NEWSLAUNDRY HAFTA – EPISODE 5
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LATEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT: PRESS CLUB OF INDIA
After foreign-funded non-government organisations (NGOs) and the Aadhaar Card, there is a new entrant to the list of national security threats: the Press Club of India (PCI). This potential “threat”...
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LIES AND STATISTICS: HOW INDIA’S LARGEST STATE FUDGES CRIME DATA
Is Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous state, better governed than richer and more advanced Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat? If you look at some statistics, the answer is yes. UP...
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THE SECRET DIARY OF MANMOHAN SINGH, AGED 81¾
Thursday 12th March, 2015 It was early in the morning. The peacocks in my garden had just woken up. We were about to start playing remote-remote, when we heard a commotion outside. Gursharan went to...
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INDIA’S CITY SLUMS CAN HOUSE ALL OF ITALY
It is reasonably well known that 31% of India’s population, or 377 million out of 1.2 billion people (when last counted in 2011), live in urban areas. What is not as well-known is that nearly 17% of...
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MAINSTREAM VERSUS NICHE: REPORTING ON LGBT COMMUNITY
The editor of a publication I regularly write for recently rejected a piece of mine calling it “too niche”. The piece was about Looking, a gay drama television series set in San Francisco. “It won’t...
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PINK SLIP FOR PREGNANCY?
A former Zee News employee finds herself locked in a protracted legal tussle with the company after she was fired in August, 2012. She alleges, she was fired after she informed the company that she...
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NDTV GIRL ASKS – TWITTER ANSWERS WITH SEXIST HUMOUR
Since we believe in making things easy for our readers and viewers, here is the latest thing that broke the Internet (in India, at least). So this young girl studying Political Science tells the...
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INDIA’S POLITICALLY POWERFUL CASTES CORNER QUOTAS
OBCs, a catch-all term used by the central government for a vast variety of castes that are considered socially and economically disadvantaged, are politically, educationally and economically better...
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TARAKANT DWIVEDI: TESTING THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION – 3
The violent massacre of cartoonists at French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the outrage and lawsuit against the comedy group AIB, the new directives to filmmakers from India’s Central Board for Film...
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MEDIA OR MODI SARKAAR: WHO’S THE BIGGER THREAT TO CHRISTIANS?
Our newspapers would have you believe that the crusade against Christians has begun in earnest. Yes, this is the final putsch the Hindus had been waiting for. Except that it is the Church and not the...
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TIMES GROUP HITS BACK AT HOUSING.COM
On March 12, The Economic Times (ET) carried a story headlined “Investors considering to remove Housing.com co-founder Rahul Yadav as CEO: Sources”. The story, as evident from the headline, was...
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66A ABUSED AGAIN: THIS TIME BY AZAM KHAN
Now I know, every time you read the word “Facebook” and “jail” in the same sentence in an article on our website, you think: “Oh great, it’s one of those posts Newslaundry puts up…” And it’s true,...
View Article‘INDIA’S DAUGHTER’ IS MY DAUGHTER
I grew up in the old-fashioned southern city of Hyderabad in India, in the eighties. I was born into a liberal family and quickly came to realise that the world outside was not a reflection of my...
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HOW AAP IS ENGAGING WITH THE MEDIA
The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP’s) transition into a full-fledged political party can be mapped not just by the current tussle for power within, but also by the way in which it deals with the media....
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #12
Fill in the blanks and be part of a Clothesline gag. Enter our photo dialogue contest and you (and your winning dialogue) could be featured in next week’s Clothesline. You wring ‘em clean, and we’ll...
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ADDING MEAT TO THE STORY
So, Ajmal Kasab – the so-called “face” of 26/11 terror attack – neither asked, nor was fed mutton biryani while in custody. It appears that the story that the media gleefully lapped up and raged on...
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