Anil Chamadia अनिल चमड़िया

A person who reads one newspaper will consider what is written there as the gospel truth. There will be as many “truths” as the number of newspapers one reads. The same is true of the TV audience

Instead of meticulously building the media to bring about fundamental changes in society, our leaders use it for short-term political gains

The members of the Indian ruling class today use English expediently, enhancing their image while keeping the masses ill informed

Before you accept a news story or a theory as the truth, see if it is logical, find out who it came from and look for motives

Nitish Kumar thought that by ensuring 24-hour power supply, he would make the voters happy. They would be able to watch TV, they would be able to charge their mobiles. But what actually happened was just the opposite. People watched TV and charged their mobiles but then Modi appeared on the screens to lead them into his dreamland

For the last several years, the Media Studies Group has been monitoring the kind of news that is not published or telecast. Here are examples of what is published and what is not so that the readers can understand the economics, sociology and politics of the phenomenon

The CAG reports often expose the claims of governments and the gap between what they preach and practise. The media should use the CAG report as a tool of self-appraisal. What did it miss? And why?

A bare reading of the collection of his speeches is enough to see why Kanshiram, during the initial days of his movement, laid equal stress on collecting resources, motivating people, sharpening organisational skills and developing Bahujan media

Despite having recorded the incident, the media organizations, which shift into the ‘Breaking News’ mode at the drop of a hat, kept this news under wraps for almost a week. For inexplicable reasons, the sensational news that a Shivsena MP force-fed a Muslim observing Roza in front of media persons was canned

Interestingly, just as Gandhiji was a supporter of the varna system but was opposed to atrocities on Dalits, similarly it is often seen even today that those opposed to atrocities on Dalits join hands with the oppressors to oppose reservations