SAWM - South Asian Women in Media (SAWM)

Beijing does not respect ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Hong Kong lawmaker

As street protests continue in Hong Kong over a National Security Law proposed by China last month, Senior Journalist Smita Sharma spoke to the leader of the Civic Party and legislator Alvin Yeung in Hong Kong about the ground situation, demands on the table and international dynamics of the ongoing protests.
Lockdown, Paatal Lok & Migrant Workers Tell Us Why Villages Exist

Paatal Lok could not have streamed at a better time. What better time for a narrative about how urban India makes everything about itself than today when our screens are plastered with the visuals of “migrant workers” in our cities? It also helps that the series also operates at a ‘meta’ level.
From quake to coronavirus, knee-jerk response from Nepal leadership

Government's response to the coronavirus pandemic is seen by many to mirror its post-2015 earthquake measures.
'Teach them a lesson': Indian women accuse Delhi police of abuse

In the hypermasculine Hindutva project, when young women are Muslim protestors against CAA- a direct tool of Hindutva-police use violence against them. Like in Jamia. When the young women are assertive & negate the Hindutva narrative of Indian women, police watch as bystanders while they are subjected to violence. Like in the case of Gargi college. Journalist and SAWM India member Neha Dixit writes.

Bachi Karkaria’s Tales from TJ Road: What Sewri’s migratory flamingos have in common with their human counterparts

23/09/2020, by Bachi Karkaria in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in Firstpost Through this fortnightly column, Tales From TJ Road, Bachi Karkaria tells the story of Mumbai's metromorphosis *** Flamingoing, Going, Gone? Last week I was asked to sign a petition addressed to our young, woke environment minister, Aditya Uddhav Thackeray. I... Read more...

Nawaz Sharif has spoken. But can he change the Pakistan Army’s game?

23/09/2020, by Ayesha Siddiqa in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Print The duo of General Bajwa and ISI DG Faiz Hameed have managed to drag the military deeper into politics, but their hybrid government formula is not working. As the crisp autumn sun in London peered through my window, it made me nostalgic for home in Pakistan. C... Read more...

‘No two countries share this sort of a relationship’

06/08/2020, by Ayesha Kabir in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in Prothom Alo Indian high commissioner Riva Ganguly Das had come to Dhaka almost two decades ago on diplomatic posting. In March last year she returned, this time as the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh. She is quite impressed by the changes that have taken plac... Read more...

Year later, Kashmir status change not a talking point with West Asia: Former Ambassador Anil Trigunayat

06/08/2020, by Nilova Roy Chaudhury in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in ETV Bharat The move of withdrawing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, took the world by surprise, leaving a petulant Pakistan to try and get the international community to censure India. In an interview with senior journalist Nilova Choudhary o... Read more...

Kashmir: A volcano waiting to explode

04/08/2020, by Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in Gulf News Lockdown, rights violation and poor legal remedies have tarred India’s image globally Trapped in lockdown, barbed wires and military barricades, an eerie silence continues to define Jammu and Kashmir’s landscape, one year after it lost its special sta... Read more...

The Spoken Word

Japan, Swadeshi Jagran Manch and BCCI: Why Modi’s China headache just got bigger this week

04/08/2020, by Jyoti Malhotra in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Print From Japan’s demands to Jaishankar’s comment on China, it is clear why India continues to choose ‘strategic autonomy’, the 21st-century version of ‘non-alignment’. As if the Narendra Modi government’s China headache isn’t bad enough, it is bei... Read more...

Modi’s Hindutva agenda is unsettling Bangladesh, time Delhi reaches out to reassure Hasina

29/07/2020, by Jyoti Malhotra in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Print The docking of an Indian ship at Chittagong port is an amazing breakthrough in the on-off bilateral relationship. So why are Modi and Sheikh Hasina silent about it? The ground-breaking 5 August ceremony to build a ‘gaganchumbi’, literally ‘sky-kissing�... Read more...

Article 370 move has left no space for mainstream leaders: Omar Abdullah

29/07/2020, by Suhasini Haidar in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Hindu Just because you cannot see protests don’t confuse it to mean there is no anger over what happened, says former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah A year after the Centre’s decision to dilute article 370 and bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in... Read more...

Editors in Modi’s India have two choices — speak up or give in to intellectual slavery

28/07/2020, by Patricia Mukhim in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Print The press, which is the fourth pillar of Indian democracy, is not given the same status as the other three pillars today. Journalists have to make their choice. Can the press speak? If it does not speak, then is it still the press? But what does it speak? To... Read more...

In Rahul Gandhi, Jaishankar picks an easy target. Modi govt’s real task is to push China back

21/07/2020, by Jyoti Malhotra in Home Page Articles

This story first appeared in The Print Everything the BJP govt has done since 19 June is to tiptoe around PM Modi's statement on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh during the all-party meeting. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shed the politician’s uniform, the white kurta-pyjama, for a light blue boar... Read more...