Now MIB says better not to use the term ‘dalit’
IN Media Freedom | 2018-09-05
Between courts and government, an evocative term with a rich history is sought to be replaced with ‘scheduled caste.’
Mevani, Republic TV and the solidarity in Chennai
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/01/2018
Both refusals: the journalists’ and Mevani’s, can be seen as justified. Who then was right?
Reporter attacked, advised not to complain
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |12/01/2018
A Facebook post by Damayantee Dhar who reports for The Wire records an attack on herself and another reporter from the Ahmedabad Mirror on January 7 by a "mob of 15-20 dalit men". She says the two of them were heckled, manhandled and had their press cards and mobile phones snatched and..
Sound and fury, signifying nothing….
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/01/2018
That’s a fair description of Times Now and Republic TV’s treatment of dalits
commemorating the Bhima Koregaon battle.
Setting the agenda for the Telangana elections
BY PADMAJA SHAW| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |02/01/2018
The media’s coverage of a dalit protest reveals how it played into the BJP game, promoting its agenda by repeating its claims and slogans,
Visual tales born out of conflict
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |18/06/2017
All three films not permitted to be shown at the short film festival in Kerala which is currently under way, are now on YouTube. Did the GOI really feel threatened by these?
BY RAVIKIRAN SHINDE| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/03/2017
Why have the media bought the view that EVMs are infallible when some experts – and the Supreme Court – disagree?
Selective coverage of atrocities
BY SHUBHAM VERMA| IN MEDIA MONITORING |09/03/2017
Why do some anti-dalit and anti-minority atrocities dominate the news while others are ignored?
Why Mayawati matters more than the reporting suggests
BY RADHIKA RAMASESHAN| IN OPINION |17/02/2017
Largely ignored by the media, TV and print, until quite recently, Mayawati’s voters are speaking up at last. The BSP is in the fight in the rural seats in varying degrees,
Encountering sexism and casteism at work
BY PUSHPA ACHANTA| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |12/01/2017
The regional media allow discrimination against women and dalits to flourish, a Network of Women in Media conference was told recently.
The dalit stories which don’t make news
BY RAVIKIRAN SHINDE| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/10/2016
The anniversary would be a great event to cover on TV surely? No. As they do every year, the mainstream media boycotted this historic and gigantic gathering in Nagpur.
Social media helps Una dalits remain uncowed
BY RAVIKIRAN SHINDE| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |29/07/2016
The dumping of cow carcasses by large numbers during protest rallies was a unique form of protest made possible only by social media.
Please increase diversity in your newsroom!
BY RAVIKIRAN SHINDE| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/07/2016
An open letter to NDTV India's Ravish Kumar : Please look at the Brahmin domination in your own backyard,
Framing the California textbooks debate
BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/06/2016
How did the US and Indian media convert an attempt to erase ‘’India’ and ‘Hinduism’ into a fight between ‘bad’ Hindus and ‘good’ secularists?
Why is the media naming the Kerala rape victim?
BY MUHAMMED SABITH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/05/2016
Kerala’s ‘Nirbhaya’ has been named and her photo published. Because of pressure from social media? Or because she was a dalit?
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/02/2016
The YouTube channel, Dalit Camera Ambedkar, captures events and emotions the mainstream media has no time for.
Media and civil society only hear dead people
BY PADMAJA SHAW| IN OPINION |01/02/2016
Media misread campus politics. The ABVP’s Hindutva aggression is not normal student activism, but they ignored this until it led to Rohith’s suicide,
BY SAI VINOD| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2015
2015 marks the 125th birth anniversaries of both Ambedkar and Nehru, but the treatment given by GOI to the two is strikingly different.
One step forward, two steps backwards
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/11/2015
Caste dominated the Bihar election and its coverage. The state's progress was seen through its prism.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |29/10/2015
The atrocity earlier this month at Sunped village in Haryana in which a Dalit home was set on fire and two children died, was reported by most news outlets as being a clash between Dalits and Rajputs. Kafila.org however carried a long report which described it as a clash between Dalits and..
