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By Geeta Mohan In a gesture of solidarity, Afghan diplomats in New Delhi joined in the protests being held outside the Embassy of Afghanistan to condemn the attack that took place in Jalalabad on Sunday, killing 19 Afghans and wounded…

The recent stand-off between Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and the Delhi government brought into sharp focus the “asymmetry in the architecture of governance” in the Union Territory based in the national capital, a steady…

The funeral of AFP photographer Shah Marai. Photo courtesy Andrew Quilty. This article is a collaboration between CJR and the Committee to Protect Journalists. By Jon Allsop, Aliya Iftikhar, and Mehdi Rahmati MAY 14, 20186667 WORDS It was…

Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal Dear Madam, We are a group of women journalists from states across India. We have noted with concern that on Monday, April 23, which was the last day of nomination for the…

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…

By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal There are two predominantly visible strands in the heinous rape and murder case of 8-year-old Asifa. One is the perpetuation of the crime and the other is the discourse in defence of the culprits There are…

As reports emerge that Geo News has been taken off air in various areas across the country, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has categorically denied that her ministry has issued any directives for the…

As India stoops to conquer Nepal by laying out the red carpet for the visit of prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli later this week, it is indicating a new self-awareness that its foreign policy missteps have allowed China to gain ground in the…

Members of the South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) would like to express their strong condemnation of the shameful manhandling of two women journalists by personnel of the Delhi Police, covering a protest march by students and teachers of the…

The most important image of women in the media was their “non-image”: Margaret Gallagher’s succinct formulation dating back to 1981 inspired some of us in journalism to look a little closer at what was then termed as “women’s representation…