December 2022

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Contributors
8 Grace Jajo is an independent journalist and education consultant based in Imphal. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, IndiaSpend, NewsClick, Agencia EFE and EastMojo, among others. 12 Hartosh Singh Bal is the political editor at The Caravan. 15
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EDITOR Anant Nath EXECUTIVE EDITOR Vinod K Jose POLITICAL EDITOR Hartosh Singh Bal SENIOR EDITOR Roman Gautam BOOKS EDITOR Maya Palit CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sukruti Anah Staneley ASSOCIATE EDITOR Puja Sen WEB EDITOR Surabhi Kanga SENIOR ASSISTANT EDITOR A
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Bar Fight
After a debate in the legislative assembly, the Nongthombam Biren Singh government in Manipur announced, on 20 September, that it would partially lift the liquor prohibition imposed on the state in 1991—when widespread alcoholism and drug addiction a
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Private Interest Journalism
The Adani Group’s attempted takeover of NDTV this year sparked intense speculation about the future of the broadcaster and the effect it would have on Indian media. The multinational conglomerate, founded by the billionaire Gautam Adani, has already
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Whistle In The Dark
On 10 October 2022, the news website The Wire published a story alleging that Amit Malviya, the national convenor of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT department, had special privileges under Meta’s Cross-Check, or XCheck system—through which the organ
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An Ominous Ring
The British East India Company built the Indian telegraph system. William O’Shaughnessy, who had come to India in 1833 as a 24-year-old assistant surgeon with the Company, is said to have devised the telegraph. He soon started experimenting with elec
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Today’s Truth
[1] “MAJOR RUCKUS IN THE VILLAGE RIGHT NOW,” Tanushree Pandey, a correspondent with India Today TV, tweeted at 1.44 am on 30 September 2020. “UP cops & officials forcing kin to cremate body overnight. Family begging that let us at least take the girl
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Agent Orange
SOON AFTER the Indian men’s cricket team beat Pakistan in the Asia Cup, on 28 August, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate on the Golden Mile, a street in the Leicester suburb of Belgrave that is known for its Indian restaurants and shops, as wel
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Clicks and Bait
IN A YOUTUBE VIDEO TITLED “Bulldozer Baba ne diya aisa jawab toh bilbila utha vipaksh”—Bulldozer Baba’s replies rattled the opposition—the baba in question looked tired. His fatigue was understandable. The video was released on 22 February, and Ajay
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Medium And The Message
THE 1960S WITNESSED some remarkable changes in the Indian film landscape. Several regional films were being made in local dialects, such as the first Bhojpuri film Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo, directed by Kundan Kumar. The 1963 film was an inst
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Stop the Presses
Andrew Otis’ Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper depicts the trajectory of the eighteenth-century journalist James Augustus Hicky, who, while based in Calcutta, used a press to start the first printed newspaper in Asia
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Democracy just cannot survive without a free press. And certainly, a country like India, which is so diverse, can absolutely not survive without a free expression of facts and views. And because the mainstream media is now shutting its mouth, out of
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The Bookshelf
A compilation of over twenty poems by the renowned poet Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, translated from Kannada, that gestures to the formal range of his work, from sonnets to free verse and lyric, among others. MANIPAL UNIVERSAL PRESS, S310, 196 PAGE
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Editor’s Pick
ON 21 DECEMBER 1919, the anarchist activist Emma Goldman, seen here addressing a crowd at New York’s Union Square three years earlier, was deported from the United States, along with her partner, Alexander Berkman, and 247 others, during the “Red Sca

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