SAMSN Blog

  • 14 Jun 2017
    The New Normal Of Living With No Internet In Kashmir

    By Arshie Qureshi Comments

    Composing an email can sometimes be more than typing and pressing a send button. For over an year now, the meaning of sending and checking emails has changed for me. It means hours of dictation on the phone to any friend who is connected to the inter...

  • 12 Jun 2017
    Invisible bars

    By Sam Jahan Comments

    On the guise of clamping down on religious extremism, Bangladesh has often shutdown the Internet. But this causes more misinformation and speculation, says Sam Jahan. I had to re-write this essay several times: to remain safe. You may wonder why. I w...

  • 07 Jun 2017
    Royal Kill-Switch

    By Prateek Pradhan Comments

    Prateek Pradhan, editor-in-chief, baahrakhari.com, recalls the Nepal King’s absolute communication clampdown in Nepal more than a dozen years ago, and discusses the lessons learned. Ujjwal Acharya: In February, 2005, King Gyanendra cut off all comm...

  • 02 Jun 2017
    E-curfews: Killing hope in Kashmir

    By Faisul Yaseen Comments

    Faisul Yaseen, political editor of the English daily Rising Kashmir published from Srinagar, provides an insider’s view of how error 404 is crushing journalism in Kashmir. Every now and then Kashmir finds itself in an age when Larry Page, Mark Zuck...

  • 31 May 2017
    Internet: Oxygen for Journalism 

    By Saadullah Akhter Comments

    Quetta-based journalist Saadullah Akhter says that internet shutdowns are tantamount to shutting down journalism itself, especially in the remote areas of conflict-prone Balochistan. In the 21st century when the world is virtually a global village an...

  • 12 May 2017
    Loss of a critical voice

    By Ujjwal Acharya Comments

    Ujjwal Acharya pays tribute to his friend, Yameen Rasheed, a bold and courageous voice of dissent in the Maldives, silenced in the prime of his life. “You never know what’s in store in the future. I could get killed, or I could live a normal life...

  • 24 Mar 2017
    Technology has made it easier to harass women

    By Farzana Ali Comments

    Farzana Ali is Bureau Chief, AAJ TV- Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan What are you experiences with online harassment and trolling from your work? Whenever I do any programs about the government of Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KPK), which i...

  • 24 Mar 2017
    Stand by and support other women journalists

    By Dhanya Rajendran Comments

    Dhanya Rajendran is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The News Minute, a digital news platform reporting and writing on issues in India, with a specific focus on the five southern states. She is the former bureau chief, South India, for Times Now tel...

  • 24 Mar 2017
    Awareness and collective countering key to fight online harassment

    By Dilrukshi Handunnetti Comments

    Dilrukshi Handunnetti is consultant editor at the Daily and Weekend Express, the first international newspaper published from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is also the Co-convener of the South Asian Women in Media, Sri Lanka. What are you experiences with...

  • 17 Mar 2017
    Trolling is stoppable

    By Laxmi Murthy Comments

    Understanding trolling behaviour holds to clue to stopping it. Trolling and online abuse is today an ugly reality of the online space. The phenomenal opening up of opportunities to reach out and disseminate news and opinions online is accompanied by ...