Crossing the line
More and more journalists are turning authors delivering 'quickies' on topical subjects, fiction novels and even memoirs as they work to express themselves in a space far larger than provided by the media.
The Killing Fields
Chandran Iyer outlines the gruelling lives of daredevil journalists who are working in the conflict zones of J&K, North-East and the Red Corridors. While scribes in metro cities are wooed by PR guys with cocktail, gifts and foreign junkets, those working in high-risk zones are paid a pittance and they have to also guard themselves against death threats.
Yet another scapegoat
The arrest of Syed Mohammed Kazmi by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police is being seen as an attempt to pressurise the Urdu and other regional media to not drift away from the propaganda line being touted by Israel and the US while reporting on West Asia
Suppression of Press
Does it carry any element of truth that the media in the Kashmir Valley is under a government scanner, and that there is a virtual suppression of speech on press?
Scribes get beaten up in Kolkata
On February 28 this year, Kolkata witnessed the latest attack on journalists when Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists thrashed Partha Pratim Ghosh (24), a cameraman-reporter of ABP group's Star Ananda at Jadavpur.
Fatal attack on Kumara Rytha by miners' goons
It was on March 29, 2010 that Kumara Ryta, the district reporter of Suvarna News Channel in Bellary, was allegedly beaten up by goons of the Reddy Brothers.
Paying the price for professional integrity
A senior reporter working in the Kollam bureau of Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, V. B. Unnithan is another victim of attacks on media persons.
Caught in a family spat
Kishore, correspondent of Thamizhaga Arasiyal, a political biweekly in Tamil Nadu, could not have expected how deeply he would get into trouble when he wrote a political story in June 2008 about J. K. Rithish (a DMK MP from Ramanathapuram), then a DMK functionary.
It's free for all in Bihar
On January 27, BJP goons attacked The Pioneer Assistant Editor Amarnath Tiwary, while he was watering plants in the basement of his apartment. They beat not only Tiwary but also his brother who tried to intervene.
"Hey! Your voice is on the rise"
Since the mid-1980s, the police of Andhra Pradesh (AP) have idiomatically created a buzz line for bullying against the assertive journalists to intimidate them: "Hey! Your voice is on the rise.
Attack on journalists in Pipli
A group of anti-socials, allegedly at the behest of the Notified Area Council (NAC) chairman of the Pipli area of Puri district, S. K. Babu, who was aggrieved over the publication of a news item in Sambad about him, attacked Rajat Ranjan Dash, the Pipli reporter of the said publication on February 4, 2011.
TAXED FOR TELLING
Umaria district in Madhya Pradesh. Chandrika Rai, his wife and two teenaged children were murdered in cold blood on February 18, 2012.
Fear Factor
Once there was this man whom the neighbours and relatives called an ‘idiot’ all the time. This man, to take revenge on all those who called him so, began killing them one by one, breaking their skull, and then eating their brains.
“Shourie was flavour of the monthâ€
Another clash caught me almost immediately. It involved Arun Shourie. Over the years, Mr Shourie and I have not seen eye to eye on many issues - something I don’t regret.
“My experience with Shourie was not happyâ€
I believed in maintaining a distance from the owner because that way an editor would have more leeway and there would be less room for misunderstandings. Occasionally, Goenka would call me to Sundar Nagar for a chat. I found it remarkable that Arun Shourie (who went on to become a Union Minister in 1998) was always present.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
