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By Uttara Gangopadhyay On August 9, 2024, the Bengal chapter of Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI-Bengal) organised a panel discussion on the political turmoil in Bangladesh. The objective was to better understand the situation following the quota reform movement...
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...
By Rakhi Ghosh The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the leading regional party in Odisha, has been continuing with its 2019 promise of reserving 33 percent seats for women candidates for Lok Sabha elections. It is also one of the first states in the country to implement 50...
By Rituparna Chatterjee In 2018, at the peak of the #MeToo movement in India, Fairoz Khan, an official from the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party (INC), stepped down after a complaint of sexual harassment was filed against him. At the time, the Congress...
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...
By Vanaja C Women make up less than 10 percent of contestants in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections. Vijaya Reddy is one of them. She is contesting from the Khairatabad constituency of Hyderabad on the Indian National Congress ticket. It is a triangular fight...
By Rakhee Roytalukdar Is there anything known as women’s vote in Indian elections? Women voters are generally not rigid when casting their votes. Sanjay Kumar of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) had written an article in Mint some years ago :...
The Network of Women in Media, India is shocked at the disparaging remarks made by the Tamil Nadu President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr K Annamalai, to a woman journalist in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, during a press meet on October 1. Responding to her question on...
InkSights is a monthly series by NWMI member Anupama Bijur viewing current affairs through a gender and news lens.
InkSights is our monthly series by illustrator, artist and NWMI member Anupama Bijur. She will visually examine the intersection of gender and the media for us.
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 Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
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...
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 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...
With elections to the Legislative Assemblies in four states (Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Karnataka) coming up soon, the Network of Women in Media, India, in association with 101 Reporters, a pan-India network of grassroots reporters, organised a workshop on gender inclusivity during election coverage.