Shefalee Vasudev : Articles

BY Shefalee Vasudev| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/01/2011

Fashion PR and fashion journalism. Do they interact in ways that the line of editorial control is often draped over? Does Indian fashion journalism have to be mostly innocuous?

In the dollhouse

BY Shefalee Vasudev| IN OPINION |05/06/2010

While one journalist uses fashion vocabulary to locate a cultural type, the other finds a moralistic high ground to defend her. Both appear to believe that to be meaningful, a woman must be in self-denial.

UNUSED RUSHES

BY Shefalee Vasudev| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/04/2002

UNUSED RUSHES UNUSED RUSHES An occasional column on what the media sometimes holds back Where Can I Contact You?(new) Hinglish, as she is spoke Life as a small..

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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.