News in all forms of media in India is dominated by male subjects. This is particularly true of radio, with women constituting only 13 per cent of the subjects of news bulletins, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project...
Read MoreCourtesy: The Hindu, October 21, 2013 Like any other freedom, freedom of expression too is a product of relentless struggle. In one of my earlier columns, “From principle to practice” (January 28, 2013), I looked at three...
Read MoreThe cliché usually runs: From disaster to relief. But judging by a recent lead story of one of the country’s most well known newspapers, the reverse might well be true. Headlined, “No disaster communication system despite...
Read MorePractitioners and advocates from the community media sector made a conscious effort to forge linkages with a popular social movement when a workshop was organized on “People’s Right to Information and Community Media,” at the...
Read MoreThe recent notification from Ministry of Communications and IT (MoCIT) announcing a five-fold hike in the spectrum fee for Community Radio broadcasters in the country heated things up, this summer. According to the Wireless...
Read MoreWhat we call the ‘spectrum’ is actually a whole range of frequencies, from high-frequency gamma and x-rays at one end, all the way to low frequency waves used for TV, mobile phones and radio at the other. It also includes the...
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