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, October 24, 2019

#MeToo one year later

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Published in Scroll.in on October 5, 2019 (https://scroll.in/article/939216/one-year-after-indias-metoo-campaign-difficulties-of-finding-l...

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Friday, August 16, 2019

Where is that "heaven of freedom"?

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Image courtesy Al Jazeera India turned 72 on August 15. It's now "running" 73, as we li...

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Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Delhi 2012 vs Unnao 2019

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Originally published in Mumbai Mirror on August 3, 2019 In his column on the Unnao rape case ( Mumbai Mirror , A...

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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Humanitarian crisis awaits Assam

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This is a longer version of the op-ed article in The Hindu that appeared on July 17, 2019: https://www.thehindu.com/o...

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

We cannot give up

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I don't know about you, but I have not been able to watch that video of Tabriz Ansari of Jharkhand being beaten to death. I w...

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Has Priyanka Chaturvedi failed women by joining the Shiv Sena – or shown how to survive in politics?

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First published in Scroll.in Priyanka Chaturvedi has failed women in politics. Or perhaps she is showing them the only way to survi...

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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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