Network for Women in Media in India is one of the best things to happen to me, not exaggerating. Coming in contact with other women journalists from different parts of India, and getting to know of their experiences and exchanging thoughts with them, has helped me put things in perspective, understand the workings of patriarchy…
Recently, I made my debut at the Index on Censorship magazine. Founded in 1972 to “tell the stories of dissidents behind the Iron Curtain”, the magazine has seen the bylines of some of the greatest names in literature such as Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Samuel Beckett, Kurt Vonnegut and our very own Amartya Sen. Needless…
I have always been totally in awe, and even jealous, of people who manage to stay level-headed at all times, never uttering an out-of-place remark; those who can remain calm and composed in spite of all the excitement or provocation. Today, it was Swapna Burman who totally swept me off my feet. The 21-year-old Indian…
Last month, I visited Margaret’s Hope tea estate. It was in this tea garden, home to some of the world’s finest teas, that workers created history of sorts when six of them got killed in police firing on June 25, 1955. They were part of a protest demonstration, fighting for their labour rights. The incident…
For a mother, travelling with the family is not necessarily a vacation; it is just a change of location. Doing the same things–looking after the children, and taking care of the husbands–in a different place instead of her usual home. Can a woman not really have a holiday, as in, a proper holiday holiday; in…
Last week, Cobrapost published an exposé, codenamed Operation 136, which showed several Indian news media companies were willing to push Hindutva agenda through their content in exchange of money, large sums of it. This big story has been largely ignored by most of Indian media, for obvious reasons. But when even the more saner voices and…
Anuradha Sharma 