Executive Editor, @scroll_in.
Could not choose between art, academia and activism. Became a journalist.
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Mar 16 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Three news organisations and several independent journalists have come together to sift through the electoral bond data.
Here's a #thread of some of the stories we have done as part of #ProjectElectoralBond
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The first story published within two hours of the data release on March 14 mapped out the top buyers of the bonds
Do you know what’s the most common cancer in India?
Breast cancer.
There is no conversation about this. Not even among women.
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Part of the reason is the stigma associated with breast cancer.
A surgical oncologist told @Johanna_Deeksha that when he asks survivors to talk about their experience, they refuse. "It is the same with some celebrity patients. Nobody wants to be associated with breast cancer.”
Nov 6, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Too much noise, too little light on India's air pollution crisis.
My colleague @ikukreti did a deep dive to understand why India isn't making any headway with cleaning up its air. Here's what he found.
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Ishan travelled with a low-cost air quality monitor from Ludhiana to Patna in mid-October. He found pollution levels were consistently high well before the winter had set in.
Toxic air is not a seasonal problem.
Aug 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Very excited to announce the launch of #CommonGround, our new in-depth reporting project.
It is inspired by our belief that there’s more to our shared life than the divisive politics that characterises our times.
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Every Wednesday, we hope to bring you a compelling story from the ground on our neglected commons: areas like education, health, work, gender, land, climate.
Aug 3, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
500 days since 250 million children in India went to school.
Everything is opening. Why aren't schools?
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The impact of school closures on children has been extensively documented.
Survey after survey has found learning has come to a stop.
Child health is adversely impacted.
Worse, child labour and child marriage have gone up.
Jun 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
We're finally getting closer to understanding the true burden of the pandemic in India through all cause mortality data accessed doggedly by journalists.
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Excess deaths were 42 times the official Covid death count in Madhya Pradesh in 2021
All cause deaths were nearly five times more than normal in May, coinciding with the second wave, @Rukmini reported
Beyond the tragedies already being reported from Delhi of hospitals running out of oxygen and patients dying, looms a much bigger oxygen crisis in India.
#Thread
India produces 7,200 metric tonnes of oxygen daily.
On April 12, the health ministry said the country was consuming 54% of its daily oxygen production – 3,842 metric tonnes – for medical purposes.
India had 12,64,000 active cases at the time.
Apr 12, 2021 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
We are in the middle of a ferocious second wave of Covid in India.
It seems pointless to do postmortems.
But one thing that has bothered me enormously over the last three months is the lack of attention to the new coronavirus variants.
#Thread
Around New Year, there was fleeting attention in India to the new variant rampaging through UK.
Qs were asked about whether government was doing anything to prevent UK variant from entering India.
No one seemed to dwell on the thought that new *Indian* variants could crop up.
Feb 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Support independent media in India.
Less than a handful of news outlets have consistently reported on the weaknesses in the Bhima Koregaon case.
We were writing about the fabrications in the police's case as early as September 2018
Please read these stories to see what people like you went through in Delhi this summer
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“Every time the bell rang – and that was rare at that time because nobody would really come to the house – my friend would be like they [the police] have come for you... There were days I couldn’t go to bed because of my anxiety.”
A silent crackdown has been sweeping through India's capital.
Such is the fear that few are willing to speak about it.
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As you know, the Delhi Police has built a case blaming the communal violence that took place in February on a conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors to overthrow the Modi government.
The case has been criticised as a witchhunt against the protestors.
Aug 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It is one year since the NRC was published in Assam.
Nearly two million people were left quasi-stateless.
#Thread
One year later, those left out of the Assam NRC are yet to receive their rejection orders, needed to appeal against their exclusion in foreigners tribunals.
India is holding its first commercial coal mine auctions bang in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Coal mining states stand to lose. Here's how.
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Loss of forest cover, communities face displacement, yet the coal mining states haven't been consulted – as Jharkhand has stated in a suit filed in the Supreme Court.
The coal mining states stand to lose even in terms of revenues.
Jul 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Delhi Police wants you to believe that the February violence was the outcome of a sinister conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors.
But where is the evidence?
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This week, Delhi Police filed an affidavit in court alleging CAA protestors were willing to “execute a secessionist movement in the country by propagating an armed rebellion against the lawfully constituted government of the day”.
Jul 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You've been reading about the purported WhatsApp conversations of Delhi rioters.
We took a deep dive.
#Thread
If accurate, the transcripts submitted by the police in court provide a vivid, chilling account of the way communal violence unfolded in Delhi in February.
Very strong statement by three medical professionals associations on the Indian government's mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic.
#Thread
The signatories are members of the Indian Public Health Association, the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine and the Indian Association of Epidemiologists.
They include former advisors to the health ministry, current and former professors at AIIMS, BHU, PGIMER.
May 13, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Modi government claims India has enough PPE – personal protective equipment.
Can the central government produce an order where it clearly told states (well before public outrage broke out) that the Railways ministry would pick up 85% of the cost of migrants’ tickets?
This is what the guidelines issued by Indian Railways on May 2 said.
“The local state government shall handover the tickets to the passengers cleared by them and collect the ticket fare and hand over the total amount to Railways.”
Apr 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What the PM should tell us tomorrow:
*Can migrants who are stuck go home?
*If not, what’s the plan to supply food/essentials?
*Will states universalise food rations?
*Will Centre release excess stocks lying in godowns?
*Will Centre give money to states?
*Will some work resume?
The PM should also tell us what did the government do in 21 days of lockdown to
*strengthen healthcare capacity
*increase the supply of PPEs
*procure and make testing kits, both RT-PCR and antibody
*add capacity for ventilators, oxygen supply, ICUs
*hire and train staff
