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By Editors Starting in September 2024, the Mumbai chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India, conducted five webinars to help the media better understand Maharashtra in the run-up to the 2024 elections to the Vidhan Sabha. Political scientists, academics,...
By Sumayyah Qureshi In Anchar, a neighbourhood in the northern part of Srinagar, Kashmir, many women turned out to vote in the second phase of polling for the state’s legislative assembly elections, on September 25. Their concerns: incarcerated youth, the need for...
By Annie Philip From 78 to 74. In the week following the results of the 2024 General Elections in India (June 4-12), the fall in numbers of women elected to the 18th Lok Sabha emerged as a major headline in coverage of the elections in English media (print and...
The Madonna/Whore complex is a Freudian concept which describes the way many men tend to see women: as either saintly mother figures or immoral and debased women. Female politicians in India are often subjected to this binary perception.
By Sweta Singh International Women's Day (IWD) is around the corner and all the customary manels that routinely discuss politics and policies in India will no doubt soon begin to remember that women and other excluded genders need to be made visible – at least until...
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 On 18 May 2021, the news that KK Shailaja would not be returning as a minister in the second term of the LDF government in Kerala caused an uproar. As the much-admired health minister in the second year of the pandemic, she is now nearly a household name....
By Sushmita Goswami Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party (TMC) is all set to retain power in West Bengal, for the third consecutive time. The chances are that India will therefore continue to have at least one female chief minister. The country had started the...
By Kajal Bose and Smarajit Jana (Guest Post) Editors' Note: The NWMI condoles the untimely passing of Dr Smarajit Jana (68), founder and chief advisor of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), on 8 May 2021. A pioneer of the sex workers' rights movement in...
By Kavitha Muralidharan It was a mask not many had expected to fall. In the course of heated campaigning in Chennai on a sultry March day, former Union Minister A Raja – often seen as the intellectual face of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and perhaps rightly so...
By Shikha Mukerjee “Indecent, politically irrelevant and gender illiterate,” is the succinct assessment of a distinguished feminist scholar in Kolkata about the reaction of the political opposition and the media to the injury suffered by Trinamool Congress founder and...
Has coverage of Elections 2021 amplified unsavoury, sexist comments for the sake of readership, viewership and/or clicks? Can the news media do better? If so, how? BOOM’s H R Venkatesh speaks with journalists Neha Dixit and Raksha Kumar (both NWMI members) about the...
The attacks on journalists and press photographers covering the panchayat poll process in West Bengal is reprehensible. Such intimidation and violence adversely impacts free and fair reporting of the electoral process, and also impinges on the public’s right to know, says the NWMI