SAWM - South Asian Women in Media (SAWM)

Media workshop on “Unsafe Zones: Stories of Violence and Vulnerabilities at Work.”
Journalist and SAWM member Neha Dixit receives CPJ Press Freedom Award and dedicates it to the journalists without resources
SAWM Kolkata member Anwesha Banerjee was awarded for Best Article on Child Rights on 20th Nov
Anuradha Bhasin the editor of Kashmir Times speaking in Kolkata on the situation of Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 in a seminar organized by APDR on Human Rights Violation.
SAWM member Nasim Zehra delivering her talk at Harvard recently on her book Kargil to the Coup

'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.
Ram Mandir Without Ram Rajya And a ‘Regime’ Driven By Fear of Loss

In Ram Rajya, King is “guardian of righteousness and glorious refuge of his people,” and “the protector of his subjects”. Can the BJP govt claim that they are the protectors of all their citizens after the chants of, “Goli Maaro Saalon Ko”? Journalist and SAWM India member Nishtha Gautam writes.
Satisfied with GoI Handling of Kashmir: Maldives Foreign Minister

In an exclusive interview with Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Sahid senior journalist and SAWM member Smita Sharma finds out that Maldives consider the CAA and abrogation of 370 in Kashmir as India's internal matter and the ambassador from Maldives felt most satisfied with the ground situation of Kashmir during the recent visit there. Read the full interview to know what this neighbouring country feels about some of the most important political issues of present time.
Sri Lankan academics, activists ‘deeply concerned’ by CAA, NRC

Academicians from Sri Lanka have condemned the Government of India for introducing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizen. More than 50 academicians and researchers have expressed their shock and concern over the present undemocratic situation in India and attacks on democratic freedom in the country. SAWM Sri Lanka member journalist Meera Srinivasan writes from Colombo about this issue.

22/03/2020, by Mehmal Sarfraz in Home Page Articles

On March 12, Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), arrested Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman (in picture) the editor-in-chief of Jang Group, the largest media group in the country. The group owns the largest Urdu newspaper Jang and English daily The Read more...

Everyone’s a health reporter now: Covering COVID-19 on other beats

17/03/2020, by SAWM Team in Home Page Articles

As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds more and more countries to a halt, journalists around the world are doing just the opposite. Read more...

Political manipulations in Kashmir – Part II begins

15/03/2020, by Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal in Home Page Articles, Latest Article

Apni Party or Unki Party? What's in a name? But the strange christening of new Jammu and Kashmir based political formation as 'Apni Party' meaning 'Ours/ My Party' evokes curiosity. Whose party is it, anyway? What does it stand for Read more...

The ambit and the limits of ‘diaspora diplomacy’

14/03/2020, by Suhasini Haidar in Home Page Articles

It is necessary for New Delhi to look at the political choices of Indian migrants abroad through a more realistic lens Read more...

আদিবাসীদের গণবিবাহের নামে ভিএইচপি-র ধর্মান্তরণের পর্দাফাঁস করল ফর্ম

11/03/2020, by Kamalika Sengupta in Home Page Articles

একটা আপাত নিরীহ ফর্ম। জ্বলজ্বল করছে,”আমরা উভয়ে স্ব-ইচ্ছায় হিন্দু পদ্ধতি মতে এই বিবাহ বন্ধনে আবদ্ধ হওয়ার জন্য অঙ্গীকারবদ্ধ হই এবং আজীবন হিন্দু সংস্কৃতির প্রসার ও প্রচারের শপথগ্রহণ করি।” মালদহে গণবিবাহে ধর্মান্তরণের ঘটনার তথ্য-তালাশ করতে গিয়ে রীতিমতো চক্ষু চড়কগাছ। মালদহের গাজোল Read more...

The Spoken Word

Education, an uphill task for the tribals of Udumanparai

10/03/2020, by Aditi R. in Home Page Articles

For children of the Kaadar community in the Western Ghats, getting an education means leaving home at the age of six to stay at residential schools. Read more...

Meet Badlu Khan, a Symbol of the Syncretic India the Hindu Right Wants to Erase

10/03/2020, by Maya Mirchandani in Home Page Articles

The doorbell rings at 11 am, right on schedule. Delhi is still coming to terms with brutal communal violence that has left 53 people dead at last count, but Badlu Khan Nizami arrives for his weekly music class, determined not Read more...

EG, PCI and IWPC concerned over violence

26/02/2020, by SAWM Team in Home Page Articles, Latest Article

The Editors Guild of India expresses serious concern over the manner in which journalists assigned to cover the violence in Delhi have been targeted for physical attack. There are reports of journalists being hospitalized after such attack. The Guild notes Read more...

SAWM strongly condemns mob attacks on Media

26/02/2020, by SAWM Team in Home Page Articles, Latest Article

The South Asian Women in Media (India) strongly condemns in unequivocal terms the brazen and direct attacks on media professionals in Delhi while they were performing their duty. It is extremely disturbing that reporters / camerapersons were forced to reveal Read more...

Take tough measures against mobs, cops, identify vulnerable areas: CHRI

26/02/2020, by SAWM Team in Home Page Articles, Latest Article

New Delhi, Feb 26 – Calling on both Central and Delhi governments to take all necessary measures to prevent further violence and disruption while fixing responsibility for police inaction and the failure of the civil and political administration, the Commonwealth Read more...