Jayashree Arunachalam

Apr 29, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jayashree Arunachalam

In the preface of his book The Cooking of Books, the story of his relationship with his reticent editor Rukun Advani, Ramachandra Guha writes that he presumes readers will interpret it in different ways.  This could be as “a memoir of friendship, as an elegy to a lost word, as a partisan account of publishing in India, as a self-indulgent celebration of elite male privilege” or, as he sees it, “an author’s tribute to the remarkable...editor who made his books possible”.

Apr 5, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jayashree Arunachalam |Nirupama Subramanian |Shabbir Ahmed |Anand Mangnale

The media must be free and fair, uninfluenced by corporate or state interests. That's why you, the public, need to pay to keep news free. ContributeTamil Nadu votes in the general elections in precisely 15 days and sections of the media might be telling you to expect a “three-cornered” contest between the DMK, AIADMK and the BJP. The two Dravidian parties, the Tamil public, and political analysts may not quite agree with this assessment.

Feb 26, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jayashree Arunachalam

Yet accidents and tragedies continue. Workers scarcely receive registration cards, let alone welfare benefits like medical insurance or retirement benefits. Many of them in Sivakasi are Dalit, because other food processing units in the region do not employ them due to casteist notions of ‘purity’. Women make up over 70 percent of the workforce but are paid half as much as men. Needless to say wages have, even for the men, have failed to keep pace with inflation.

Feb 20, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jayashree Arunachalam

A Chennai court on Monday, February 19, awarded one month imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MLA S Ve Shekher, in relation to a case booked against him for sharing an offensive social media post against women journalists. Though Shekher paid the fine, he submitted a petition in the court stating that he will appeal in the high court against the sentence, following which the sentence has been stayed.

Feb 1, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jayashree Arunachalam

Rajinikanth finally had to issue a clarification – that his daughter never said Sanghi is a “bad word”, she’d merely “questioned why her father was being branded that way”. These dizzying u-turns may appear confusing to outsiders, but it is simply a reflection of the challenges that Rajinikanth faces in a state where #GoBackModi reliably trends every time the prime minister crosses the border.