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TRANQUEBAR PRESS
MAKING NEWS, BREAKING NEWS, HER OWN WAY

TRANQUEBAR PRESS
An imprint of westland ltd
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First published in TRANQUEBAR by westland ltd 2012

Copyright The Media Foundation 2012

All rights reserved

ISBN: 978-93-81626-49-8

Typeset in Dante MT by SURYA, New Delhi

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, circulated, and no reproduction in any form, in whole or in part (except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews) may be made without written permission of the publishers.

CONTENTS

B G Verghese

Devaki Jain

Neerja Chowdhury

Barkha Dutt

Sevanti Ninan

Shahnaz Anklesaria Aiyar

Sakuntala Narasimhan

Sheela Barse

Madhu Purnima Kishwar

Kalpana Sharma

Tavleen Singh

Chitra Subramaniam

Usha Rai

Pushpa Girimaji

Shohini Ghosh, Sabina Kidwai, Shikha Jhingan, Ranjani Mazumdar, Sabeena Gadihoke and Charu Gargi

Sucheta Dalal

Teesta Setalvad

Alka Raghuvanshi

Manimala

Sheela Bhatt

Shubha Singh

Annam Suresh

Rehana Hakim

Anita Pratap

Pamela Philipose

THE LADY WITH TWO CAMERAS:
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HOMAI VYARAWALLA
Sabeena Gadihoke

Homai Vyarawalla

Vasavi Kiro

Priti Soni

Bano Haralu

Shikha Trivedy

Sonu Jain

Shalini Joshi and Disha Mullick

Sunita Narain

Ratna Bharali Talukdar

Nilanjana Bose

Sreerekha B

Rupashree Nanda

Nirupama Subramanian

Vinita Deshmukh

Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija

The Chameli Story

The Indian media has witnessed exponential growth since the economic reforms of 1991. Deregulation-triggered growth, burgeoning investments and a flush of advertising released a pent-up demand for more and varied media outlets in all languages and genres. One of the animators of that process was the Indian woman mediaperson who has surged ahead in numbers and professional excellence.

The Emergency of 1975-77 was a watershed in Indian journalism when censorship was ruthlessly employed to keep a whole nation in thrall. The Emergency lifted, the combined Opposition to the ruling coalition offered a symbolic seat in Kerala to a journalist to contest the poll as an Independent on the plank of press freedom. The Indian media rallied to the cause with donations and support. It is from the overflow of those contributions, in excess of the permissible ceiling on election expenditure prevailing at that time, that the Media Foundation was established.

When the Media Foundation instituted the annual Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson in 1980, women had started entering the field in larger numbers but were still on trial in the eyes of male proprietors and editors, though some had already begun to make a name for themselves.

The award was partly endowed by her family and hence named after Chameli Devi Jain, a simple housewife who joined the freedom struggle in Delhi, exemplifying values of independence, courage and dedication. The first award was given in 1982, for work done in the preceding year. Entries were adjudicated by an independent jury whose verdict was final. Though only one award was intended to be given each year, the number rose to two and, on one occasion, to three, as the jury found it difficult to compare television and print, and rural/small-town and large media-house journalists. But standards were maintained and the award steadily acquired increasing prestige, though the prize has consisted of no more than a citation and books.

The Chameli laureates today include some of the best-known and respected names in Indian journalism. They have brought more than just fame to themselves. They have pioneered and popularised a new journalism in terms of themes and values such as social development, rights, gender justice, health and family welfare, equity, consumer values, compassion and the burden of war, conflict, and deprivation on women.

This has imparted a new dimension to what constitutes news and its portrayal through a whole new body of hitherto unseen and inarticulate actors. They have brought new perspectives to bear on earlier stereotypes.

The Chameli Story, bringing together the lives and work of a number of awardees, speaks of how these women have broken new ground and added something to the profession and to society through their endeavours.

Even a mere listing of awardees and their fields of work illustrates the point.

We have here those who have broken ground in reporting on rural and social development, tribal uplift, consumer affairs, war, scams, the stock market, internet news, communal conflict, foreign affairs, city news, sex workers, the environment, investigatory analysis, less covered regions like Kachchh, the North-east, tribal Jharkhand, photography, culture, slum women and children.

The awardees have come from all regions and all classes of media enterprise. Their story is therefore more than a series of individual portrayals, but maps two sociological phenomena: gender assertiveness and expanding definitions of news worthy of front page and regular attention. If many eminent and deserving entrants are not here it is because of strong competition in that particular year from rival contenders. In many cases, the jurors preferred to select the younger and lesser-known journalists from smaller towns and rural India who lack the access and backing of large city channels and publications. The awardees come from all parts of India and represent several languages, depicting a coming-of-age of Indian journalism.

One truth must be told. It is that young women journalists have shown great courage in reporting in situations of danger. Kashmir is a striking example where the Indian national media disgracefully vacated the field for a while in the early stages of militancy and terror in the 1990s. They have also shown themselves to be as intrepid as the best in reporting from conflict zones.

There have been two exceptional awards. One award for Lifetime Achievement went to Homai Vyarawalla, Indias oldest, best-known and greatly admired woman photo-journalist and chronicler of our times, who passed away this year in January at the age of ninety-eight. The other was to Rehana Hakim, the fearless editor of Newsline , Karachi, a womens collective, given on the occasion of the golden jubilee of South Asian independence. Newsline remains at the barricades under her leadership.

The Media Foundation has been greatly honoured to manage the Chameli Devi Jain Awards for well over a generation, uniquely counting both a mother, Prabha Dutt, and daughter, Barkha Dutt, among its laureates. Maybe, too, this award has added something to the wind under the wings of these awardees, lifting them to greater heights.

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