A presentation by twelve Graduate School of Journalism print and television
reporters, where they will share a mosaic of stories, slides and video
footage that capture the many faces of India's transition.
April 20, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
North Gate Library
Slated to emerge as a leading global economic power, India has recently
made media headlines with stories about the IT revolution and the new
rich, the construction of suburban malls and the spread of luxury gated
communities. Yet for another India globalization has only reinforced
poverty, caste discrimination and gender bias. Twelve Graduate School
of Journalism print and television reporters traveled last month to
Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Srinagar to look beyond the glowing headlines.
They found a prospering middle class but also villagers selling kidneys
to escape debt, women suffering increasingly from dowry crimes, microcredit
loans wasted, infrastructure crumbling under pressure from foreign investment,
huge profits made from unregulated strip mines. They met one of the
last surviving freedom fighters who looks back at the independence struggle
and a socially concerned urban developer who is rebuilding the crumbling
slums of Mumbai. They filmed a village performance troupe in Kashmir
and discovered how women who lost husbands and sons to a devastating
insurgency find new social and economic roles.
This event is organized by the Graduate School of Journalism and co-sponsored
by the Center for South Asia Studies.
