The Readers’ Editor is an initiative by The Print to be accessible and responsive to its readers. Each month, Shailaja Bajpai, as Readers’ Editor, highlights readers’ views on ThePrint’s content and writes about issues that confront journalism in a dense and highly contested media environment.
One minute, I am being questioned about the “Razakars and their oppressive rule”. Next, a reader demands an app for the website. Another reader from Thailand wants to contribute articles to ThePrint.
In the last 18 months, ThePrint has continued to track events in Manipur by sending reporters and photojournalists. This is how things have changed on the ground.
You may well ask, what prompted ThePrint to offer its content in Indian languages? Because it’s the logical next step in our relationship with the reader.
Senior journalists at ThePrint taught the students the fundamental principles of good journalism, interspersed with anecdotes and examples from their professional lives.
To see if the new system works, I logged in as a subscriber. I clicked on articles, randomly, and found that most of those annoying advertisements, pop-ups had disappeared.
As India’s stock has risen — whether it is the economy, IT industry, NRI population, or India’s role as a key diplomatic counterpoint to China — the global media’s interest here has increased.
The students are worried about the state of media in India and want to see good, fair, accurate journalism. That’s what attracted them to ThePrint School of Journalism.
To learn about dynastic politics, read ThePrint stories on the Sorens’ battle in Jharkhand, poacher Veerappan’s daughter Vidya Rani in Tamil Nadu, the Ansari family in Ghazipur, and more.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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