Backstory: The Kashmir Model to Discipline Indian Media
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
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Rights13/Feb/2021
âIf democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from usâ¦What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over oneâs own life and authorship of oneâs own experience.â
~ Shoshana Zuboff,
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
What is striking about recent developments in India is the manner in which the media, both legacy and social, have become entangled with the politics of the day. In fact, they have become the site upon which politics plays out.
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More at risk of losing homes as climate change outpaces response, Fiji warns By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments have made progress on understanding how people are forced from their homes by climate stresses and on preventing some of the worst impacts - but there is still far to go before communities are properly protected, top officials said Thursday. Fiji s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama told an online event - to mark five years since global agreements to tackle climate change and disasters were adopted in 2015 - that the threat of worsening storms and rising seas had become more existential by the day.Reuters | Updated: 04-02-2021 23:42 IST | Created: 04-02-2021 23:42 IST