Defence journalism, though very much a part of modern day journalism, has practically very little literature for reference. Being the first book on defence journalism, with special reference to India, it analyses the love-hate relationship between the military and the media. For the first time the definition of defence journalism has been encoded by the author. The book elaborates the essential information, facts, sources, and the qualities required to become a successful defence journalist. A code of ethics for defence writers and the caution against pitfalls of defence reporting is the hallmark of the book.

This Book Asserts The Right Of The Media To Inform The People About Our Armed Services, Their Capabilities And Needs In Changing Times. An Openness About Our Defence Preparedness Would Also Bring Vout In The Open Vested Intrests In Arms-Deals And In The Execution Of Multi-Crore Projects. Without Dustjacket.

Indian Defence Review (IDR) is India's best-known defense journal. Over the year the journal has attained the "most quoted" status by defense and security analysts worldwide. The journal offers an incisive analysis of defense and politico-security affairs focused on Asia. In addition to defense and security analyses, each issue includes regular feature sections on aerospace trends, naval affairs, and army force developments, including the latest arms transfers and news. Indian Defence Review, a quarterly journal, is read by almost all leading policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political and military levels. Time and again, the incisive analyses in the Indian Defence Review have helped form opinions and shape strategic responses on the sub-continent.As well as this new volume, Casemate is pleased to be able to offer back issues of this important publication.

The concept of National Security in the 21st century has expanded beyond our traditional dimensions of security as purely national defence by a state and its military, to policies that accommodate security from the perspective of state and its people. In this context, the powerful tool of media, colossal and integrated, has become an inseparable tool for information dissemination and a continuum in policy intervention for states to secure their integrity and sovereignty. Also, for a democracy like India with a diverse society, its multilingual media becomes an available and active platform for deliberation of actions and rationale to develop opinions and decisions that serves the purpose of independent and palpable citizens involved in the broader decision making. Thus, moving beyond the textbook definition of media to educate and inform, the book focuses on the Indian media in particular as influential and imperative in the current scenario and its role in fighting the psychological war alongside the state and its forces, and against contemporary national security threats such as terrorism. It tries to understand the Indian media in its varied theoretical forms and the projection of its power to the people who employ it and those who synchronize its events. The book also tries to understand the intermingling of conflict and the Indian media, while indulging in newer concepts such as peace journalism and strategic education. However; the role of the Indian media continues to be under question due to its nascent pragmatic endeavours, and thereby needs to be defined categorically and holistically in the Indian domain. This exercise aims to centre the Indian media on its role as an eminent player and collaborator of policies on security and at the same time futuristically assess the extension of its perceived role in the larger dimensions of India's national security.

As A Watchdog Of Public Interest And The Voice Of The Small Man, It Is The Duty Of The Media To Uphold Democracy By Exposing What Those In Authority May Prefer To Gloss Over Or Hide. But In This Age Of Instant Communication And Twenty-Four-Hour Television, The Focus Is On Breaking The Story As It Happens, With Little Attempt To Interpret And Analyse. In This Context, When Everything Appears Big And Yet Superficial, Has The Big Story Become Defunct Or Is It More Important Than Ever Before? Breaking The Big Story Showcases Great Moments Of Indian Journalism, When Journalists Chose To Lead Rather Than Follow The Mob, To Investigate And Forewarn, To Expose Corruption At The Highest Level, To Intervene As Ghastly Events Unfolded In A Bid To Pre-Empt Them, To Cover Ethnic Strife In Foreign Lands, To Tear Away The Blinkers From The Eyes Of A Gullible Nation That Sought Refuge In Its Sporting Icons, To Pose As Arms Dealers And Investigate Dubious Aspects Of Defence Purchases, To Cover Communal Clashes And Point To A New Direction. In Short, To Break A Big Story. This Volume Brings Together Nine Essays On Major Stories Or Exposés By Their Authors In The Indian Print Or Electronic Media. Raajkumar Keswani Writes About His Attempts To Warn People Of The Looming Dangers Posed By Union Carbide In Bhopal And The Death Three Years Later Of Thousands Of People Following The Gas Leak. Sampad Mahapatra Questions The 100-Year-Old Definition Of Death By Starvation And Discovers That People Will Eat Anything To Keep Death At Bay. Sanjoy Hazarika, Teesta Setalvad And Muzamil Jaleel Relive The Horrors Perpetuated In The Name Of Ethnicity And Identity In Assam, Gujarat And Kashmir. Anita Pratap Recollects Similar Problems Across The Waters In Sri Lanka. Chitra Subramaniam Retraces The Trail Of Kickbacks In The Bofors-India Howitzer Deal To High Offices In The Country. Tarun Tejpal Goes A Step Further To Show That Corruption Cuts Across Party Hues. And Pradeep Magazine Writes About His Meeting With A Bookie And How The Subsequent Exposure Of Cricket Match-Fixing Did Not Really Come As A Surprise. The Nine Essays In This Collection, Written Long After The Big Stories Were First Published, Evoke A Range Of Emotions: Compassion, Shame, Horror, Outrage, Disgust. They Raise Issues Of Media And Governmental Responsibility And Document How Democracy And The Fourth Estate Have Matured In India.

In The Absent Dialogue, Anit Mukherjee examines the relations between politicians, bureaucrats, and the military in India and argues that the pattern of civil-military relations in India hampers the effectiveness of the Indian military. Informed by more than a hundred and fifty interviews with high ranking officials, as well as archival material, this book sheds new light on both India's political and military history, as well as democratic civilian control and military effectiveness more generally.