By Abhay Kumar*
At
a time when the Indian media is increasingly being controlled by the
rich and dominated by the caste elites, Countercurrents.org has set up
an example of giving space to multiple voices. On the 22nd birth
anniversary of the news website, Binu Mathew, the editor, talks to Abhay
Kumar on his two-decade-long journey.
The
independent and critical news portal Countercurrents.org was
established on March 27, 2002, after the Gujarat communal violence. It completed its journey of 22 years on March 27, 2024.
During this
conversation, the editor says that his criterion for the selection of
the news stories and commentaries is if they are going to change the
world in a positive way in whatever little way they can.
In
this interview, Binu Mathew expresses his views on a wide range of
issues including the state of mainstream Indian media, the exclusion of
the marginalized sections from the newsrooms, the challenges before
independent and critical journalists as well as the international issues
such as Palestine and the climate change.
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*Ph.D. (Modern History), Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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