On paper, prostitution is illegal in India. But Red Light Despatch, a monthly magazine for prostitutes, is capturing on paper the trials and tribulations, the torture and harassment, and the feelings and emotions of India’s two million sex workers. First-person accounts of girls sold off to the flesh trade, poems and essays by prostitutes, book…
Daily Archives: 31 July 2007
Can bloggers be considered as reporters? Yes.
Who is a reporter? Are only those who work for a newspaper, magazine, TV or radio station, have an ID card, and draw a monthly cheque reporters? Can bloggers, sitting at home in their shorts with their modem by their side, be considered as reporters? Yes, says Howard Owens. “To me, a reporter means a…
It’s a mag, mag, mag world in India i.e. Bharat
The Indian edition of Vogue is due for launch this September. And Conde Nast is readying to unleash a slew of fashion, retail and niche magazines like Glamour, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller, Vanity Fair and Wired, according to Alex Kuruvilla, managing director of Conde Nast India. Read the full story here: Conde Nast to expand…
A face we saw often on BBC World is gone: RIP
Richard Stott, twice editor of the Daily Mirror, twice editor of The People, once editor of Today, and a regular on the BBC’s Dateline London programme, has passed away at age of 63. “Perhaps the story that sums up his charactor and dedication the most was that he was working to the last editing Alistair…
How the Indian media went completely bonkers
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: All is not too well in the immense country of Australia. Or so it seems. A country that is known as much for venom spewing, bad mouthing cricketers who always try their best to stamp their supremacy on the cricket field, also has some grossly inefficient investigators and law enforcers. Or so…
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