New York Times visual reporter and producer 🎥🗞️📸 • Previously in India and South Asia for @nytimes, @WSJ • 🏳️🌈 • Let’s talk karan@karandeepsingh.me
Nov 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Something magical is happening in Nepal: Its “trees are coming back.”
Whoa, what? I promise to explain (and hopefully entertain) in this thread 🌳
nytimes.com/2022/11/11/wor…
I spent a week reporting for @nytimes from southern Nepal, in areas that were once barren ravines. They were now dense forests, home to tigers, deers and pangolins.
जब मैंने पिछले साल भारत की टॉप एजेंसी के अंदर वैज्ञानिकों से बात करना शुरू किया, तो उनमें से कुछ ने कहा की वह देश के कोविड-१९ संकट को कम गंभीर दिखाने वाली सरकार के खिलाफ "कमज़ोर" महसूस करते थे।
आज, एक साल बाद, इन्हें आपके सामने पेश कर रहा हूँ।
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इस एक साल के दौरान, सरकार के अंदर और बाहर दो दर्जन से अधिक वैज्ञानिकों के साथ मेरी बातचीत में यह निराशा की भावना बार बार सामने आई।
"आप अपने काम पर सवाल उठाना शुरू करते हैं," अनूप अग्रवाल ने कहा, जो उस समय सरकारी एजेंसी के लिए काम कर रहे थे।
Sep 14, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
When I first started talking to scientists inside India's top agency last year, some of them described feeling "powerless" against a government portraying India's Covid-19 crisis as less severe.
And oh boy, it's come full circle a year later.
nytimes.com/2021/09/14/wor…
Over the course of a year, that crushing sense of despair surfaced in my conversations with over two dozen scientists inside and outside the government that were often emotional.
“You start questioning your work, you know,” said Anup Agarwal, a former agency physician.
