Author: Kohli Aakriti, Mazumdar Anurag & Paiker Ufaque
Place: Mumbai
Publisher: TISS
Year: 2012
Pages: 52
Subject: Bombay/ Mumbai
Sub-Subject: Bombay
Keyword: Invisible Mumbai
Shelf: C6R4
Accession No: B1033
Contents: Forootord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: ‘If it bleeds, it leads,’ is a fairly routine pointer used in most newsrooms to identify news stories that merit publication or broadcast. So the dead in a tsunami, the wounded in a riot, the bereaved in a terrorist attack and so also the stabbed lover of an aspiring actress will often find themselves in the news. But this does not mean that the ‘bleed-lead’ rule applies everywhere. In fact, there are countless instances where the cries of those who ‘bleed’ are barely heard, their wounds seldom noticed. Like the woman who loses her home for a fourth time when the municipal bulldozers knock on her door. Like the roadside hawker who everyday faces the ignominy of being illegal and shoved around. Or the slaughterhouse worker, who can barely afford a bar of soap to wipe the blood off his torso. These are stories that are worth telling, these are lives worth knowing about. Yet often these articles are never done, their subjects just quietly hemorrhage to death in a cacophony of silence.