Media Narratives: The Kashmiri Pandit Story

Abstract

While the media industry has been often criticized in the sense of bias and sensationalizing, it can be evinced that most of the narratives that inform the consciousness of the people are spun from the figments of media reports that have emerged across time and space. The world today is a saturated space with images and stories of variant kind that attribute meanings to a particular event or identity. In case of minority cultures, this formulation of identity overlaps with the mediation brought forth by the facets of religious affiliations, community, political ideologies and gender roles that pervade in the society. The condition of the Kashmiri Pandits in the contemporary parlance and the perspectives of opinion surrounding them in terms of what happened and is happening, is of critical importance. The paper is an attempt to understand the milieu of reporting as seen both in the old media, new media and social media.