Election Workers Labour for Democracy but Never Get the Spotlight During elections, discussions about voters, election rallies, leaders and their speeches are everywhere. This is natural since elections revolve around these issues: who will voters vote for, where wi...

#SaumyaJyotsana, #NWMI member, writes:
During #elections, discussions on voters, rallies, leaders and speeches are everywhere. However, the voices of the officials on the ground, including BLOs, are drowned out by the noise.

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Game of Blokes On October 10, 2025, women journalists were excluded from a press conference held in New Delhi by Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister, who was on a visit to India. Only male journalists ...

After condemnation from media professionals & civil society about the exclusion, the Minister held another press conference the next day. This time with some women journalists invited, too.

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Monthly #InkSights illustration by #NWMI member #AnupamaBijur, titled #GameOfBlokes Illustration shows a chess-board like surface in which journalists are shaped like chess pieces, colour coded blue for men and red for women. A larger-than-life hand emerges from out of the frame in the right to move one of the red chess pieces. The illustration is a commentary on the exclusion of women journalists from the recent press conference by #Taliban along with the Indian union government, in #NewDelhi.

A Game of Blokes

Women journalists were excluded from the Taliban press conference in Delhi. Proving again that it’s not easy for women to be visible and have a voice in the media.

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