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The attack on the Muslim bangle seller in Indore on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan is a reminder of how syncretism has been demonized in New India. 1/n
‘Bisati walas’, a common term for street hawkers, have been under attack for a few years.Many places of worships including temple in India are known for their syncretic culture. 2/n
For centuries, shops outside the temples premises selling offerings, material required for rituals, crafts, crockery, utensils, toys have been owned and run by both Hindus and Muslims. They participate in fairs on festivals like Shivratri, Jamashthmi, Raksha Bandhan.

3/n
In UP, many such 'bisati walas' have been arrested under the draconian National Security Act in the last four years. This is not only a ploy to create sectarian divides within communities, erase co-existence of communities but also weaken the marginalised groups economically. 4/n
I covered several such cases for @thewire_in , one of them in Barabanki in 2019. Read and revisit here. 5/5

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10 Sep
#BadMediaPracticeAlert 😵‍💫
1. Last evening, I got a call from a Mirror Now reporter (you know who you are. Not naming you to give you a chance). She asked me about a conference I was to participate in. She asked me why my name is missing. I said I am no longer a part of it.
1/n
2. She asked me if I was being trolled. I said yes, me and my family like its been happening for many years. But there is more and I don't want to comment.
3. She asked me if I had formally withdrawn. I asked, "Is this conversation 'on the record'?"
4. She said, yes.
2/n
5. I responded, "I dont want to say anything...". She insisted and I repeated myself.
6. Today, they are playing that phone conversation on Times Now as part of their program on Hinduphobia. You can guess the narrative yourself.
3/n
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12 Jul
#Thread
This week, UP CM Yogi Adityanath unveiled a new population policy that aims to bring population growth to 2.1%. Such moves in the past have always penalised the marginalised and will do the same this time. (1/n)
According to a report by Centre for Health & Social Justice, “In 2002, in Lakhimpur Kheri, 5 Dalit farm labourers, aged 18 to 32 years, were taken to a hospital by their upper caste landlord on the pretext of being inoculated against malaria, given injections & knocked out." 2/n
"...They found out later that they were sterilised. Two of the five were not even married. The UP government in its zest to promote family planning offered gun licences to anyone who brought five cases. The farmer got the licence.” 3/n
Read 16 tweets
9 Oct 20
#Thread
Journalists who faced criminal cases & physical violence for reporting in Uttar Pradesh in the last year and a half. Remember these names and the things that what they were reporting on.

1. Ravindra Saxena for reporting mismanagement at quarantine centre in Sitapur
1/n
2. Vijay Vineet & Manish Mishra for reporting on hunger & starvation in the Musahar community in Varanasi.
3. Omar Rashid for reporting on anti-CAA protests in Lucknow.
4. Pawan Jaiswal for reporting on how students are given salt-roti as mid day meal in Mirzapur.
5. Santosh Jaiswal for reporting on children mopping floor in government schools in Azamgarh.
6. Baccha Gupta for reporting on how children were made to clean flooded police station in Varanasi.
Read 12 tweets
28 Jul 20
Four years since we published 'Operation BabyLift/Operation BethiUthao', an in-depth investigation on how three RSS affiliated organizations trafficked 31 Adivasi girls from 5 districts of Assam.
This 3-month-long investigation traced how the Sangh Parivar outfits took away these girls from the parents on the pretext of providing them free education and sent them to Punjab and Gujarat.
Once, they left, the parents could not only not get in touch with their daughters for over a year but had to also give away all documents and photos that could prove that they even had these daughters in the first place.
Read 10 tweets
23 Jun 20
#Thread
Just wanted to park it here that after 13 years of journalism and over a dozen international and Indian awards for my work, I still don't have a press card or any 'proof' that I am a journalist.

I have been working as an independent journalist for the last seven years.
Most of my reporting does not involve high profile people and tall buildings and so I have mostly managed without a press card.

But in Covid19 times, when there are restrictions & attacks on media has increased multifold, it is impossible to report from the ground without one.
All these years, I have resisted making a fake press card. I have also not used my own journalism connections to eke out a press card on principle. Since so many freelance journalists across the country dont have similar privileges.
Read 10 tweets
26 Feb 20
Close to 40 injured in the #delhiviolence at LNJP hospital under @ArvindKejriwal led Delhi govt. Some faced acid attacks, head injuries, eye injuries. One bleeding since 2am. Timely treatment not available. Relatives stopped from seeking help from journalists/activists.
Most from Mustafabad. Disappointing attitude from the doctors, staff, supervisors. In denial. Not even acknowledging that there are riot victims at the hospital. Standard bureaucratic responses. Everything that @AamAadmiParty campaign against during elections. #DelhiViolence
Marouf Ali, 32 from Bhajanpura was shot dead point blank on the forehead. His body is at LNJP. Will only be handed over 2mrw since the investigation officer Bhajanpura is unavailable to start post mortem procedure. He has 2 small children & ran an appliance store. #DelhiViolence
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