The Green Pen Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia

includes index and biblioraphy

SECTION ONE ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING 1 Environment Stories, among the Most Challenging 3 Lyla Bavadom 2 This Separate Category 12 Kunda Dixit 3 Environmental Journalism at the Time of Economic Liberalisation 20 Richard Mahapatra 4 Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalisation 28 S. Gopikrishna Worrier 5 The Most Serious News 35 Sunita Narain 6 Writing about the Birds and the Bees 38 Keya Acharya 7 My Words, It`s Still Fun! 45 Sudhirendar Sharma 8 Problems of Aesthetics and Misplaced Altruism: Media and Environment in Northeast India 51 Kozimuddin (Kozu) Ahmed 9 Good Journalism, That`s All 59 Kolpana Sharma 10 Media is No Longer the Fourth Estate 64 Devinder Sharma 11 Lost in the Smog 72 Dionne Bunsha 12 Tourism and Beyond: Does Environmental Journalism Matter? 79 Frederick Noronha 13 Environment Journalism, Maldivian Style 86 Ahmed Zoki Nafiz 14 Uphill and Downstream in Pakistan 95 Beena Sarwar SECTION TWO SCIENCE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT 15 Good Science, Environment Journalism and the Barriers to It! 109 Pollava Bagla 16 Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues 116 Patroleklia Chatterjee SECTION THREE WILDLIFE JOURNALISM 17 At the End of a Dark Tunnel, a Faint Light 127 Nirmol Ghosh 18 Tiger Defends the Biodiversity 135 Molini Shonkar SECTION FOUR ENVIRONMENT AND WATER 19 The Media`s Role in Water and Sanitation 151 Sahona Singh 20 Water Journalism Warrants Better Attention 157 Shree Padre SECTION FIVE REPORTING ON DISASTERS 21 Dispatches from the Frontline: Making of The Greenbelt Reports 171 Noloka Gunawardene and Manori Wijesekera 22 Floods: Blacked Out but Real 184 Sunita Narain 23 Turbulence: How Volunteers Cyber-Responded to a Tsunami 187 Peter Griffin SECTION SIX PHOTOJOURNALISM 24 Stop All the Clocks! Beyond Text, Looking at the Pics 203 Max Martin 25 What Does One Photograph Do To Depict a Flood? 208 Shahidul Alam 26 It Was a Long Journey 213 Nondon Soxena SECTION SEVEN COMMUNICATING ON THE ENVIRONMENT 27 Paradigm Shift in Agricultural Communication 225 Shivarom Pailoor 28 A `Global City` vs the Fjivironment 232 Ardeshir Cowosjee 29 Wild Panther in Miramar? Goa on the Verge of . Environmental Hara-kiri 236 Nondkumar Kamat SECTION EIGHT GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT 30 Reporting Gender and Environment: Beyond Tokenism 251 Loxmi Murthy SECTION NINE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS 31 The Grass is Greener This Side 261 Meena Menon 32 The Chipko and Appiko Movements 271 Pondurong Hegde SECTION TEN AN ANIL AGARWAL READER 33 Media Games 285 Anil Agarwol 34 Saying It with Pictures 288 Anil Aganvol 35 No Screen Presence Anil Agarwal