Malavika Karlekar : Articles

BY Malavika Karlekar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/06/2008

As with all `eye-views’, this book is a mélange of the good, the bad and the ugly, `big names’ rubbing shoulders with the less heard of…

Book review: photo journalism down the years

BY Malavika Karlekar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/09/2005

Though one misses Ansel Adams and pioneers like Margaret Bourke-White Koetzle`s vignettes provide insights into how photographs enhances reportage.

Medicare and the Media

BY Malavika Karlekar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/05/2003

A proactive media can pressurize policy makers and educate the public on major health issues that affect people.

Visualising Identity

BY Malavika Karlekar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/12/2002

Singing and Dancing about War and Peace

BY Malavika Karlekar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/1900

By conveying the message of war and disability a unique play tries to educate the media to change its ways of reporting on war, peace, and the "normal body".

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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.