BY CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |25/09/2015
“The calls have stopped certainly, but the bravado with which he could threaten us despite being under arrest and being in a police station, makes us wonder what backlash we might face.”
Why more Dalits don't opt for journalism
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/04/2015
Allegations of casteism arose when a Dalit journalist died of cancer. But is Dalit employment in media a more complex issue?
The media's short shrift to Dalits
IN OPINION |28/04/2015
The media have no excuse for their unpardonable indifference towards crimes against Dalits.
The tale of a dalit journalist
BY PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA| IN OPINION |20/04/2015
Nagaraju Koppula overcame impossible hurdles to become an English language journalist.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |15/04/2015
The politics around the B R Ambedkar anniversary makes news: on April 15 several papers had stories on the RSS and Congress competing to celebrate him in order to claim the Dalit vote. But atrocities against Dalits which continue to happen claim far less attention. A February 18th incident of..
Resisting attacks on free speech
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |24/11/2014
Sometimes, all it takes is for one person to stand up and say 'Enough'!
Need to include texts that challenge caste
BY V Geetha| IN CENSORSHIP |26/02/2014
To remove ostensibly casteist texts does not address the problem, for, how do we get students to think critically of caste,
'I will stand by freedom of speech'
IN DIGITAL MEDIA |14/08/2013
A well-known dalit writer is arrested for a facebook post on the suspension of IAS officer Durga Nagpal and the demolition of a madrassa.
The untold story of Dalit journalists
BY AJAZ ASHRAF| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/08/2013
Many Dalits enter the media because they believe it can empower their community. But discrimination against them is rampant in the Hindi and other language media.
BY AJAZ ASHRAF| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/08/2013
The Untold Story of Dalit Journalists-Part II. Most Dalit journalists insist that social network based on caste plays a crucial role in placement and, subsequently, in switching jobs.
BY AJAZ ASHRAF| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/08/2013
Untold story of Dalit journalists - Part III. Change the media has from Uniyal's days, but its pace mimics the Hindu rate of growth, which had dogged India's economic growth.
Newsrooms need a dose of diversity
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |31/01/2013
News channels were quick to brand Ashis Nandy as casteist, but newsrooms themselves are staffed overwhelmingly by upper castes,
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/10/2012
A significant movement seeking land reforms has been ignored on TV. NDTV, which is generally into saving tigers, hills, coasts, and such other things, had nothing much to say about Mr Rajagopal's march to Delhi,
When anchors don't cross question
BY Seetha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/09/2012
Can Ilaiah back his startling claim with data? Are upper caste men really raping only Dalit women? Are they not raping upper caste women?
BY hoot| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/08/2011
The problem with Arakshan is not that it is needlessly provocative,but that it is such a disappointing film. .Free speech battles should be fought over more deserving material.
IN CENSORSHIP |09/08/2011
The issues involved in the ‘Aarakshan’ controversy are fundamental to the functioning of a free, democratic and pluralistic society that accords a high place to tolerance
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |02/07/2011
Some kinds of student reservation bother the media. Others don’t. A city like Mumbai has colleges with reservations for linguistic and religious minorities which gobble up as much as 65 per cent of seats.
Conviction of Mumbai-based columnist for casteist remarks: need for debate
IN CENSORSHIP |31/01/2011
The sentence of conviction of a columnist for making allegedly casteist remarks has important repercussions for both free speech and hate speech,
BY K S Sudeep| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/07/2010
An amazing story on the India Today website seems to think that appointing Dalit cooks in schools is a deliberately divisive move by a state government.
The Mayawati bashing was unprofessional
BY Anand Kumar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/03/2010
True professionals stick to facts, avoid contemptuous language and let viewers and readers draw intelligent conclusions.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |11/09/2009
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has come under fire from scribes and the opposition for slapping the Dalit Act on reporters of a TV channel IBN 7 for a news report on how a starving Dalit sold off his wife in poverty-hit Bundelkhand. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has..
