ulti khopdi

This blog is written by a journalist based in Mumbai who writes about cities, the environment, developmental issues, the media, women and many other subjects.The title 'ulti khopdi' is a Hindi phrase referring to someone who likes to look at things from the other side.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

'Media Owners Always Ensure That Journalists Crawl, During Emergency And Now Again'

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Posting here this interview that appeared in The Citizen on June 26, 2017 KARTHIK VENKATESH Monday, June 26,201...

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Saturday, June 17, 2017

Media in the Modi era: How did India’s watchdog press become so docile?

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Published on Scroll.in on June 16, 2017 India is talking about the 1975 Emergency again even as its 42nd anniversary, on June 25, hove...

Wednesday, June 07, 2017

NDTV raids: The BJP’s saffron-tinted view of India has no room for a watchdog media

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Published in Scroll.in on June 5, 2017 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk The message to critics is clear: We are watching you and w...

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

A Book of Memory and Forgetting

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Published in Economic and Political Weekly Splintered Justice: Living the Horror of Mass Communal Violence in Bhag...

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Sunday, April 02, 2017

Sahayak sting: The Army has a few questions to answer – but so does the media

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Published in Scroll.in Should the media discuss the question of ethics and sting operations when a journalist has been slappe...

Thursday, March 30, 2017

40 years since the end of the Emergency

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It is now 40 years since the end of the Emergency promulgated by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975. It ended when in the general elections on...

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When a "womel" replaced a "manel"

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If all-male panels are called "manels", what should we call an all-woman panel? Womels? People, meaning eve...

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Monday, March 06, 2017

Erasing history

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Here's a small news item that many people would have missed as they browsed their Sunday newspapers looking for more exciting fare. Bu...

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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Elections from a gender perspective

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There is a gender angle to elections -- all elections. A collective of women journalist, the Network of Women in Media, India has set up a...

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Thursday, December 08, 2016

Trying to make sense...

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I cannot pretend to be an economist. I know a few basic rules about how economies function, having learned this on the job...

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Kalpana Sharma: Journalist, columnist, writer based in Mumbai. Worked with Himmat Weekly, Indian Express, Times of India and The Hindu. Was also Consulting Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, and Readers Editor, Scroll.in Currently writes a fortnightly column, Broken News, in Newslaundry.com Author of "Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's largest slum" (Penguin, 2000). Other books include "Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues" edited with Ammu Joseph (published by Sage 1994/2006), "Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out" edited with Ammu Joesph (published by Kali for Women, 2003). Editor of "Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters" (published by Zubaan, 2010) and "Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women (published by Women Unlimited, 2019). "The Silence and the Storm: Narratives of Violence against Women in India" (published by Aleph,2019)

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