Media Crossing Borders

Contents: Preface. Mapping borders: inside-outside perspectives. Themes. Papers: i. "Borders - hard and fuzzy"/Tapan K Bose. ii. Maps as visual texts: geopolitics of representation and resistance"/Sanjay Chaturvedi. iii. "Borders and boundaries and media: the diaspora of imagination"/Afsan Chowdhury. iv. "Spaces within and without: metro media, rural reporting and the north east"/Sanjoy Hazarika. v. "Media demystifying borders: journalist sitting the doorframe"/C.K. Lal. vi. "Contested terrains and trespassing borders: an Indian Tamil\'s Sri Lankan Journey"/A.S. Panneerselvan. vii. "State and state of mind and body: media demarcating community and political associations in Sri Lanka"/Lakshman Gunasekara. viii. "From the archives - media distortions: a consumer\'s reflections"/Anisuzzaman. ix. "Traffickers and terrorists: mapping transgressions of the India-Pakistan Border"/Praveen Swami. x. "Recovering the human face of the border story: marginalised voices"/Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal. xi. "Cross border politics: a perspective from Pakistan"/Amir Mir. xii. Indo-Nepal open border: a natural model for South Asia?"/Kanak Mani Dixit. xiii. "India - Nepal media mismatch: problems of asymmetry and interdependence"/Keshav Pradhan. xiv. Media: an institution that survives on boundary making"/Ranabir Samaddar. xv. "Other face of border nationalism: disenfranchised border peoples"/Anirban Roy. xvi. "Media and border politics: India-Bangladesh experience"/Haroon Habib. xvii. "India\'s maritime boundaries: Sir Creek dispute"/Bharat Bhusan. xviii. "Media negotiations with \'a state within a state\' and other borders"/Rita Manchanda. xix. People\'s borders and nation state borders: the case of the Sri Lanka/D. Sivaram. xx. "Media transcending boundaries"/Beena Sarwar. xxi. "Blurred boundaries: fisherfolk and coastal conflicts"/Charu Gupta and Mukul Sharma. Annexes. Glossary.