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Hurriyat (M) castigates national media, mainstream parties for ‘diversionary tactics’
By News Desk Hurriyat Conference (M) today lashed out at the Indian media and mainstream political parties ‘for deliberately engaging in a political onslaught to distract attention from the ground situation in Kashmir resulting from Afzal Guru’s hanging’. The Hurriyat spokesperson in a press statement issued from Srinagar said that Afzal Guru’s hanging has angered [...]
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Editorial: Trampling the public voice
Freedom of speech always comes under the pressure of the rulers. In conflict places like Kashmir, being one of the world’s long standing conflict, restrictions on mediums of communication are a daily exercise. In 2008, when the Amarnath Land Row started in summer there were number of local cable television news channels in Valley. Channels [...]
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Freedom under threat
By Adil Langoo For all manners and purposes, the world in its entirety has evolved. From the time of inquisitions and heresies, from war and conquering, it has also suffered a lot. The modern world, particularly the west and democracies like India seem to have misunderstood the arguments that John Stuart Mill once gave in [...]
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Outlookindia.com | By Arundhati Roy Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or a warehouse for its ghosts? Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamont Road in Mumbai, exuding mystery and quiet menace, things have not been the same. “Here we are,” the friend who took me there said, “Pay [...]
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A Perspective On Journalism and Kashmir
One forms a perspective based on two things: what one gets to see, and one’s own sense of reasonability, sensibility and logic. Quite often, in the case of many, it is the lack of both. The ideas and opinions I hold of Kashmir today are based on what I have seen, mostly from afar, and [...]
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Life of a journalist in Kashmir, tells Yusuf Jameel
A parcel bomb blast in Srinagar office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) changed the life of its then correspondent, Yusuf Jameel. He still sits in the same office but never dares to sit in the same room where he lost his friend in the blast. Jameel was born in 1958, started his career as [...]
Media And Mocked Truths
Public opinion runs unabated in the media – this notion is one of the most spectacular achievements in the world today. Masses are made to believe that the media is liberal, when it is only propagandized to advocate the conservative corporate interests and to obey an esurient political class – the ever powerful lobby which [...]
Media has played an important role:
From the past one month we are hearing that Taliban has entered the valley. Whether it was true or a false propaganda to change the tourism environment of valley, we don’t know. But the news spread like the fire in the dry forest. Everyone analyzing the situation some found it good and some found bad. [...]
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