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Mar 31, 2019 • 10 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
A thread of all my pieces in 2019. Will add to this throughout the year. My focus on land rights and media freedoms continue. Watch out for a series on women's land rights later in the year. Also, a series of stories on Hindu fundamentalism.
A look at journalists' safety in 2018. Most murders of #journalists are underreported. Simple fact is that we dont know how many journalists are being killed in the line of duty every day in India.
CC: @pressfreedom @IFJGlobal @pen_int
truthdig.com/articles/the-l…
Women have known for ages that their battle against patriarchy will be sustained, slow, and often disappointing. This is the story of 3,500,000 women of Kerala who began the year with some hope.
sojo.net/articles/women…
The general elections in India is amount the most casteist exercises in the country. Here's a debate I had earlier in the year over what constitutes sensitivity towards caste discrimination, dealing with caste privilege. PS: It is a discussion-in-progress
firstpost.com/living/whats-c…
I spoke to @iissarayu and Alok about the politics of land ownership in rural India. On the eve of India's general elections why should we care about land rights in the country?
@HLRN_India @Landesa_Global @LRI_India @NamitaWahi ivmpodcasts.com/ganatantra-epi…
Traveling through rural Assam was liberating. "The Rabhas, so sure of who they were, where they came from, made me aware of my own urban rootlessness"
thehindu.com/society/jimiri…
Millions of indigenous Indians face eviction from ancestral homelands in name of wildlife conservation. A story from #Chhattisgarh
scmp.com/news/asia/sout…
Why should adivasis care to vote? Here's a story where they question electoral democracy. “It doesn't matter who we vote to power, no one cares for us anyway,” said Sodhi Dula of Bhejji village in the Sukma district of central India.
trtworld.com/magazine/india…
Indian #newspapers feel they need ad sales agents a lot more than they need reporters. Here's why.
CC: @columbiajourn @CJR
cjr.org/business_of_ne…
@columbiajourn @CJR The nuts and bolts of Indian #journalism have come apart. This is what I saw. Be scared, everyone.
foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/02/ind…

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Nov 30, 2022
Anyone who knew about #Adani 's August acquisition of a minority stake in #NDTV and its open offer to take over the company, knew this day was coming. But, just like death, we were in denial until it came. 1/n
Dr Roy and Mrs Roy’s resignation from the holding company teaches us 2 things
1) It is tough as hell to run a media company in contemporary times, esp in India.
2/n
2) How NOT to assume economic growth will last a lifetime while making financial decisions for a media (any?) company. Prudence should be priority
3/n
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Mar 17, 2022
Fantastic editorial by @the_hindu on the #HijabBan today. The court had to merely assess if "wearing of the hijab, in addition to the prescribed uniform, without variation in colour, was a ground to refuse entry into a school or college" not if hijab was an ‘essential practice’.
@the_hindu "If something is egregiously religious, it is more likely to be kept out of the campus, if uniformity and eliminating any ‘sense of separateness’ are the hallowed goals."
thehindu.com/opinion/editor…
"The ‘essential religious practice’ test itself is a pointless exercise, as the Supreme Court has established a nearly unattainable standard to determine it. Something is an essential practice only if its absence or removal has the effect of destroying the religion itself"
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Aug 16, 2021
It is of course sad that #KabulHasFallen but here are some important aspects to consider.
The population of #Afghanistan is very very young. The median age in the country is 18.4 years. Approx 42% of the country is younger than 14! Meaning, they were born after 2001.
Close to 27% of the population of #Afghanistan lived in cities. They were exposed to media of various kinds (radio was the predominant medium in rural Afghanistan).
Those who were young and urban dwellers were mostly educated until secondary schools or were even enrolled in universities.
Of the 38 million Afghans, 10 million were students!
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Jan 26, 2021
Farmers leaders have told them to start the rally by singing the #NationalAnthem
#FarmersProtests #tractorParade
In #Mumbai, where farmers have filled #AzadMaidan, a senior woman farmer will hoist the flag.
#FarmersProtests
#tractorParade
#MumbaiWithFarmers
In #Bangalore, farmers who are protesting have food packets sponsored by transpersons organisations.
#FarmersProtests
#TractorRally
Read 23 tweets
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Dec 27, 2020
As we end 2020, it is a good time to look back at an explicitly unconstitutional law, which is brandished with utmost impunity. #TooMuchDemocracy?
Here are some fun facts about the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020. A compilation.
1/n
Usually, police takes years to update themselves about laws. For instance, sex workers complain that police still use the Immoral Traffic (Suppression) Act of 1956 to harass them, even though the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act was passed in its place in 1986.
2/n
The UP Ordinance or #LoveJihadLaw was promulgated on Nov 28. And first case was registered within hours of its passing.
Efficiency max?
It has been a month and there are 35 arrests in a dozen FIRs
3/n
 indianexpress.com/article/india/…
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Jun 18, 2020
Just like the case against the awe-worthy @sharmasupriya for her reporting in #Varanasi, here's a list of FIRs filed against #journalists in #UttarPradesh in the last year. Fasten your seatbelts, it will not be a short #Thread
#PressFreedom #lockdown2020 1/n
In March, at the height of the #lcokdown, @thewire_in's @svaradarajan was delivered a legal notice by police from Ayodhya. A quote in an article was wrongly attributed UP the Chief Minister, which was retracted and a corrigendum issued.
On 26 March, DM of #Varanasi sent a legal notice to Hindi daily Jansandesh Times claiming their report about tribal children eating grass for want of food due to the sudden announcement of the lockdown on March 24 was false. 3/n
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