Dear Shehla, reporters have azadi too
Press Club of India meeting to honour Gauri Lankesh, makes news for a different reason.
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ContributeA large number of journalists gathered at the Press Club of India on Wednesday to condemn the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru. But the focus has now shifted to another incident on the sidelines of the meeting, that of former JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid yelling at a Republic TV reporter. But is it right on her part to shout at a reporter when all he was doing was his job?
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