So why did the Indian media choose to ignore a huge human tragedy which, by virtue of its proportions, has to be considered “breaking news” by any objective criteria, asks KALPANA SHARMA

The language used to describe those who protest in Kashmir is not just a matter of semantics. It is important because it places what is happening within a context, says KALPANA SHARMA. Pix courtesy: worldsikhnews.com

This new generation did not care that the victims of Bhopal were demanding that Dow Chemicals be held answerable for the pollutants still lying on what the media now loves to call ground zero. ANJALI DESHPANDE says Sanghvi's main purpose is to deflect attention from the uproar to fix blame for Bhopal.

While one journalist uses fashion vocabulary to locate a cultural type, the other finds a moralistic high ground to defend her. Both appear to believe that to be meaningful, a woman must be in self-denial. SHEFALEE VASUDEV asks why fashion is the first casualty when trendy vocabulary is used to describe an offender.

You do a story on Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. And your heading is always that eternal liner: “Rio's plea for peace and development.” AL NGULLIE takes you down the road Naga scribes travel every day.

What was striking was how judgment day was used to virtually endorse mob justice by repeatedly airing the views of “the people” who wanted Kasab to be hanged immediately. KALPANA SHARMA on the coverage of the judgement on Kasab.

The problem with this rejoinder is that it confuses between lively writing and libelous writing. It places reporters in rigid blocs allowing no mobility between them. VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM's reply to Vrinda Gopinath's rejoinder.

Do public figures have privacy rights? Should reporters travel in packs, writing essentially the same story because anything different will raise questions of impropriety? VRINDA GOPINATH's rejoinder to Vidya Subramaniam's critique in The Hindu of her article in Outlook.

In the run up to a general election the Guardian asks its readers to write in on which candidate it should endorse. KALPANA SHARMA wonders what a similar exercise would yield in India.