Qureshi's mother, Osama label, media spotlight By Kishore Budha<http://subalternstudies.com/?author=1>• Sep 19th, 2008
http://subalternstudies.com/?p=712 <http://subalternstudies.com/?p=712#> Zubaida Qureshi (mother of Abdul Subhan Qureshi — ASQ — the named suspect in the Delhi bombings) spoke to the media. Note the subtle differences in the presentation of *Hindustan Times *in comparison with *Times of India *and *Indian Express*. This representation is part of an ongoing narrative that has unfolded after the blasts. All three newspapers have narrativised Zubaida through the frames they have imposed on public opinion — the presumed guilt of ASQ. Her public appearance and appeal to her son is coopted by the frame of ASQ's culpability. A television channel has now headlined: "*Is techie Tauqeer India's Osama Bin Laden*" . This post concerns itself with the specific issue of re-presentation in newspapers. Zubaida appeared before the media yesterday dressed in a burqa, and that is how she chose to present herself to the outside world. Ordinarily this should be a value-neutral act. The media cannot help how she appears in public. However, it does become problematic in its re-presentation in the media and that is an indicator of journalistic and newsroom subjectivies. Note the contrasts in the presentation of Zubaida's appearance between*Hindustan * *Times *and the other newspapers. While *TOI, IE, *and *Hindustan *publish a picture of Zubaida along with her appeal, *Hindustan Times *crops her image and blows it up to give prominence to her identity as visible via a narrow opening in her burqa. Media researchers have demonstrated that the representation of the veil by media in liberal democracies positions it as either a threat to liberal societies or as symbolic of female oppression. <http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ht_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> Hindustan Times, Page 1, Del Edition, 18 Sep 2008 *Compare the presentation of Hindustan Times (above) with Times of India, Indian Express, and Hindustan (below) * [image: Times of India, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008]e<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/toi_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> Times of India, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 [image: Indian Express, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ie_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> Indian Express, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 [image: Hindustan, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hindustan_del_p1_18sep08.jpg> Hindustan, Delhi, Page 1, 18 Sep 2008 [image: ToI, P4, 18 Sep 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/toi_del_p4_18sep08.jpg> ToI, P4, 18 Sep 2008 [image: HT, P5, 18 Sep 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ht_del_p5_18sep081.jpg> HT, P5, 18 Sep 2008 [image: IE, P9, 18 Sep 2008]<http://subalternmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ie_del_p5_18sep08.jpg> IE, P5, 18 Sep 2008 Mukharji, Arunoday (2009) 'Is techie Tauqeer India's Osama bin Laden?' CNN-IBN Tue, Sep 16, 09:49 [Online] -- "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault ANIL Anil Tharayath Varghese National Centre for Advocacy Studies Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony Pashan, Pune 21 Phone - 02022952003/4 Mobile - 09890387877 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
