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The media as it is and should be: In conversation with Kunda Dixit
Kunda Dixit (@kundadixit), Publisher and Chief Editor of Nepali Times was in Sri Lanka recently, where we caught up for a brief conversation on the issues related to journalism in South Asia and more broadly.
We began by probing why Kunda, after a Masters in Micro-Biology, switched his focus to journalism. We then talk about how Kunda realised the potential reach and power of digital media when he was, quite literally, on top of a mountain with a mobile phone.
We then discuss the impact of social media in Nepal and journalism writ large, noting in particular references to social media by Turkey’s Prime Minister after the anti-government social unrest in his country recently, the UK’s Prime Minister after riots in London a few years ago and the Sri Lankan Secretary of Defence, Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s recent pronouncement that social media in Sri Lanka is a national security threat.
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