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.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Times Now’s Tejpal tapes mark a new low for journalism. Now, it’s the turn of viewers to speak up

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What explains the channel’s decision to air footage submitted as evidence in an ongoing ‘in camera’ trial?  Talkin...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Remember Kathua

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I am posting this on my blog.  It says what I feel with all that's going on.  And I wrote it although it is an editorial in the Economi...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Who will save these women and children?

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This was probably one of the most gut-wrenching traumatic days I have spent in a long while.   It was worse for th...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

Remember Kunan Poshpora

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I was reminded today that February 23 is being marked as Kashmir Women's Resistance Day to mark the atrocities suffered by Kashmiri wom...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

The real moral duty of journalists: Not to dance to the tune of the powerful

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Appeared first on Scroll.in An NIA statement about an arrested Kashmir photographer should prompt journalists to consider how far their...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Is a woman in India not a citizen with the same rights as others?

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It is extraordinary that in a case that has grabbed headlines and been followed breathlessly by the media, the obvious gender angle has...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

The smog that India and Pakistan share

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It is a crisis that requires our politicians to become statesmen, to think of the future generations rather than...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

A Week to Remember

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My reflections on a week on three important judgments. Barely six days after India celebrated its 70th Independence Day...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

It’s time for another freedom struggle: A Midnight’s Child looks back on India’s 70-year journey

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Published in Scroll.in on August 14, 2017 I am almost Midnight’s Child. I arrived some weeks before the magic hour. On August...
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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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