ARITRA BHATTACHARYA : Articles

Bringing hate video perpetrators to book

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |08/06/2018

The fact that Bangla Sanskriti Mancha activists were primary informants for most stories in the media highlights the role that city-based NGOs can play in bringing such issues to light,

Bastar: the story not told

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |13/02/2016

Rape, beatings and looting in Bastar by the security forces remain hidden because of media indifference.

Truth has two versions in Bastar

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/10/2015

Did villagers seek police help against Maoists or did they visit the police station to secure the release of villagers wrongly accused by police of being Maoists?

Between laughter and revolution

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/09/2012

Poets of Protest focuses on the lives and works of poets at the centre of resistance in the Arab world.

A selective notion of corruption

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |14/09/2012

Aseem Trivedi's picture of contemporary India reflects only political and bureaucratic corruption, bribery in particular.

Memory, imagination, and the camera

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/08/2012

Amir Bashir's Harud questions the process of image-making and serves as a counter-point to popular thinking on Kashmir.

Soni's story: propaganda and prejudice

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/08/2012

The writer has failed to study the factors that are central to understanding how the Maoist conflict affects individuals.

Do we need to be Angrezi?

BY ARITRA BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/07/2012

The Mint Lounge cover story on English as the driver of a 'revolution' is fraught with deep-seated dogmas

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.