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By Preethi Nagaraj In electoral politics, men rule the roost. This is not only a fact but an evidently unchangeable fact and one that established more strongly with every passing election. After Independence, women expected increased representation in electoral...
By Editors News of the first two women MLAs to be elected to the state Assembly, Hekani Jakhalu and Salhoutuonuo Kruse, received prominent media coverage both within the state and elsewhere in the country. Salhoutuonuo Kruse also became Nagaland's first woman...
By Durba Ghosh The recently concluded Tripura Legislative Assembly elections have brought forth a skewed gender narrative. On the one hand, enthusiastic and politically conscious women voters have outnumbered their male counterparts in exercising their franchise...
By Bhanupriya Rao The panel, They Wrote The Elections, was organised on the third day of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) to talk about the coverage of elections by women journalists and to discuss how gender and caste...
By Hemakshi Meghani and team at Indian School of Democracy (Guest Post) I have had the privilege of working with inspiring political leaders from the grassroots. They are in politics to serve. They are leaders from disadvantaged communities that have been underserved...
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 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 Utsa Sarmin (guest post) The ongoing 2021 Legislative Assembly election in West Bengal has spawned a campaign called ‘No Vote To BJP’, which includes messaging meant specifically for women in the state. The campaign was launched by ‘Bengal against Fascist RSS-BJP’,...
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...
By Vidyaa Ramkumar (guest post) “We would make better leaders. If we can control the finances and home so efficiently, why not a state”? asked the wife of a minister. “Though the number of women voters in Puducherry is high, when it comes to representation of women in...
By Manjira Majumdar Every five years, the Assembly elections in West Bengal (WB) turn very critical. This year it is all the more so due to the fact that communal politics, which Bengal has never seen nor accepted – despite the experience of Partition based on...
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...
By Kalpana Sharma The tokenism that now marks International Women’s Day (March 8) has virtually become the norm. Politicians make ritual statements about women’s “empowerment”, the corporates and the retail sector reach out to their “market” consisting of women...