Anil Chamadia अनिल चमड़िया

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

Developing its own language is a sine qua non for the establishment and sustenance of any system. For instance, Brahamanism has its own language and has been dominating our society for thousands of years

A road is not merely meant get you from one place to another. It is also the way through which new ideas enter the village and old ideas are edged out

They forget that Dronacharya was also a teacher, yet he demanded Eklavya’s thumb as ‘guru dakshina’. Eklavya performed his duty as a disciple. But was Dronacharya being fair? Was he behaving as a teacher should

Two distinct trends were clearly visible in the media coverage of the Gohana incident. The way NDTV India covered the incident was a reflection of the true heritage of Indian journalism