Shirin Dalvi~s predicament

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/07/2015

An editor, Shirin Dalvi has sold her jewels, borrowed, and started translating work because she lost her job at Avadhnama, a Mumbai Urdu daily because she published a cartoon from Charlie Hebdo, is facing criminal charges and is doing rounds of the court. Indian Express reports she hasn~t been able to get a job in the ~male-dominated~ Urdu press, and is writing a column, In Dino for free in Hindustan Urdu Daily to remain visible in the market. It quotes her saying "It was a mistake. I should have looked at the cartoon before it went for print. I do not know how long I will have to pay for that mistake." Two NGOs have been assisting her, one legally, and the other with her daughter~s studies. The various Mumbai-based organisations of journalists, whose office bearers get elected in hot contests, and agitate on freedom of the press issues, are visibly absent.

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