[Reader-list] [Announcements] Invitation for a discussion on City Reporting

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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 characterized 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)

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