Deciphering Contemporary Silence in Indian Academic Spaces
Rama Devi and Deepshikha Sharma | 27 April 2025 | Doing Sociology
In May 2023, a viral video of Kuki-Zo women being paraded naked, and who were subsequently raped by a mob, brought forth the decade-long simmering ethnic tensions to erupt. But it took more than two months for this heinous crime of sexual abuse and violence against women to find momentary attention in the Indian media – that too only after it was reported and run by the New York Times. In contrast, the Indian media was quick to report from the “ground” Israel-Palestine war that was unfolding on the global stage (Apoorvanand 2023). The long history of occupation, killings and displacement by Israel was rendered absent as all attention was on the violence by Hamas. The diplomatic position of the GoI was uncritically regurgitated by the media in a decontextualized manner– empty of its checkered past…