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Nov 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Nava Thakuria |Chris Hedges |R Rajagopal |Phil Pasquini
As the year 2024 approaches the penultimate month, reports over the killing of journalists and other media employees from different parts of the globe continue to be pouring. Shockingly, most of the culprits in those homicides enjoy impunity thanks to the police inaction, low political will and an elongated judicial process, precisely in southern countries like India.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | R Rajagopal |Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Mrudula Bhavani
We, the undersigned journalist organizations condemn the registration of a second FIR by the Gujarat police against senior journalist Mahesh Langa in a span of less than a month. Langa is presently in judicial custody. He was arrested earlier this month by the Ahmedabad crime branch on an alleged case of GST fraud, even though he was not mentioned by name in the primary FIR.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Ugen Bhutia |R Rajagopal |Mohd Khan
The recent remark made by the Supreme Court is a significant event that has revitalized the fundamental rights of freedom of expression for journalists. The core of journalism in a democracy is to examine the policies, plans, and governance of the government and present the truth to the public. For this purpose, it is necessary for journalists to have the right to criticize fearlessly.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
theaidem.com | R Rajagopal
The Telegraph’s Editor at Large R Rajagopal writes on the arrest of Mahesh Langa, Senior journalist of The Hindu based in Ahmedabad and the multiple concerns that this development has evoked in him, which also includes the manner in which large sections of the media have covered the arrest. The following is a note to my friends that I am compelled to say I wrote in my personal capacity because I no longer know when personal messages become social.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | R Rajagopal |Mrudula Bhavani |Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) condemns the life threatening attack on Uttarakhand based journalist Yogesh Dimri, whose small digital channel Aanwala News has been in the forefront of exposes about the drug and liquor mafia operating in the state. Dhimri is also known for his bold reportage of the Ankita Bhandari rape and murder case. The attack left him badly injured and he is in hospital. A video of the attack has become viral.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Neeraj Jain |Latheef Farook |R Rajagopal
The forthcoming budget should place heavy emphasis on vulnerable groups having the largest percentage of poor and disadvantaged people. These include scheduled castes and scheduled tribes of course but in addition a substantial section of minorities and OBCs, particularly extremely backward castes, nomadic and de-notified tribal communities.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | R Rajagopal |Mohd Khan |Binoy Kampmark |Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The following is sourced from social media and attributed to R Rajagopal, editor-at-large, The Telegraph. THE REPORT ON RAHUL GANDHI THAT MANY GILDED EDITORS DID NOT WRITE LAST NIGHTThe Editors Guild of India on Saturday evening issued one of the most important statements in recent memory although the print-media coverage that I saw today does not reflect the real import of the appeal to Rahul Gandhi for the Leader of Opposition’s support to raise in Parliament “pressing issues” of media freedom.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
muslimmirror.com | R Rajagopal
By R Rajagopal“I was a bad teacher. I must explain what this meant in affiliated colleges of the Madras University at the end of the fifties (1950s). We had division strengths of a hundred and twenty, and often two divisions were dovetailed to make a class of two hundred and forty boys, and I was given one such class to teach. I was myself a fresher, and it was my misfortune to meet them for the first time with a line from Wordsworth.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
muslimmirror.com | R Rajagopal
By R RajagopalI am writing this at 2am, when most newspapers must have gone to bed (jargon for the plates being laid on the bed of the printing machine, ready to roll). I presume that like me, the newspapers also must be turning and twisting in their beds, unable to sleep, although I personally have very little stake in journalism now.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
citytimes.co.in | R Rajagopal
News By: R RajagopalThe toll in the Israel-Hamas clash has surpassed 1,600 in four days, with more than 900 casualties reported in Israel and over 600 in Gaza Strip. The conflict is related to a surprise rocket barrage fired by Hamas into Israel on Saturday. New Delhi, 10 Oct (City Times):(PM Modi supports Israel): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India is extending its support to Israel in its war against Hamas.
