
Mass media and the Modi ‘wave’
What have been the consequences of the extreme mediatisation of the elections and how did we get here?
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | Jun 30, 2014

Modi, media and the feel-good effect
India’s recently concluded general election revealed the power of corporate advertising and PR in determining the tone and content of the media discourse.
Sukumar Muralidharan | Jun 30, 2014

The fact and fiction of news demand
Questions about the creation and consumption of shoddy journalism go beyond equations of supply and demand.
Abhishek Choudhary | Jun 28, 2014

Pakistan’s media unravelled
The current crisis of media in Pakistan reflects a wider historical trajectory.
Sarah Eleazar and Sher Ali Khan | Jun 25, 2014

Sri Lanka’s Orwellian mediascape
Media workshops are not news in Sri Lanka. But in 2014 three media workshops became news, for all the wrong reasons.
Tisaranee Gunasekara | Jun 25, 2014

Bullies in Armani suits
The strategic use of the law threatens investigative journalism.
Lawrence Liang | Jun 23, 2014

Unhealthy reporting
Health journalism remains captive to commercial interests and government policy.
Bindu S | Jun 22, 2014

Quelled voices and amplified silences
Proponents of community radio have had varying experiences in different parts of Southasia and continue to carve out space for this media.
Preeti Raghunath | Jun 20, 2014

The three burials of Danny Denzongpa
Believing everything we hear has consequences.
Pankaz K Sharma | Jun 20, 2014

Labour and change in Myanmar
Myanmarese workers are organising. The consequences for Myanmar’s ‘triple transition’ are still being determined.
K Michener | Jun 18, 2014

A departure from propaganda
Afghan journalism has come a long way, but the battle against tablighat will be ongoing.
Shirazuddin Siddiqi | Jun 18, 2014

Dispatches from a foreign correspondent in crisis
Pallavi Aiyar’s Punjabi Parmesan is an ambitious and, at times, exasperating account of contemporary Europe.
Adam B Lerner | Jun 16, 2014

Who counts as a refugee?
The geopolitics of Afghan and Bangladeshi migrants in Pakistan and the potential for an amnesty on migrants.
Sanaa Alimia | Jun 14, 2014

Partition on the sand
A new book on the people of Banni, a desert region in a corner of Gujarat, examines them as a distinct cultural unit.
Nandita Bhavnani | Jun 10, 2014
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