[pmarc] Reimaging India - National Press Day 2021

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Reimagining India Public Lecture Series

National Press Day

‘Reimagining India’ series hopes to start a conversation to explore the contours of a society that is more just, equal and aligned to the Constitutional values of liberty and fraternity. 50 lectures on relevant themes by leading public intellectuals and political leaders will provide an alternate vision for the country. On the National Press Day we are sharing lectures by two prominent journalists.

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Bhartiya Media ka Bhavishya

Language- Hindi

Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Senior Editor, The Wire

https://youtu.be/mvheuggZI28

Arfa Khanum Sherwani highlights that the 1990s privatization reforms have democratized information to a certain extent. Yet, we see an increasing attack on independent media and freedom of the press in recent times. The government is seen enforcing control over traditional media to control information detrimental to their electorate. She discusses the importance of digital media as a crucial platform of independent information that kickstarted mass movements of 2020, one being the Anti-CAA and the other being the Anti-Farm Bills movement giving hope to the possibility of freedom of the press in the future. Arfa K. Sherwani reimagines digital media as a people-supported medium to replace traditional media to become the fourth pillar of Indian democracy, bringing back independent and free press.

The Journalism You Deserve

Language English

Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, The Caravan

https://youtu.be/WnNzl7gN3C8

Hartosh Bal discusses journalism and its difference from the term “Media” and explains how all big media houses in the country are owned only by a small trading caste which evidently also funded ‘Hindutva’ in the beginning of the 20^th century. He then further talks about the impact and repercussions of this ownership and says journalism today are restricted by ownership, and that those which are not, are being clamped down by the government. Given all these constraints on journalism, he talks about what we as the people can do about it as he explains the importance of good journalism as a means for the people to connect with the government.

Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre- PMARC has been initiated with the support from group of senior journalists, social activists, academics and intellectuals from Dalit and civil society to advocate and facilitate Dalits issues in the mainstream media. To create proper & adequate space with the Dalit perspective in the mainstream media national/ International on Dalit issues is primary objective of the PMARC.

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