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Journalist Rituparna Chatterjee, who writes on press freedom, gender rights, and social disparity, talks about initiating #sisterhood thread and its necessity. To the tweeple, she is @masalabai, who speaks her mind bravely, calling out cavalier attitude of men, a staunch supporter for gender rights. In July, Rituparna Chatterjee started the #sisterhood thread on twitter so that women in the media can avail of job opportunities. Chatterjee, who is currently the India correspondent for international press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, is also keen to mentor the young recruits in media, hoping to prepare a generation of better journalists. Here she talks about #sisterhood and what it means to help women speak and voice their thoughts In earlier interviews you have mentioned that men find new jobs because of the whisper network and that was one reason you started the #sisterhood thread, and also because whenever you had to discuss something or needed support, you turne...

Chatting up journalist Vivek Sabnis, who has brought out the second edition of Pune Nostalgia calendar, which has some rare photos of the city The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history,” says Catherine Opie, an American artist. Journalist Vivek Sabnis might not have harboured the same idea when he went about collecting old photographs of the city he was born and brought up in. But as Sabnis’ collection grew and he put them together into two pictorial calendars – Pune Nostalgia (2017 and 2018), he hopes that they will serve in documenting the city’s history. “For the month of March, we have chosen Vasant Talkies image, which completes seven decades this year. When the picture was clicked in 1975, the talkies was screening Amitabh Bachchan-Shashi Kapoor-starrer Deewar. Outside the theatre, you can see a stack of cycles — a testimony to the city’s badge — Cyclincha Shahar or a City of Bicycles. In four d...