: How to deal with Omicron – and three other weekend reads #IndiaNEWS India’s mainstream national media has “predominantly two modes of representing Adivasis�, writes Akash Poyam in the Caravan

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India’s mainstream national media has “predominantly two modes of representing Adivasis�, writes Akash Poyam in the Caravan magazine. “They are either represented through a racist lens – in which Adivasi dance, dress and culture are exoticised – or their stories are presented through narratives of pity and victimhood.�Even in states with large Adivasi populations, such as Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, “local newspapers are filled with celebrations of Hindu festivals, while Adivasi festivals find no space in them�.But a new wave of Adivasi media platforms is challenging this misrepresentation and invisibilisation of Adivasi communities, Poyam writes, “by defining journalism on their own terms.�Read the piece here.The Omicron threatIn the past week, as Omicron overtook Delta to become the dominant coronavirus variant in the United States, essays published in The Atlantic capture the confusion of the moment. Ed Yong, the science journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his explanatory writing on the Covid-19 pandemic, wrote about why he decided to cancel his 40th birthday celebrations in the wake of the Omicron wave. More pointedly, another piece co-authored by Yong with Katherine J Wu and Sarah Zhang cautioned against taking Omicron lightly: “A milder but more transmissible virus can spread so aggressively that it ultimately causes more hospitalizations and deaths.� But political scientist...Read more

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