Saraswathy Nagarajan welcomed the gathering at the public meeting held on 7 February 2026 at Trivandrum Club, held as part of the 20th National Meeting of the Network of Women in Media in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Below is her speech.
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Nitish Kumar’s electoral lesson: Ignore the woman voter at your peril
Since he first took office in 2005, Nitish Kumar has designed programmes to meet the needs of women and girls and built himself a loyal vote base.
Priyanka Tupe wins inaugural Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender
By Editors Priyanka Tupe, a member of the Network of Women in Media, India, has been awarded the inaugural Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender 2024 by The Media Foundation. Priyanka Tupe is a senior correspondent of BehanBox, based in Maharashtra. The...
The Authority Gap Just Got Wider
On 6 November 2024, when the results of the US Presidential Elections came in, it prompted a discussion on whether the authority gap between men and women had just got wider. The authority gap is the difference between how men and women are treated, perceived, and...
Kashmiri women vote in hope of a better future for their sons
By Raihana Maqbool As Jammu and Kashmir awaits the results of the first Assembly election in a decade, it’s become clear that the votes of the women of Kashmir have been driven by three pressing concerns—freeing their sons and brothers from jails, improved...
We are here to vote: Women Voters in the J&K Assembly Elections
By Sehar Qazi Voting has concluded in the historically significant assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and votes will be counted on October 8. The voter turnout recorded by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in each phase of the Assembly elections was 61.4...
हरियाणा विधानसभा चुनाव 2024 : बेटियों की अनदेखी वाले राज्य में दांव जीत पाएंगी क्या विनेश फोगाट
By वर्षा सिंह पुरुषों के वर्चस्व वाले खेल कुश्ती की पहलवान विनेश फोगाट हरियाणा विधानसभा चुनाव 2024 में जिंद के जुलाना विधानसभा सीट से पहली बार राजनीतिक मैदान में उतरी हैं। पेरिस ओलंपिक में स्वर्ण या रजत पदक की प्रबल दावेदार विनेश हरियाणा के राजनीतिक दंगल में...
Will Haryana have its first female CM?
By Varsha Singh Haryana contributed the most number of women to India’s 2024 Paris Olympics contingent – of the 117 athletes who represented the country in the Olympics this year, 24 were from Haryana, and 14 of them were women. However, when it comes to politics, the...
Only 8% women MLAs elected in Haryana assembly since 1967
By Parvathi Benu From the first election to the Haryana state assembly in 1967 after the state was carved out of Punjab in 1966 to the one in 2019, a total of 839 candidates have become elected representatives. Of this 839, just 69 women – a measly 8% – have been...
Power, Politics and Sexual Violence: The Prajwal Revanna case and beyond
By Revathi Siva Kumar Poster image courtesy: Image courtesy: Sara Tunich Koinch/ Hri Institute for Southasian Research and Exchange https://hrisouthasian.org/changing-visual-narratives-stock-images-photographs/ On May 28, 2024, the Network of Women in Media, India...
Seeking Justice for Workplace Abuse: Lessons from the Hema Committee Report
By Najiya O The Kerala chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India, organised an online panel discussion on the topic ‘Seeking Justice for Workplace Abuse: Lessons from the Hema Committee Report’ on September 7, 2024. Moderator Saraswathy Nagarajan (senior...
NWMI expresses solidarity with WCC
With the release of the three-member Justice Hema Committee report on August 19, 2024, triggering discussions on gender safe workplaces, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) congratulates the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) for their trailblazing fight to end...
NWMI runs a series of popular workshops for better election reporting
By Vatsla Srivastava Earlier this year, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) joined forces with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to hold a series of powerful workshops for women journalists. This five-part program, held online in April and May 2024, aimed to...
World Social Media Day
June 30 is celebrated as World Social Media Day. While technology is empowering and enabling, it has also helped to transfer and recreate misogyny, sexism and violence against women in social networks. A few years ago, extreme misogyny existed on platforms like...
Who made the cut? A post-poll media analysis
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...
Gender, sex aur dhokha in the media during elections
By Ammu Joseph In the lead-up to the 2024 general elections in India, The Hindu’s data team had charted the trajectory of women’s representation in parliaments across the world. According to them, even though women’s representation in political spheres improved in the...
Road to Parliament remains tough for women in Gujarat
By Rupa Mehta Despite headlines about progress in Gujarat, women are still not represented in Parliament of state legislature For Gujarat, “freedom” of women has been a matter of pride, evidenced by people often repeating, “Here, women can go to dance garbha during...
The Madonna/Whore Complex in Indian Politics
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.
Wall of Shame: Watch What You Say
By Editors As we begin the 10th anniversary edition of the NWMI's Gender, Media and Elections initiative, launched in April 2014, we bring you a watchlist that provides evidence of the need to continue to keep an eye on gender-related aspects of electoral politics....
The water crisis hits differently for women
Many cities in India are experiencing water scarcity this summer. In Bengaluru, there’s a water emergency. According to Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, of 13,900 public borewells in the city, 6,900 have gone dry, and water in the Cauvery river, the chief source...