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‘India’s freedoms as fragile as its neighbours”

The Hindu’s Islamabad correspondent, Nirupama Subramanian (in picture), has shared the Chameli Devi Jain award for excellence in journalism with Vinita Deshmukh, the editor of The Weekly Intelligent, Poona. In her acceptance speech, read out in her absence by her sister Vasudha Sondhi, Subramanian said: “In Pakistan, where I am based, a number of journalists…

‘Don’t you have anything serious to write about?’

Former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh‘s “friendship” with the Pakistani journalist Aroosa Alam has quickly and smoothly moved from the gossip columns to the front pages, with the kind lady trying to explain how a Rawalpindi-based newspaper carried a report about her reported marriage with Captain Singh prompting a fatwa from the Imam of…