On the fateful day of 18 September 2001, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki announced the shutdown of all independent and private media houses in the state. Large number of journalists and government ...

The illusion of freedom, being called the queen of the house, masks the reality that important decisions are still made by men. The problem is not merely that men make decisions; it’s that women are ...

Colonel Sophia Qureshi is the face of Indian nationalism, not the face of Hindu nationalism which was made to hide behind this hastily borrowed mukhota (mask)! A Hindu nationalist government found it ...

Every 28 May, we observe World Menstrual Hygiene Day, a time to underline the significance of menstrual health. In some parts of the world, we imagine women living free from taboos and stigma ...

This is not an economy for the people—it is an economy for profit, pomp, and propaganda. In a country where 80 crore people depend on free ration schemes for their daily survival, celebrating global ...

Channels commonly labelled as ‘Godi media’ in local parlance have prioritised ratings over responsibility, thus eroding their credibility forever. During this conflict escalations, some of the ...

"We, the undersigned, call for immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege. For 20 months, the ...

Museums displaying cultural objects and artifacts however have travelled through a phase in their lives when the sole purpose of collecting and displaying cultural objects was to preserve them as they ...

Amid rising shortages, the economy took huge hits. Foreign misadventures by Gaddafi cost Libya heavily. Unfortunately, much ...

It is perhaps wrong to call artistes like Parambrata ‘regional’ stars and only give Bollywood performers the label of ...

The resignation letter of the first General Secretary of the CPI(M), P. Sundarayya’s ‘My Resignation’ came up for discussion recently in a social media exchange in another context. As it happens, this ...

His close readings of canonical films like Sujata, Sholay, and Swades illuminate how popular cinema often upholds ‘upper caste’ moralities while relegating Dalit characters to symbolic or peripheral ...