PRESS RELEASE Press Club of India’s Inaugural Literary Festival and Book Fair Concludes on a high note, Promises Bigger Event in 2026 The highlight of the festival was ₹10 lakh in book sales, alongside 12 book launches and 18 Publishers participated #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival

@sighyush recounted how after the abrogation of Article 370 someone wrote that this will lead not to the Indianisation of Kashmir but to the Kashmirisation of India. #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival

#PCILitFest2025: Reporters @AlizaNoor1501 @shivangi441 @JournoSaumya @sighyush about the challenges they face while reporting on the ground in conversation with @surabhikanga. They shared incidents where they faced violence and threats on the ground for reporting stories that went against the government line. They described how often, the local administration blocks them from reporting in sensitive areas by barricading around the houses of survivors of communal violence. They also spoke about how measures used to stop reporting in areas such as Kashmir are now used widely across India. The reporters also discussed how Muslim journalists have to be careful about their revealing their identity on the ground out of fear for their safety. Reporters also discussed how the internet is a tool that helps them get public support in case they face attacks and suppression, but also becomes the source of trolling and hate. The journalists also discussed that it is important to speak to survivors of violence and hate crimes in a dignified manner, and to win their trust, instead of just seeing them as a story. They also noted that it is not just the leadership in newsrooms that should have better caste and gender diversity, but reporters themselves. #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival

Inaugural Panel: Challenges to a free press @HartoshSinghBal speaking at the #PCILitFest2025 about how reliable, critical reportage of Kashmir has disappeared from our press today. #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival

Inaugural Panel: Challenges to a free press @UrmileshJ on the historic lack of diversity in Indian media. He mentioned how he met four editors after the Mandal commission report came out who had not read its contents but were writing editorials about it. #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival

Inaugural Panel: Challenges to a free press @HartoshSinghBal speaking at the #PCILitFest2025 about how the control of media is concentrated among a group of castes and how journalists must muster courage within themselves. #PCILitFest2025 #PCILitFest #PressClubofIndia #LitFest #BookFair #FoodFestival