Drafts by Bharati Bharali
Indigeneous Knowledge, Culture and Media in North East India, 2024
Indigenous communities carry a vast repository of knowledge passed through generations, formed by... more Indigenous communities carry a vast repository of knowledge passed through generations, formed by their collective lived experiences and deep insights into the natural world. Meticulously transmitted through customs, stories, and practices over centuries, this wisdom is deeply ingrained in their daily activities and connection to local ecosystems. Passed orally, this indigenous wisdom includes insights into ecosystems, local flora's medicinal properties, agriculture, and harmonious coexistence with nature. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations acknowledges the crucial role of indigenous knowledge. Indigenous knowledge in India has a rich history as well. Traditional knowledge repository, termed as Dakar Bachan from Assam holds a significant role in understanding agriculture and the past knowledge. What is truly remarkable about Dakar Bachan is their ability to simplify even the most intricate ideas, providing the community with easily digestible and memorable packages of wisdom. This paper aims to explore how such Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge is represented in Dakar Bachan, what are the dimensions covered by the oral knowledge and whether the agricultural practices mentioned there in are relevant in Assamese agrarian society.
Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, and Media in North East India , 2024
Indigenous communities carry a vast repository of knowledge passed through generations, formed by... more Indigenous communities carry a vast repository of knowledge passed through generations, formed by their collective lived experiences and deep insights into the natural world. Meticulously transmitted through customs, stories, and practices over centuries, this wisdom is deeply ingrained in their daily activities and connection to local ecosystems. Passed orally, this indigenous wisdom includes insights into ecosystems, local flora's medicinal properties, agriculture, and harmonious coexistence with nature. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations acknowledges the crucial role of indigenous knowledge. Indigenous knowledge in India has a rich history as well. Traditional knowledge repository, termed as Dakar Bachan from Assam holds a significant role in understanding agriculture and the past knowledge. What is truly remarkable about Dakar Bachan is their ability to simplify even the most intricate ideas, providing the community with easily digestible and memorable packages of wisdom. This paper aims to explore how such Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge is represented in Dakar Bachan, what are the dimensions covered by the oral knowledge and whether the agricultural practices mentioned there in are relevant in Assamese agrarian society.
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With the extensive interplay of messages, media and language, mul7ple narra7ves pertaining to a s... more With the extensive interplay of messages, media and language, mul7ple narra7ves pertaining to a single story and each narra7ve taking the en7re story to a different turn of events are almost common occurrence. Almost all the issues currently domina7ng the na7onal and interna7onal media have mul7ple aspects, which are not the sole determinants of the way the story is narrated but also how news stories could be manipulated for furthering propagandas. Media narra7ves unknowingly help readers construct their own imagina7on, build ideology and follow a par7cular perspec7ve based on earlier narra7ve experiences. Likewise in presenta7on of truth too, there are two dis7nct categories, discursive and narra7ve. AAer years of rigorous work, the final Na7onal Register of Ci7zens (NRC) list of Assam was published on 31 st August, 2019, which was publicly made available online on 15 th September, 2019, and was found to have leA out 1.9 million people. Earlier, the final draA NRC, published on 30th July, 2018, had excluded from the list 4 million people, and was subsequently subjected to further modifica7ons. The recent media furor over NRC list of the state of Assam of India led to one such ripple effect and the manner in which the stories were narrated had a different outlook altogether. This paper will deal with such aspects and study the manner in which conflict, violence and governmental policies could be reflected differently through different na7onal and global media houses.
Papers by Bharati Bharali
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014
Documentary films are considered as one of the "discourses of sobriety" that include all the elem... more Documentary films are considered as one of the "discourses of sobriety" that include all the elements of life. Based on realities, documentary films are mirror of sorrows and sufferings of people and have the universal cultural expression. The mighty river Brahmaputra has nourished the lives of North East India including trans-national natives in its majestic journey. Like other 'eco-cinema', many filmmakers have depicted the association between Brahmaputra and its communities from their point of view. 'Eco-cinema' represents a diversity of creative productions that addresses issues related to the intertwined relationship between human and natural world as well as retrain perception as an alternative to conventional media spectatorship. This paper attempts to understand how documentary films are engaging river Brahmaputra as a source of eco-cinema to understand the socio-cultural ethos in North East India. The Old Man River of Gautam Bora and A River story of hope and despair by MouliSenapati were taken into consideration to comprehend the norms of visual language practiced in this part of the world. Like many rivers of the world, Brahmaputra shapes the valley with its own command. The river sometime is the source of all miseries for the valley. Man becomes helpless in front of the nature's will. Their peace, happiness and dreams shatter when the river becomes a gigantic one; only the struggle for existence remains as the background music of life. Extensive use of extreme long and close-up shots is a fascinating common character in the films that no doubt creates the emotional bonding of the audience and the narrative content.
Media Watch, 2018
Fake news and its repercussions are now a global concern, especially in the wake of the recent in... more Fake news and its repercussions are now a global concern, especially in the wake of the recent incidents that have shook the credibility of media, be it regional, national or global. Media is now a web of propagandas and there are more views then news. Three stories (Myanmar coup, Dimapur Lynching, and Grenfell Tower fire) were taken as case study to understand the morphology of fake news. These news stories have been representative of the news globally, nationally as well as regionally but nevertheless bearing a powerful impact in the news scenario. All the stories have one thing in common primarily designed to suit agenda setting and framing theory, to suit the agendas of political interest as well as cultivate ideas in the minds of the people. Deducing from the analysis, the paper suggests media filtering for restoring credibility, accountability and authenticity of journalism. The paper also framed onion layer trapping that could be a plausible source of fake news
This paper tells about the narrative style in the Assamese cinema. It also talks about changes t... more This paper tells about the narrative style in the Assamese cinema. It also talks about changes through the time scale, by taking a few landmark cases from the history
Fake News: Credibility, Cultivation Syndrome
and the New Age Media
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