Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist and author based in Mumbai. With five decades at Indian Express, Times of India, The Hindu and other publications, she writes columns on media ethics gender issue and urban poverty.
From sensationalized Indian TV broadcasts to casual scrolling past human grief, Kalpana Sharma examines how crisis journalism lost its soul in the Nepal floods.
The protest has convincingly established not just the irrelevance of legacy TV channels, but also their continued abandonment of basic journalistic norms.
While mainstream media newsrooms distract with prime ministerial visits and underreported death tolls, independent outlets are left to track the devastating toll of Adani’s coal expansions and redrawn wildlife sanctuaries.
