From dak at sarai.net Thu May 27 21:19:43 2010 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:19:43 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Invitation for a discussion on City Reporting Message-ID: <4BFE9497.2090802@sarai.net> *The Delhi Urban Platform* invites you to *Reporting Delhi: Media Journalism and the City* *5:00 P.M., Saturday, 29th May 2010 Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS* The last two decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation of the city, and previous modes of inhabiting and apprehending the urban experience in India. The contemporary city is characterised by a new visual landscape marked by the proliferation of visual signage, an increasingly dense media landscape composed of the internet, 24 hour news television, satellite TV, and a massive expansion of telecommunications. Accompanying this has also been an increasing sense of the urban as a fraught terrain. In the case of Delhi, - from bombs in marketplaces, to the everyday violence of demolition and construction, from pitched battles over resources and claims on city space, to the increasing policing and surveillance of everyday life by the state - the city seems to exist in a state of permanent crises. The media are inextricably enmeshed in this process. We witness an event almost before it occurs. From sting operations to the continual relay of images of a communal riot, the flooding of newspaper pages and TV screens of images of caught "terrorists" to the glitter of new spaces of leisure and consumption, the media actively produce the dread and exhilaration that accompany living in our cities. This saturday we invite journalists Aanchal Bansal (city reporter for the Indian Express), Aman Sethi (who used to report on labour in Delhi for the Frontline magazine), Rahul Tripathi (crime reporter for the Times of India), Mihir Sharma, Pradip Saha (former editor Down to Earth magazine) and Manisha Sethi (teacher at Jamia and has closely followed media reporting on "terror") to reflect on the role of journalistic practice as a site where the city is reported on, but also written into being. Join us for an open, and animated conservation with: *Mihir Sharma (The Indian Express) Aman Sethi (The Hindu) Aanchal Bansal (The Indian Express) Pradeep Saha (Former Editor, Down to Earth) Rahul Tripathi (The Times of India) Manisha Sethi (Jamia Millia Islamia) * ------------------------------------------------------------ *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: