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Pamela Philipose

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Backstory: Media’s Eyes-Wide-Shut Approach to Dowry Crimes is Only Enabling it

When it comes to dowry crimes, we may as well be living in the 1970s or ’80s, given the sickening regularity with which they persist in the...

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Backstory: No Media Questions, Please, We Are a Beautiful Country

Listen to this article: If the Modi system had the powers of self-reflection and correction, it may have imbibed three important lessons from the...

23.05.2026 90

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Backstory | Logical Discrepancies in Media Reportage on the Bengal Poll Outcome

It was Verdict Day on May 4, after elections to four states and a Union territory were conducted: with every round of counting indicating that the...

09.05.2026 30

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Backstory | Was it a Women's Reservation Bill or a BJP Preservation Bill? The Media Didn't Say

Wolves in feminist clothing, that is the metaphor the latest shenanigans of the ruling party brought to mind. Suddenly people who have not had a...

18.04.2026 20

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Backstory: Every Election Cycle Leaves India More Polarised, Less Unified

We are on the threshold of an exercise that will see 824 MLAs chosen by 17.4 crore people come to power by early May. It is, in fact, the largest...

04.04.2026 20

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Backstory: The Gulf War Is Destroying Human Lives in Real-Time but Where’s the Media Empathy?

Listen to this article: There is something so familiar about the times we are living through. Images from the past bubble to the surface, coalescing...

21.03.2026 40

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Backstory: Journalism Gets Lost in the Fog of the Iran War Triggered by US-Israel

Listen to this article: The Harold Wilson-ian observation that “a week is a long time in politics” could be gainfully employed to capture the...

07.03.2026 30

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Backstory: Only More Laughter Can Defeat Bans on Laughter – A Wire Learning

Listen to this article: Like God, the censor can work in mysterious ways. On Monday, February 9, this happened: when one clicked to open The Wire’s...

21.02.2026 50

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Backstory: Censoring Parliamentary Speech Blindsides India

08.02.2026 20

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Backstory: Only Credible Journalism Can Solve the Mystery of SIR's Missing Voters

24.01.2026 10

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Backstory: Umar’s and Sharjeel’s Continued Incarceration Presages Our Own

11.01.2026 20

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Backstory: 2025 Was a Year of Shifting Shapes and Shaping Shifts

27.12.2025 10

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Backstory: From Phone Apps to Labour Codes, ‘Consent’ is a Word Missing from the Government’s Lexicon

07.12.2025 20

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Backstory: A Bulldozer Election Machine Being Given the Run of Electoral Field Amidst Media Inertia

22.11.2025 10

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Backstory: As Bihar Votes, Does Media Care About the Shadows Over India's Electoral System?

08.11.2025 10

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Backstory | On its 100th Year, RSS Emerges with Extra Shine Thanks to Media’s Polishing Job

11.10.2025 20

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Backstory: The Rise and Rise of Oligarchies and the Dark Shadow They Cast on Media Freedoms

28.09.2025 30

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Backstory: Nine Years of Taking Aim at Umar Khalid, Media Style

14.09.2025 30

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Backstory | The Assam Model: First They Come for Truth-Tellers, Then They Go for the Voiceless

30.08.2025 30

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Backstory | Stolen Elections Should Make for Compelling Journalism but Big Media Looked the Other Way

09.08.2025 20

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Backstory: Indian Media No Longer Dares to Go into the Dark Labyrinth of Torture

27.07.2025 30

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Backstory: ECI’s Information Strategies to Make SIR and Unmake Indian Democracy

13.07.2025 50

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Backstory: Could There Have Been More Substance, Less Sensation in Reporting the Crash of Flight AI171?

15.06.2025 40

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Backstory | India’s Media Betrayed the Country In a Time of War, Here’s How

17.05.2025 30

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Backstory | In These Post-Pahalgam Times of Multiple Partitions, Will Media Do the Right Thing?

03.05.2025 40

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Backstory: Gulfisha’s Voice Breaches Prison Walls Despite Media Apathy

19.04.2025 20

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Backstory | Kunal Kamra’s Statement ‘I Consent to Comedy’ Emerges Directly From Article 19(1)(a)

29.03.2025 40

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Backstory: Five Years Later, the Lasting Impact of the Pandemic on Indian Journalism

15.03.2025 30

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