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, July 29, 2020

Indian press is still to give us the full Covid story. It can't be sidetracked by political dramas now

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Broken News (July 16, 2020) F or a fleeting moment this week, it appeared that things were back to normal. Politics dominated th...
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What kind of justice is this?

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Column for Mathrubhumi  (Translated in Malayalam) July 19, 2020 A woman is gang-raped.   Within four days...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

The pandemic: Mirroring our fragilities

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Here's something I wrote for a special issue of the Unesco Courier https://en.unesco.org/courier/2020-3/pandemic-mirroring-our-fragil...
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Should news media use the picture of the Sopore child with his grandfather’s body?

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Broken News https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/07/02/should-news-media-use-the-picture-of-the-sopore-child-with-his-grandfathers-body Que...

Unfair and unlovely

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Column for Mathrubhumi (Translated in Malayalam) If you replace the word "Fair" with "Glow...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Our forgotten frontline workers

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Column for Mathrubhumi (Translated in Malayalam) Link: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/forgotten-female-frontline...

What the decline of opinion pages tells us about the media's role in India

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Broken News https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/18/what-the-decline-of-opinion-pages-tells-us-about-the-medias-role-in-india ...
Monday, June 08, 2020

Media isn’t in the 'positivity' business. Its job is to show the ugly truth

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Broken News https://www.newslaundry.com/amp/story/2020%2F06%2F04%2Fmedia-isnt-in-the-positivity-business-its-job-is-to-show-the-ugly-trut...
Friday, June 05, 2020

Women make better leaders

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Column for Mathrubhumi (translated in Malayalam) (Published May 24, 2020) I n 2009, I met a woman sarpanch i...
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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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