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/08/2009
The Times’ recent report isn’t unusual; the paper has been consistently running down the performance of reserved category IIT aspirants and students.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |27/06/2008
The editor and two reporters of Andhra Jyothy, arrested for beating an effigy symbolising a Dalit leader, were granted bail by a court here Thursday. The journalists will be released only Friday as the jail authorities did not receive the court orders by 5.30 p.m.The court granted unconditional bail to..
Andhra Jyothy’s casteist offence?
IN REGIONAL MEDIA|26/06/2008
The Andhra police arrest three journalists under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a month after the alleged offence.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |21/01/2008
Two English news channels gave awards for politician of the year, NDTV to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and CNN-IBN to finance minister P Chidambaram. You would think that by any yardstick a Dalit politician achieving a clear majority in a UP election after so many years would be the most..
BY Aloke Thakore| IN OPINION |25/09/2007
The average Brahmin whom Outlook contacted intrigues me. Does he exist, or is it an easy, lazy way in which the idea of public opinion is used,
Mayawati and the media’s caste bias
BY sevanti ninan| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |12/06/2007
He (Kanshi Ram) had said, `Dalits don`t trust the upper caste media. To strengthen your movement, you must yourself become the media.`
After Mayawati does mainstream media matter?
BY James Mutti| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |15/05/2007
Media justice: activism or elitism?
BY Ranjith Thankappan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/06/2007
Jessica and Priyadarshini may become a cause for this `civil society`, but not those majorities falling on the other side of the caste/class order.
Role of media in recent dalit outrage
BY sengupta| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/12/2006
The media ignores dalits and their problems until they turn violent.
Khairlanji and the English press
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/12/2006
Why this silence over such savagery? Surekha and Priyanka Bhotmange`s face and name should have become as much part of our consciousness as Jessica Lal`s and Priyadarshini Mattoo`s.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/10/2006
Dalits make their presence visible in the national media whenever some caste atrocities occur. Else they become invisible.
The Hindu responds on Kanshi Ram
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/10/2006
The Reader’s Editor points out that the paper more than made up with its editorial and op-ed piece the next day.
A letter to The Hindu’s Reader’s Editor
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/10/2006
Surely The Hindu could have made space for Kanshi Ramøs death on its front page, and rustled up an obituary for him
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |09/10/2006
Did television news use the occasion of Kanshi Ram’s death to assess his contribution to the creation of a rising Dalit political force? Not really. On every channel except Star News the BSP founder lost out to the North Korean bomb blast and other..
Grassroots journalism in Chittoor
BY Usha Revelli| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |09/02/2005
Rural women, mostly Dalits, handle all the reporting, writing, editing, layout, artwork, photography and even circulation. ??
BY shivam vij| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |24/06/2004
Caste discrimination in the newsroom? Rubbish, say most upper caste journalists in Uttar Pradesh. It’s all over, say backward caste journalists.
Commerce, politics and caste in UP election coverage
BY Vij| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/05/2004
Tongue fully in cheek, Awasthi says that upto 10% of ‘biased’ stories don’t hurt a paper’s credentials…
Khabar Lahariya: When six women started a wave
BY Prarthna Gahilote| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |02/04/2004
All in a day`s work: Travelling to Allahabad to get the paper printed, egging people to buy it, resisting threats from goons
For Lucknow scribes happy days are here again
BY shivam vij| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |19/10/2003
BY ninan| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |12/06/2003
The media here has evolved into a force which is expanding rapidly in the rural hinterland, yet has relatively little influence. The reasons have to do with caste.
BY devsagar singh| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |25/02/2003
The genesis of Mayawati-media tussle lies in the caste and class ridden psyche of journalists in Uttar Pradesh.
Letter to the Hoot—Dalit empowerment
BY Kartik M| IN OPINION |07/01/2003
The print media did not distinguish between empowerment and abuse of office in Mayawati’s case.
Jharkhand's oppressed dalits and the media
IN REGIONAL MEDIA |09/09/2002
MOURNING, AND THE MEDIA'S BIAS
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/09/2002
Where are the dalit journalists?
BY Chandra Bhan Prasad| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/04/2002
