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Tag: citizen journalism

  • Until next March 8th

    Until next March 8th

    Can Women have some dignity…? We have so many popular slogans and campaigns running, every Rotary club and any other club worth its salt is talking Women’s Day let’s not forget the feminist seminars and public debates, RJ’s screaming at the highest pitch that their voice about the greatness of women, lets look at ground…

  • Community Radio

    Community Radio

    Travelling by the KSRTC Rajhansa I heard a language I had not heard in years, familiar, yet unfamiliar one got the drift of the language it was Byaari the language of the local Muslims. Which my friends Shameem and Naseem spoke. And it was being aired on the community radio. The young twenty something kid…

  • Women Journalists of Kashmir.

    Women Journalists of Kashmir.

    Women Journalists of Kashmir. Sameer Yasir is a favourite writer of mine, and I like the way he thinks, this time round he shared the emerging women journalists of Kashmir. Here were some things that struck a chord. Emerging young women of Kashmir, something has changed in the valley, women are opting to be journalist…

  • The Community Garden at Taleigao

    It is such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth to feel at one’s finger tips the possibilities of the new seasons. Growing up in rural west coast, between fields and kitchen gardens we pottered around, it helped us connect and the single greatest lesson that we learnt was that our relationship…

  • Mutation Not Evolution.

    An interesting prompt. How do we teach kids to keep environment safe? The answer is WE DON’T, the onus of keeping the earth safe, for human existence is on us and not the kids. Let’s  just take a deep a breathe, and connect with the environment, ever thought of it? Turn the television off, the…

  • Corrupt Citizens

    Corrupt Citizens

    When we talk corruption, a non performing government we are talking of a corrupt population and a society that takes pride is getting away with non performance. Just last evening there was someone who had come to discuss something with MrD. on their way out, they chanced on me working on something, The younger of…