http://www.thehoot.org/web/images/top.jpg http://www.thehoot.org/ 140 The hoot The Hoot http://www.thehoot.org en-us COPYRIGHT @ 2007 thehoot.org ALL RIGHTS RESERVED http://thehoot.org/ 10 The Hoot excerpts a passage from Kalpana Sharma’s edited volume Missing Half the Story Journalism as if Gender Matters. and introduced by SUBARNO CHATTARJI http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4710 Varsha, a reporter with the IndiaUnheard community news service, talks about her fight against domestic violence to STELLA PAUL. Photo credit Video Volunteers http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4595 The problem with this rejoinder is that it confuses between lively writing and libelous writing. It places reporters in rigid blocs allowing no mobility between them. VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM’s reply to Vrinda Gopinath’s rejoinder. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4515 Do public figures have privacy rights? Should reporters travel in packs, writing essentially the same story because anything different will raise questions of impropriety? VRINDA GOPINATH’s rejoinder to Vidya Subramaniam’s critique in The Hindu of her article in Outlook. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4512 Letter to the Hootâ€'responding to Sheetal Vyas’s rejoinder on why women watch some kinds of soaps. "I was appalled at what I saw on Laado says HARMANPREET KAUR." http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4458 For a very long time now, media watchers and analysts have berated the average viewer for her tastes, shuddered and averted their eyes from the gaudy colours, the campy vamps and the bizarre plotlines. In spite of the presentation, merely the fact that television serials deal with a long line of female protagonists is encouraging, says SHEETAL VYAS. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4443 TV soaps with bizarre, regressive storylines seem wildly popular and, according to studies, empowering too. Are these script writers more in touch with reality than literal minded activists and journalists, asks SEVANTI NINAN http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4441 Their PTCs may lack the finesse of a Barkha or a Nidhi Razdan but it’s hard to miss the conviction and confidence with which they do them. ANIL KUMAR P describes how Muslim girls are shedding the burqa to shoot films. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4405 Young Indian women are taking to journalism in droves, these numbers do not necessarily translate into gender awareness. RANJIT DEVRAJ interviews AMMU JOSEPH, Indian journalist, author and media watcher. IPS features. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4384 The news presents a skewed picture of a world in which women are almost absent in positions of authority or responsibility outside the home. AMMU JOSEPH reports on the findings of the fourth edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4373 Women parliamentarians, journalists and civil society members from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh begin to work together on women and HIV AIDS. TERESA REHMAN describes this coming together of three sectors. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4319 "We are living in tenuous times. This region has one of the worst records of women?s rights in the world. That?s why it is so important to raise our voices and strengthen our bonds." PAMELA PHILIPOSE reports on a women journalists’ meet in Lahore. (Women?s Feature Service) http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4159 Radio stations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) started by the Pakistanl government in 2006, use women’s voices to counter the militantÂ's propaganda. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM describes the women in Peshawar who are spearheading a media movement. Women’s Feature Service. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4105 The years of clashes and even the grim problems of today have found a reflection in the writings of some Bodo women, who have chosen to use their pen to describe the realities that their community is facing. UDDIPANA GOSWAMI profiles these women. WomenÂ's Featuere Service. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4102 Kannada, Telugu and Tamil papers and TV channels gave the 377 story a lot of play. For a society that brushes uncomfortable issues under the carpet, the bombardment of images, interviews, talk shows and news clips was a welcome change, says SIDDHARTH NARRAIN http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4050 Gone are the days of mother in law taunting the daughter in law to irritate. She now gets her kin knifed on a highway by her henchmen. PADMAJA SHAW says Telugu serials are empowering women by making them evil. Pix Mogali Rekulu on Gemini TV http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4037 When the Imphal Free Press carried a photograph recently of a rape victim, it generated these two editorials. The paper allowed a leader writer to have her say, but also countered it two days later, with its own view. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4009 When it comes to a particular type of assertive and sexist humour, it’s The Telegraph that has momentarily led the show in Kolkata city, says DEEPTANIL RAY. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3995 In this conservative domain populated by liberal women, Akbar’s cry for change is a cry in the wilderness. DASU KRISHNAMOORTY wonders why the press here is hyperventilating about Sarkozy’s statement on the burqa. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3958 The articles written after the Imphal NWMI meeting do not cover the issues of havoc caused by umpteen insurgent groups, which is no less in measure than the human rights violation by the AFSPA, says SUREKHA SULE http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=25&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=3943