Topic: Media

"It pains us to share that Sushant Singh Rajput is no longer with us. We request his fans to keep him in their thoughts and celebrate his life, and his work like they have done so far. We request media to help us maintain privacy at this moment of grief," said the statement released on behalf of his family.

India has dropped two places on a global press freedom index to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis.

A total of 81 journalists were killed this year, 348 are currently in prison, and 60 are being held hostage, according to the annual worldwide round-up of deadly violence and abusive treatment of journalists released Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which shows an unprecedented level of hostility towards media personnel.

A fatherly figure in the Indian media, Kuldip Nayar, breathed his last on Thursday early morning.  A doyen of Indian journalism, he etched his name in the minds of readers by his columns and memoirs. His demise comes at a time when the corporate media houses in India are more obsequious to their political masters.

The Network of Women in Media, India, on Tuesday wrote to Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited protesting against two shows on the Tarun Tejpal rape case that were broadcast on its Times Now news channel. The organisation said the broadcasts were illegal and unethical.

The Dalit Camera which has become a rallying point for the Dalits, Adivasis, Bahujans and Minorities, founded by Ravichandran Bathran , a research fellow of IIAS and Dalit activist. It is a huge archive of Dalit Bahujan voices from all over India. Here is the lecture by Ravichandran Bathran on 'Doing and Outdoing Media: The Dalit Camera Experience' held at MBL Media School,Calicut.