Three days on, the first reports are coming in of the situation on the ground in Kashmir, after New Delhi imposed a blanket clampdown on landline, mobile and internet services, before revoking #Article370 in the Valley. The Telegraph‘s Sankarshan Thakur (above) has a diary of the run-up to the “lockdown”—jargon for a brutal suppression for…
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Tarun Sehrawat: 22, and killed in the line of duty
sans serif records with regret the passing away of Tehelka photographer Tarun Sehrawat after contracting malaria while working on a story in the Maoist-controlled areas of Chhattisgarh. He was 22 years old. *** The Hindu‘s Aman Sethi pays tribute: “Today, when one of our own has been irrevocably lost, I feel we — as reporters,…
How a letter-writer entered the Guinness Book
In The Hindu, Aman Sethi profiles Subhash Chandra Agrawal, the tetile merchant whose use of the right to infomration (RTI ) Act unceasingly shapes the news agenda. Before he donned his current role, Agrawal had entered the Guinness book of records for the most number of letters to the editor of newspapers and magazines: “His…
Aman Sethi bags Red Cross journalism prize
Aman Sethi, The Hindu‘s correspondent in Chhattisgarh, has bagged the international red cross committee’s award for best print media article on humanitarian issues, for his March 2011 piece on homes and granaries that were torched by police commandos in three villages in the Naxal heartland. Tehelka ‘s Umar Baba took the second place, while the…
Power plans of DB Corp, Daink Bhaskar & DNA
Conflict of interest is a barely discussed topic in the Indian media, more so in the languages, where media houses operate on the unwritten agreement that if you don’t touch me, I won’t touch you. Here, in this la-la land, owners, editors, reporters, photographers et al inhabit a strange world where politics, journalism and business…
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