Q. What stopped Indian news organisations from doing the story on Ankhi Das and Facebook that WSJ pulled off?
Clue: Follow the money Ankhi and her team have been around screwing with Indian democracy and politics since 2010. When we unraveled some of these threads in 2018, we were called names. Glad that someone unraveled the spool further.
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Hours before the three-week nationwide lockdown, the Prime Minister personally asked owners and editors of print media to publish positive stories about COVID-19. Those present included representatives from The Indian Express, The Hindu and Punjab Kesari.
caravanmagazine.in/media/hours-be… "The Indian Express gave more space to reports on the deaths of the India’s poor due to the lockdown, the coverage hardly questioned the central government’s poor planning preceding Modi’s announcement."

Protests began across India beginning 13 Dec 2019. Human rights abuse and state-sponsored violence began immediately. Large scale targeted violence and abuse of law and order machinery began in Delhi 23 Feb 2020. Q. Which senior editor did you see at protest sites other than Shaheen Bag and on the streets of Delhi when violence began?

Spent the day with @furquansid at the Babu Nagar camp and later at the Mustafabad camp. Babu Nagar is a working class, area in Muslim dominated Mustafabad. People from neighbouring Shiv Vihar, which saw an obliteration of Muslim households, businesses and mosques, began arriving at the Quaba Masjid in Babu Nagar beginning Wednesday, 26 February 2020.

The biggest story of the violence in Delhi is internal migration of Muslims within the city. There are relief camps with thousands of displaced people in different parts of north east Delhi. The scariest thing is we have reached a point where there is no return to normal. An entire population was provoked into rebellion and then violence with the aim of economically destroying the population was unleashed. There is no returning to normal from here.

Walked down Karawal Nagar Main Road with @furquansid and @AradhnaW yesterday. The road separates the neighbourhoods of Khazoori Khas on one side from Chand Bag, Moonga Nagar and Chandu Nagar on the other side. This is a working class, mixed population neighbourhood. Khazoori Khas is dominated by Hindus, has a minority Muslim population. Chand Bag is one of the neighbourhood where violence began on Monday. The protest site and a petrol pump opposite were burnt down. A mob attacked the protestors. Many protestors received bullet injuries.

I met a 22-year-old at a camp in Chamanpark yesterday. He has an appointment letter from @HDFC_Bank as a trainee. He was supposed to join today. 'I can't join because of the riots. My career is over,' he said. 'They hung up on me when I told them of the situation here' "Rioters had surrounded the entire area. They were climbing into homes. I don't know how I saved my sisters and brought them here. They are spreading terror under the chants of Jai Sri Ram. Ram was a patient man unlike them. They are terrorizing us...

This is what we saw: the road parallel to the drain is littered with bricks and stones used for rioting. Multiple bridges across the drain connect the two neighbourhoods. All but one manned by personnel of Central Reserve Police are blocked by residents of Shiv Vihar Shops along the road parallel to the drain in Chamanpark were burnt to char. A weighbridge and a paint shop were still smouldering when we arrived today.

25 February 2020, day one of riots in Delhi

https://twitter.com/cyrilsam/status/1232124207254790144

26 February 2020, day two of riots in Delhi

https://twitter.com/cyrilsam/status/1232570153872842752