by Editors | Jan 27, 2025 | National Meets
By Editors The countdown begins for the Network of Women in Media, India’s 19th National Meet in Guwahati from 31 January-2 February 2025. This year’s theme is ‘Media, Conflict, Climate Change: Impact on Women’. More than 200 women mediapersons from across the...
by Editors | May 6, 2024 | 2024 Parliamentary Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Durba Ghosh The number of women candidates has been on the decline since 2014, but women voters are turning out in greater numbers than men. Promises galore have been made and benefits doled out but in Assam, even as women outnumber the male voters, the...
by Editors | Apr 20, 2024 | Community, NWMI Fellowship
By Helvellyn Timungpi At the NWMI meeting in Mumbai, February 2024. Photo courtesy: Supriya Unni Nair Helvellyn Timungpi from Diphu, recipient of the Sixth NWMI Fellowship for Women Journalists shares highlights of her journey over the past year. Karbi Anglong is an...
by Editors | Dec 11, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections, National Politics
By Ninglun Hanghal There has been a positive churning in electoral politics in northeastern India in recent years. Women are slowly but surely making their way into state Legislative Assemblies as elected members (MLAs). Although the numbers are still relatively small...
by Leena Reghunath | Nov 25, 2021 | Awards
NWMI member Ranjita Biswas has won the PFC-Valley of Words Award, 2021, for her translation of The Loneliness of Hira Barua (Pan Macmillan, 2020) from the original Assamese to English. The collection of short stories, originally titled Mariam Austin Othoba Hira...
