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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...
NWMI National Meeting 2025 at Guwahati
By Editors Picturesque Guwahati will be hosting the 19th national meeting of the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) from January 31 to February 2, 2025. Perched along the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra, Guwahati is nestled within an amphitheatre of verdant...
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...
All-women police team arrests rape-accused politician Prajwal Revanna
Nearly a month after he left India after videos of him, allegedly sexually abusing scores of women came out, suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna returned to Bengaluru on Friday, May 31. In a move he may not have anticipated, women officers from the Special...
You’ve got a long wait, lady
InkSights is a monthly series by NWMI member Anupama Bijur viewing current affairs through a gender and news lens.
Hello Moon, my old friend
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.
The (Absent) Women Volunteers in Political Campaigns
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...
What do women in UP’s remote districts want this election?
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...
On Human Rights Day, Afghan Women Journalists Speak
“I want to show the Taliban and their allies that women never accept defeat. Women have always been and will always be with us. With the support of committed women from other countries, we will once again strive to achieve the rights of Afghan women,” says...
GMMP 2020 : 6th Global Media Monitoring Project show quantitative gains, qualitative losses
By Editors All things remaining equal, it will take at least a further 67 years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media: Highlights from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy...
Women on Top
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...
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...
Lest We Forget
By Editors If you take a second to think about it, it’s an odd impulse that drives journalists – to go everywhere and bear witness. To believe their presence is crucial for the righting of the scales. To believe their eye will see the small detail of the miniature and...
Reaching out to women voters
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’,...
The gender gap in Puducherry
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...
Is he said she said enough?
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...
Will Nandigram’s daughters choose Bangla’r meye?
By Rajashri Dasgupta Nandigram is no ordinary village in West Bengal. Located about 150 kms from Kolkata, it was the epicentre of the agitation by farmers against land acquisition in 2007. Today it is once again in the eye of the storm: the state’s Chief Minister,...
Women in Kerala Politics: The Bald Truth
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Political parties are in a never-before tailspin in Kerala, flurrying to re-tailor the “women component” in their lists of candidates for the 2021 Assembly elections. The trigger? The State Mahila Congress President, Lathika Subhash, had...