Tracking #OpEds of @IndianExpress, @htTweets and @the_hindu is painful and the results continue to be abysmal.
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Those are the #OpEds. I'm convinced #Editors don't care about #representation.
@IndianExpress had 130 #OpEds, @htTweets 78 & @the_hindu 122.
#PleaseBringInWomen
The quality of #writing overall could be better, but a part of me gets the constraints.
If @surajyengde could please look into this, it'd be great.
This includes two #jointbylines, with #ElaBhatt getting second billing when she wrote with #KaushikBasu.
*I really ought to give up*.
These two women were Sonia Gandhi and Coomi Kapoor, who's IE's consulting editor.
Rajni Bakshi wrote on the right to differ.
(Please cry with me, or lend me a shoulder)
Sole openers were Roshan Farokh Chinoy, Meenakshi Gopinath and Dolly Kikon.
Please #OpEd person of @IndianExpress, please help.
Ashok Gulati, Arun Prakash, Vijay Gokhale, Sanjaya Baru, Swami Agnivesh = 2 each
Let his views remain to his #RajaMandala column, please.
How do you account for that, @IndianExpress?
None of them got featured more than once even in the exclusive online #OpEds.
Swami Agnivesh holds the distinct record of being published in print (a joint byline with Valson Thampu) and an online byline.
Having said, in June, of the 52 #IdeasOnline, women got 17 bylines, with six joint bylines.
It's deeply disappointing that @IndianExpress couldn't make it 50% even here.
June recommended authors are Ta-Nehisi Coates, Elizabeth C Economy, Probal Dasgupta and Benjamin A Elman & Sheldon Pollock.
Nice line up, I guess?
Would be curious to know if @htTweets has ever had a non-male cartoonist.
Meera Srinivasan, who works with Hindu, and Kiran Bhatty are the ONLY women to be feature more than once.
That's really, really sad.
MK Narayanan, Mukul Sanwal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Happymon Jacob, RK Raghavan, MS Seshadri, T Jacob John, Hamid Ansari, Rajeev Bhargava, Md Ayoob, Jayant Prasad. @the_hindu
Suhasini Haidar as usual. The other two were Nirupama Rao, who wrote on Galwan, and Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, who wrote how Jammu is the pawn on the Kashmir chessboard.
Each piece is fascinating. OBVIOUSLY.
Moderated by Puja Pednekar, it featured Kiran Bhatty and Reeta Sonawat.
The Parley had 2 female participants *once* in the past, but the moderator was Jayant Sriram.
I had NO idea that women aren't part of the armed forces and don't have views on government policies.
Their immense knowledge and acerbic wit is legendary: @rtnvir, @AtiyaAbbas_, @curlistani.
Again don't @ me with "WHY PAKISTAN"?
If possible, get @kirubamunusamy to write for you. She's beyond fabulous.
How does it not seem to bother the editors? Seriously? What seems to be the problem? Why are you unable to let women write?
#Studies have been conducted and are being conducted to bring in more #diversity because the world sucks, and newsrooms are a bigger sux.
"Din baney haftey, re haftey maheene, maheene ban gaye saal"