Daily Archives: 5 October 2009

PRASHANT PANJIAR: Lensmen be more reflective

Prashant Panjiar‘s critically acclaimed solo exhibition Pan India: A Shared Habitat, a visual tour de force of how the Indian landscape has changed since the turn of the millennium, moves to Bangalore and Calcutta next after Delhi run. In this sans serif video, the acclaimed photojournalist talks about why he shot the pictures with a…

Dressing up (and dressing down) as journalists

The dressing up of plainclothes policemen as journalists representing a television station from Singapore to trap the Maoist leader Chhatradhar Mahato in West Bengal has resulted in a right royal kerfuffle. Journalists groups in Calcutta have said the police action lowered the dignity of the profession. But there are also those who believe that if…