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November 17, 2016
चांदनी चौक की तमाम गलियों में सन्नाटा पसरा है। ज़्यादातर दुकानें बंद हैं। जो खुली हैं उन पर इक्के-दुक्के ग्राहक हैं। सोना चांदी की भी कई दुकानें बंद नज़र आईं।
रंग-रसायन और मसाले के बाज़ार में भी दुकानों के शटर गिरे मिले। सत्तर से नब्बे फीसदी दुकानें बंद हैं।
मैं आराम से तेज़ी से चलता हुआ, इस गली से उस गली होता हुआ खारी बावली पहुंच गया। वहां कुछ ठेले पर सामान लदे हैं मगर ज्यादातर ठेलों पर...
November 17, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi affirmed on Wednesday something that might be unexpected coming from him or a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party: The need for government to stay out of media matters. Speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Press Council of India, Modi spoke of the danger of government interfering in the workings of news organisations.
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November 15, 2016
सासाराम में अपराधियों की गोली का शिकार बने पत्रकार धर्मेंद्र सिंह की हत्या के विरोध में बिहार के पत्रकार सोमवार को काला दिवस मनाएंगे।
बिहार प्रेस मेंस यूनियन के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष एसएन श्याम ने बताया कि सोमवार को पूरे राज्य भर के पत्रकार काला दिवस मनाने के साथ ही पटना के गांधी मैदान के समीप करगिल चौक से पत्रकार प्रतिरोध मार्च निकालेंगे। यहां करगिल चौक पर स्वर्गीय पत्रकार को श्रद्धांजलि भी दी जाएगी...
November 15, 2016
While Delhi occasionally has to grapple with the real excesses of state power, such as when the government orders a news channel to go blank, the police state is alive and thriving in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. The district, which became infamous two decades ago for the significant presence of Maoists, has also become a symbol of Indian state abuse and has been the site of some of the most...
November 14, 2016
On November 14, 2016, Pandit Nehru’s Birth Anniversary, the Indian National Congress re-launched the National Herald under the stewardship of Neelabh Mishra, erstwhile editor of the Hindi Outlook. Mishra had been asked to leave Outlook after a series of shake-ups in the publication, widely believed in the journalist world, to be under executive pressure. Editor of the English edition of the...
November 11, 2016
ज़ी न्यूज़ के संपादक सुधीर चौधरी प्रतिष्ठित रामनाथ गोयनका सम्मान से सम्मानित हैं। तमाम लोग चाहे उन्हें उगाहीबाज़ी के आरोप में तिहाड़ की हवा खाने वाले संपादक बतौर जानते हों, लेकिन इसमें शक़ नहीं कि वे कई मीडिया संस्थानों में काम कर चुके अनुभवी पत्रकार हैं। उनकी गणना देश के शीर्ष ''राष्ट्रवादी' पत्रकारों में होती है जो आये दिन पाकिस्तान और आतंकियों से मोर्चा लेता रहता है। देश के...
November 11, 2016
Even as we celebrated 'resistance' and ‘democracy’ in ensuring the ban on NDTV ‘was put on hold’ (the Modi regime made this announcement on November 7 after the channel had gone to court and there had been a vociferous outcry on the ban), we Indians have remained mealy-mouthed and silent on the 65 day old ban on Kashmir Reader, a newspaper published from the...
November 11, 2016
A newsroom can often be the most nerve-racking, jarring, or the most fun-filled place for a professional journalist. Given the speed at which news travels these days, it is also a place where decisions are taken in a heartbeat and executed within seconds. In all, the newsroom lies at the heart of any media organisation; be it a website or an old-school newspaper.
Not if you happen to be a...
November 10, 2016
Twenty four hours of having Donald Trump as the president elect and the streets of the United States of America (USA) look different. Shaun King, an American civil rights activist shared a number of screenshots of women sharing their experience of racism, misogyny and religious intolerance by Trump supporters, on the very next day of the election.
A Muslim woman, in...
November 10, 2016
The Managing Editor of Akila newspaper says it was a an April Fool’s Story; but on November 8 Akila had Got it exactly right
In the midst of the hubbub surrounding the secrecy of PM Modi’s plan to eliminate the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, an image of a clipping from a Gujarati newspaper doing rounds on WhatsApp and Social Media is leaving readers perplexed.
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