There has been a positive churning in electoral politics in northeastern India in recent years. Women are slowly but surely making their way into state Legislative Assemblies as elected members (MLAs). Although the numbers are still relatively small...
The Loneliness of Hira Barua, translated by Ranjita Biswas wins the PFC-Valley of Words Award, 2021
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...
Muslim women in Assam assert democratic rights
By Durba Ghosh They may be derogatorily labelled as 'Bangladeshis' or 'miyas', but the descendants of Bengali Muslims of erstwhile East Bengal origin in Assam, particularly the women of the community, have firmly asserted their democratic rights in the recently...
Drop in number of women candidates in Assam Assembly polls
By Durba Ghosh This year, political parties in Assam have made promises galore to woo women -- 49.35 per cent of the electorate. The promises range from giving Rs 2,000 per month to housewives, Rs 365 as daily wages to tea garden workers, and increasing financial...
A Women’s Manifesto in Assam
By Durba Ghosh Women in Assam comprise nearly 50 per cent of the total electorate. Political parties have definitely taken this into consideration during the ongoing election season, wooing them in order to win votes in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly polls in...
“Protect Privacy of Survivor of Rape”: NWMI
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) deplores the attempt to harass and intimidate the family of a minor rape survivor by Samsul Rehman, a stringer from the Guwahati-based DY365 news channel and Amar Asom newspaper. According to information received by the...
NWMI condemns Assam Police attack on journalists
Two women and three male journalists were gravely injured in the incident on the Assam-Mizoram border at Hailakandi on March 10. Attacks on journalists in the Northeastern states of the country have become dangerously routine.