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Barkha Rani Jamke Barasti Hai. Emmy Nominated Reporter. Columnist @WashingtonPost. Editor, @themojostory. Argumentative! Yaaron Ka Yaar
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Oct 10, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Babies have been killed in their bedrooms say latest reports from Israel, some beheaded . If you’re still doing an “on the other hand” on #Hamas , its just morally reprehensible. Yes, raise your voice for innocent civilians everywhere , but without intellectualising barbarism. The report I quote from is here .
Oct 19, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
Special coverage @themojostory- #BilkisBano Rape convict Mithilesh ( released early with 10 others for “good behaviour” ) was charged with outraging modesty of a woman while out on parole in 2020. Sidebar: it’s satisfying to sometimes break a story ahead of the brilliant @LiveLawIndia which we would all be lost without otherwise
May 6, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
No matter which state I travel to, no matter on what national highway, no matter which week of the lockdown, I see scenes like this. Of despair. These are migrant workers from Bihar who were walking near Beawar when they suddenly saw a truck. They ran after it desperate. They are cement factory workers from Bihar who have been unable to get any concrete news on a train home. Here they sit, rest a few moments and share a kharbooza..
Aug 4, 2019 6 tweets 1 min read
Allusions to a Pakistan-China nexus factor among high level officials in Jammu and Kashmir to explain what is happening. With advisories in place well beyond typical areas of internal turmoil (kargil for eg), our focus was internal (35A), the theatre could well be external So while we assumed the additional troops are for possible turmoil that could follow Article 35A changes, the moment GOI advisory in a place like Kargil, it tells you to look at border/LoC etc and possibly understand the deployment in that framework of army & CRPF reassignment
Nov 20, 2018 13 tweets 7 min read
Watching how poorly @TwitterIndia has handled its meeting with a group of women journalists & more so, because it has been so dishonest about it, I am taking the unusual step of sharing some details about what happened from my perspective, at the meeting w/ @jack @vijaya We were invited to share our experience of abuse & trolling on @TwitterIndia & given few minutes each to make our points. I focused mine on organized bullying, rape threats etc. A Dalit activist spoke of how Caste Slurs were not part of Twitter's Report Abuse parameters