Four Reuters photographers win Pulitzer for images of India’s #COVID19 crisis
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui were named winners of the most prestigious award in journalism. #PulitzerPrize
#PulitzerPrize | #DanishSiddiqui, 38, was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces & Taliban fighters near a border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan on July 16. He was covering the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan for Reuters.
The #PulitzerPrize, the most prestigious award in journalism, was awarded to the photographers for their images of the crisis that “balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”. scroll.in/a/1023584
“To have Danish’s incredible work honoured in this way is a tribute to the enduring mark he has left on the world of photojournalism,” Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni said scroll.in/a/1023584
#PulitzerPrize | The body of a person, who died from #COVID19, lies on a funeral pyre during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 1, 2021. Photo by: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
#PulitzerPrize | A man sits next to his wife, who was suffering from a high fever, as she intravenously receives rehydration fluid at a makeshift clinic in Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh on May 22, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023584
A man waves a handkerchief from the back seat of his vehicle at his mother as she receives oxygen in the parking lot of a Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on April 24, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023588
A woman presses the chest of her father, who was having difficulty breathing, after he felt unconscious while receiving oxygen support at a Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on April 30, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023588
Photo by: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
The New York Times won three #PulitzerPrizes and was named as a finalist in five other categories also.
The journalists of #Ukraine were also awarded a special citation for their coverage of the #Russian invasion.
Reuters photographers Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui won the #PulitzerPrize2022 for feature photography on Monday for their coverage of the coronavirus crisis in India.
The jury said that the prize was awarded to the four photographers for their images of the crisis that “balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”.
Economist Aravind Panagariya's dismissal of Rajasthan's #righttohealth Act as an example of “irresponsible populism” is shocking in a country where the financial burden of healthcare continues to push over 55 million people into poverty every year. scroll.in/article/1047330
Panagariya also sees pensions and the right of the retired and elderly to a dignified life as a “populist” move in the context of the debate over a new pension scheme launched by the Bharatiya Janata Party government. scroll.in/article/1047330
For Panagariya, any government spending that violates the fictive boundary of fiscal prudence is sacrilege and thereby “irresponsible populism”. One of the pillars of this thinking is that such “dole outs” are necessarily inflationary. scroll.in/article/1047330
#ScrollInvestigation: The Modi government greenlighted the clearance of about 3,000 acres of forest land in Chhattisgarh for the expansion of a coal mine operated by the Adani Group...
...even though a government-funded study found millions of tonnes of coal lying unextracted at the bottom of the existing mine.
Allocated by the coal ministry to Rajasthan’s state electricity company, the Parsa East and Kanta Basan mine is operated by the Adani Group, which also holds 74% stake in its profits.
THREAD | The assault of an activist in Sikkim’s Singtam town on April 9 has once again drawn attention to the concerns over the redefinition of who counts as “Sikkimese” for tax purposes in the Finance Act, 2023. scroll.in/article/104738…
The act allows Indians who settled in Sikkim before 1975, when the Himalayan kingdom was merged with India, to avail of tax exemptions that ethnic Sikkimese groups have been granted.
The bill was necessitated by a Supreme Court verdict in January.
Critics allege that the law, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on March 24, is an attack on the state’s special rights and the identity of native groups. scroll.in/article/1047381
"What has happened is a very scary dilution” of Article 371, Joint Action Council member Amrit Sharma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Sunday forced to replace a ceremonial banner it had erected in #Karnataka’s Mandya district to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi. scroll.in/article/104574…
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The Opposition leaders pointed out that the banner featured two purported 18th-century Vokkaliga chieftains who the saffron party claims had killed Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan.
According to the historical record, the Mysuru king was killed by the British.
This attempt by the BJP to showcase the supposed Vokkaliga chieftains Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda, is being seen as part of the organisation’s new electoral push to appeal to specific castes groups - Vokkaliga voters.
THREAD: In early 2019, when Irshad Arif Irshad and his three friends decided to start an e-commerce business in Kashmir, they pooled their own savings instead of taking a loan.
“We did not take any bank loan because we know the risk of failure of businesses here,” Irshad said.
They opened a web portal called Kashmir Origin, a local platform that sells curated Kashmiri handicrafts, organic products and fabrics.
All four co-founders had worked for e-commerce companies in #Kashmir as well as other parts of India, and brought their expertise to the table.
But soon, their internet-driven business faced an unprecedented crisis.
In August 2019, J-K was put under severe restrictions and a never-seen-before internet blockade.
“We had no idea about the status of our orders. We thought the business was over," Arif said.
A group of 87 former civil servants urged President Droupadi Murmu to advise the Central government to immediately stop the Rs 72,000-crore mega project on Great Nicobar Island.
The mega project and the proposal to increase the island’s population amounts to “a planned destruction of the Adivasi culture and lives”, said Sharad Lele, a former member of the environment ministry and tribal ministry committee on the Forest Rights Act. scroll.in/article/103826…
“This proposal for compensatory afforestation in Haryana in lieu of this ecological and social loss in the Islands is devoid of any logic,” said Tushar Dash, a forest rights researcher. scroll.in/article/104166…