Mediafile
Reporting Palestine
The Southasian press is growing increasingly attuned to the history of the Palestinian struggle.
Chhetria Patrakar | May 28, 2021
Too keen to withhold?
Why we know so little about the temporary blocking of the Twitter accounts covering farmers’ protests.
Chhetria Patrakar | Feb 03, 2021
The myth of mainstream
On the dangerous trajectory of state institutions and popular media in India.
Chhetria Patrakar | Aug 22, 2020
How free is the media in Southasia?
Governments are finding new ways to silence the press thanks to COVID-19.
Chhetria Patrakar | May 05, 2020
‘A picture of malicious intention’
On the Chinese embassy’s undiplomatic letter to a Nepali newspaper.
Chhetria Patrakar | Feb 19, 2020
The PEMRA penumbra
Pakistan’s state-run media regulator tries to shut down TV-news anchors.
Chhetria Patrakar | Nov 01, 2019
Ad-freeze zone
The Modi government has reportedly been cutting ads to major newspapers.
Chhetria Patrakar | Jul 09, 2019
Who owns India’s media?
We need more studies on media ownership in Southasia.
Chhetria Patrakar | Jun 06, 2019
Bhutan’s media maladies
The closure of a weekly paper in Bhutan signals a troubling decline in media diversity and journalistic space.
Chhetria Patrakar | Apr 04, 2019
The disappearing act
Al Jazeera website inaccessible in Bangladesh after publication of an investigative report.
Chhetria Patrakar | Mar 25, 2019
Latest Articles
Swear not by the moon
The contentious politics of lunar sighting in Pakistan.
The storyteller of Kovilpatti
On Ki Rajanarayanan, the father of Karisal literature.
Southasia’s COP26, Bhutan’s political prisoners, the politics of listening and more.
Southasiasphere episode 13: Updates and analysis from around the region.
Against forgetting. Against erasure.
On meaning, storytelling, and memory-making in Kashmir.
