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If a picture is worth a thousand words, could photographs create a language of their own? Photographic images are everywhere: from photo alb...

Here are some golden words – from “Ethics Matters” columns in News Photographer magazine written by Deni Elliott and Paul Martin Lester: A p...

Objectivity is valued by photojournalists, but nothing replaces the ecstasy of an attention-grabbing, technically-pleasing photograph. It mi...

Many photojournalists ‘cross the line’ in order to get a great shot. They exaggerate or romanticise scenes and subjects to create a greater ...

A photograph is also news. When it appears in newspapers and magazines, a photograph can have tremendous impact in shaping our views. Perhap...

[Citation: brochure of the 17th International Festival of Photojournalism – symposium held on 1 & 2 September 2005 in Perpignan, France....

Drinking champagne and watching photos of dead people? Surely, that’s not the future of photojournalism, worries photojournalist Stanley Gre...

It always delights me to see visitors to my blog. And, the proof lies in the comments left in the ‘comments’ box. I don’t get too many of th...

Until the late 1990s, India didn’t really matter to the world from a political point of view. Yes, of course, India did have an attraction b...

I grew up learning that rural India was about poverty. That three-quarters of the population of India who lived in rural India were engaged ...

In the 1 August 2004 article ‘Amid China’s Boom, No Helping Hand for Young Qingming’ in The New York Times, Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley narr...

According to the 2001 Census, approximately 28% of India’s over one billion population resides in urban centres. That makes more than 280 mi...

Reality is made up of many different perspectives. Yet, we often fail to accept this. The needs and problems of those residing in rural area...

Economics dictates that water is a public good. Its availability is a basic human right. Yet, over a billion poor people around the world la...

After returning from his visit to Andhra Pradesh, Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank President, had lots of good words for the rural women there...

Rural India represents the heart of India. In terms of sheer size and spread, variety of culture, language, polity, religion and customs, ru...

Democracy. Equal rights to all citizens. Civil liberty. That’s what India offers its people. And, the size of that people, in sheer numbers,...

If economic sociology deals with social networks, and if economic sociologists are at work trying to understand human behaviour, why can’t a...

“Our economic decisions are shaped not just by financial interests but by relationships, history, and emotional bonds,” writes Virginia Post...

What does it mean to now have India, along with China, as a major player in the global knowledge market? According to Geoffrey Moore, leadin...