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Patricia Mukhim is Editor, The Shillong Times published since 1945 from Meghalaya’s capital of Shillong. She has been a long-standing columnist having written articles since 1987 on issues of India’s North East - a region comprising seven states which is very little understood outside of itself. Before taking on the mantle of editorship in 2008, Patricia has been a gender activist and authored a book – “Waiting for an Equal World,” which looks at gender relations in India’s North East. Patricia demystifies the myth that women enjoy a charmed life in matrilineal Meghalaya - a much romanticized notion. Amongst the many awards she has been conferred are the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding women media person in 1996 and the Padmashri in 2000.

Normalising the Death of a Free Press

Patricia Mukhim
A good chunk of the media is sold out to the establishment while the rest of us seem to have internalised the need to discipline our minds by not offending the power holders because the consequences are fearful to contemplate.

মণিপুর কি আর ভারতকে বিশ্বাস করতে পারবে?

Patricia Mukhim
ভারতের জেগে উঠতে সময় লাগল পাক্কা ৭৮ দিন। ভারতের উত্তর-পূর্বাঞ্চলীয় রাজ্য মণিপুর জ্বলছে গত ৩ মে থেকে। রাজ্যের ৫৩ শতাংশ মেইতি জনগোষ্ঠী আর ৪০ শতাংশ কুকি-জো সম্প্রদায়ের জনগোষ্ঠীর মধ্যে বিরোধ থেকে এ সংঘাতের শুরু। তারপরও যখন দুই নারীকে নগ্ন করে…