Thread by @parthpunter

Happy to share I have received a grant from the Pulitzer Center (@pulitzercenter) for a series of stories I'm reporting from Marathwada.

The series is examining the impact of #covid19 on some of the most marginalised sections of the society.

So far, at @PARInetwork, I have published eight stories that look at various fallouts after the second wave of COVID-19.

The rest of the series will be published in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

Until then, just a recap of the stories we've done so far.

Cries for help have been flooding social media in the last few weeks.

But that is hardly an option in rural India, where people helplessly sit in the hospital, and hope for the best.

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/in…

The #SecondWaveofCovid19 ominously penetrated rural areas.

It put journalists based in the hinterland at great risk, for it's difficult to find a decent hospital without traveling some distance.

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/ru…

This piece looked at how funerals are now more about logistics than loss.

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/th…

On vaccine shortage in rural areas and how modi's vaccination policy ensured a headstart to tech-savvy urban population.

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/wa…

In the absence of adequate public health infrastructure, people are compelled to go to private hospitals even when they can't afford to.

In Marathwada, a one time medical emergency is pushing farmers and labourers into permanant poverty

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/we…

On grossly understaffed public hospitals

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/be…

The 7th story in the series looked at how the Tuljapur temple -- with a turnover of Rs. 400 crores -- worsened #COVID19 crisis in Osmanabad.

"It was similar to the Kumbh, but on a smaller scale," said an official.
ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/in…

On the acute shortage and blackmarketing of remdesivir

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/i-…