Excluded by the anchor
Why do English news channels call non-English-speaking ordinary folk to their shows at all? On May 18, NDTV's Ankita Mukherjee conducted a discussion (Left, Right and Centre) on Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug's death. Aruna's colleagues had looked after her all these years so it was fitting that one of them should be on the programme. But after being asked one question, nurse Namrata Kasabe, visibly ill at ease in English, was ignored. While other panelists discussed the pros and cons of euthanasia, she was left to stare at the camera, not even asked for last comments. Ironically she was the only one who could have fleshed out from personal experience some of the questions that were asked on the show.