Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta attacked environmentalists in a recent column. “Drive out… don’t fly,” he wrote, and you will find bounteous fields in Punjab and Haryana, and not the caked, cracked and dried mud-flats with withered saplings that characterise drought that afflicts half the districts in India today. Reason: the foresight of regional leaders…
Daily Archives: 27 August 2009
German fellowship open to Indian journalists
The International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP) is inviting applications from newspaper, TV and radio journalists in Asia and the Pacific, for an eight-week exchange fellowship programme that will take them to Germany in May and June 2010. Journalists between 28 and 38 years of age, working in India, China, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are eligible…