<p class="bodytext">The 2019 edition of ‘Article-19’, the annual media event of the School of Communication (SOC) - Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), was inaugurated at SOC Auditorium here, on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The event was flagged off by Dr Anand Ranganathan, Consulting Editor of Swarajya and Bobby Wahengbam, Manipuri filmmaker and recipient of National Film Award.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ranganathan, who spoke on the topic ‘Science, Selectivity and Public Discourse’, explained how there was not a single independent media house in the country and almost all being prisoners of their self-constructed ideology. "What is the right to freedom of speech if it doesn’t give you the right to offend?” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“There are two things that young journalists exhort: firstly, that journalism should be independent, and secondly, that there is no such journalism which is not subjective”, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eminent Manipuri Director Bobby Wahengbam, screened a short-film “Joseph Ki Macha” (Joseph’s Son). “Even though the cinematic landscape in Manipur is marred by financial constraints, the gap between films and audience is decreasing,” he said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">The 2019 edition of ‘Article-19’, the annual media event of the School of Communication (SOC) - Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), was inaugurated at SOC Auditorium here, on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The event was flagged off by Dr Anand Ranganathan, Consulting Editor of Swarajya and Bobby Wahengbam, Manipuri filmmaker and recipient of National Film Award.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ranganathan, who spoke on the topic ‘Science, Selectivity and Public Discourse’, explained how there was not a single independent media house in the country and almost all being prisoners of their self-constructed ideology. "What is the right to freedom of speech if it doesn’t give you the right to offend?” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“There are two things that young journalists exhort: firstly, that journalism should be independent, and secondly, that there is no such journalism which is not subjective”, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Eminent Manipuri Director Bobby Wahengbam, screened a short-film “Joseph Ki Macha” (Joseph’s Son). “Even though the cinematic landscape in Manipur is marred by financial constraints, the gap between films and audience is decreasing,” he said.</p>