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South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) is a network of women media professionals in South Asia. SAWM works for freedom of press, increased participation of women in the media, a gender-sensitive work environment and a gender-equal outlook in the media. Launched in April 2008, SAWM’s central secretariat is in Lahore, Pakistan and the association has country chapters in eight members of SAARC. SAWM helps women working in media to network across borders, and with international rights organizations, to assert their rights and defend their interests.

SAWM Condemns Attack on Patricia Mukhim

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South Asian Women in Media (India) condemns the attack on Meghalaya Journalist and Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, whose home was targeted by unidentified assailants in Shillong with a petrol bomb on April 17th. While it is…

Lunatic fringe? No chance

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By Radhika Ramaseshan With elections in sight, the Sangh’s pursuit of hawkish Hindutva is inescapable and real. And Modi knows well how to couch the terms of engagement with the RSS Only the credulous would dismiss Surendra Singh’s…

HINDUTVA’S NEW HATE BRIGADE

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By Radhika Ramaseshan The next generation of assorted poster boys and girls speaks up unblushingly for the communal agenda of the RSS and BJP Locket Chatterjee, Bengali cinema’s winsome star, hardly qualified to march on the frontline of…