Barkha Kumari
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Journalist @DeccanHerald | DM news tips on Bengaluru | @inoldnews Fellow | Tweets personal l Guilty pleasures: Reading comments & watching background dancers 🤫
Bengaluru, India
Joined January 2010
#streetfood It's taken me 2 months of research and I still don't have an answer: Which plant/tree it comes from? Read and share. Thank you @atlasobscura for the opportunity. #indianfood #agave #botany
#foodorigin #foodstory
https://t.co/UAPsja9BpH
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Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity.
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🏍️ 🏔️ Need year-end dose of motivation? Meet five #women, 31 to 77 YO, who completed a 4,000 km #Himalayan #expedition in 14 days, reaching near the China border in Sikkim. https://t.co/MSyJbDx85Z via @deccanherald
#TravelVibes #bikers #Bengaluru #Kerala #Hyderabad #India
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Women Riders' Adventure: Discover how four women bikers conquered the Himalayas, breaking gender norms and embracing freedom on two wheels.
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#IndiGoCrisis #Bengaluru Are you switching to bus, train or car for your upcoming trips? Or have you decided to holiday within Karnataka instead of flying to far off destinations? #Bangalore #indigochaos #Indigo
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#nomads "Everything was in ours in one sense. We could go, live, perform anywhere. At the same time, we don't own anything, have no education.' A college professor shares his interactions with nomadic, semi nomadic communities of #Karnataka, near #Mysuru. https://t.co/2WnCCejCsy
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Nomadic Challenges: Facing displacement, Dombi Dasas honour their cultural roots while confronting modern challenges; loss of relevance due to cinema and TV, facing systemic barriers to education and...
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⚽ In a country fixated on #cricket, #football runs in its veins just as much. A sports writer uncovers 10 football subcultures of India, on grounds of #Bengaluru to beaches of #Goa, plains of #Punjab and hills of #Mizoram. https://t.co/QkV7nABg1G
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From Bengaluru’s East Ground to Kerala’s Sevens, Mizoram’s hilltop stadiums, and Kolkata’s khep culture, India’s grassroots football nurtures identity, history, and community. An in-depth exploration...
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Why were some people, far removed from #NewYork, rooting for @ZohranKMamdani mayoral bid online? Cos he's a social media magnet? A South Asian? A breather to dirty politics? Do they believe he will deliver? #Bangalore #Bengaluru #politics #NYmayor
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Bengalureans Support: Discover why Bengaluru is celebrating Zohran Mamdani's historic win as New York City's first Muslim mayor with progressive ideals.
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#EXILE Decades after fleeing their home in #Tibet, some families haven’t opened the bags they carried; holding on to hope of return. Puja Gopal traces their life in exile in #Karnataka, and dilemmas of a generation born far from #home. #China #refugees
https://t.co/H5EkyjfBlD
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Tibetan Community: The struggle and perseverance of Tibetans in Karnataka as they balance cultural preservation with integration into Indian society.
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I watched #homebound. Kudos to team. But it pains to see the film not acknowledge Mohammad Saiyub and Amrit Kumar, friends from Devari, on which the film is based. Was it just the theatre I went to? Was it a conscious choice? Can u explain @DharmaMovies? #bangalore #bengaluru
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How tone deaf!
#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same - India wins! Congrats to our cricketers.
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What's your #potholestory? Heard a random guy on Church Street, talking to his friend: There's a pothole near my house. It can fit a big car. Even 20 of my size can fit in. #Bengaluru #Bangalore
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Wondered when #maps of #India and subcontinent were created? Over 2 centuries ago, with trigonometry and much adventure. It also determined #MtEverest as the world's tallest mountain. Read about #GreatTrigonometricalSurvey. Efforts began in #Bengaluru. https://t.co/JJJQBcySBP
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Heritage Feature: Discover how trigonometry and adventure from Bengaluru led to charting India and measuring the world’s tallest mountain.
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🚆 🚂 We all have fond #train memories. Behind every such journey is a loco pilot, steering the train through infinity with hawk-life focus. Arjun Raghunath goes behind the scenes of a #locopilot's life. https://t.co/FWO46J41p2
#indianrailways #kerala #tamilnadu #karnataka
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Inside Railways: From saving lives to scenic routes, loco pilot Anver Hussain shares 28 years of experiences riding India’s busiest trains.
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🐣🐤 What does it take to bring a #bird species back from the brink? @hubalipavan reports about the efforts in #Rajasthan to revive the #greatIndianbustard — Asia’s heaviest flying bird, with about 140 left in #India. #conservation #wildlife #science
https://t.co/IzvY0l6xcP
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Once thriving in 11 Indian states, the heavy flying bird is now down to about 140. DH journalist Pavan Kumar H meets the team that is trying to save the species
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Could bodies really have been buried in secret in Dharmasthala? And why are Karnataka’s biggest media houses looking away? @PoojaPrasanna4 and I spoke to families, lawyers and activists 📺 Kannada closed captions available https://t.co/8LKEu9mcOo
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@makemytripcare My nieces and nephew waited months to see Mysore’s palaces. Thanks to room denial and unhygienic amenities, they had to leave. It was a Saturday, no big suites were available last minute. Do you even vet the hotel partners you onboard?
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Must read. @zulfikarmajid of @DeccanHerald writes about what it takes to report from #Kashmir, a region marked by decades of political unrest, and where threats of interrogation, bullets and exile abound. https://t.co/SHKnkAnnsX
#pressfreeedom #Media #JournalismMatters #news
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Media Under Fire: A first-hand account of the risks, threats, and emotional toll faced by journalists reporting from conflict-hit Kashmir.
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What are the rhythms of life along LoC, what anxieties residents live with, what does it take to start all over after an escalation? A researcher visited #LoC during and after #OperationSindoor to find out. #JammuAndKashmir #indiapakistanconflict
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India-Pakistan Border: Amid fragile ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir, locals call for individual bunkers and better protection from recurring cross-border shelling.
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Wonder what the life in foreign service looks like? A diplomat tells Reya Mehrotra about his eventful life, where he witnessed assassinations and traced fugitives. https://t.co/615VilFCnc via @deccanherald
#diplomat #foreignservice #ambassador #bangalore #Bengaluru
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Life in Retrospect: Pascal Alan Nazareth shares vivid stories from his 35-year diplomatic journey, blending personal milestones with historic moments.
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As US sharpens its pitch for social media vetting for student #visas, students have started deleting past posts and likes - anything related to #politics, #religion, #USA affairs. https://t.co/EsX9iv5cof
#bengaluru #bangalore
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Visa Readiness: Indian students remove political posts, unfollow activists as US mandates public social media profiles for F, M, J visa applicants.
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📚 Banu Mushtaq's Booker Prize win has brought focus to the critical role #literary agents play. Anish Chandy offers an insider view of the profession that bridges talent and publishers. #publishing #books #literaryagents #Authors
https://t.co/oXsNyx6My3
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In her Booker Prize acceptance speech, Banu Mushtaq thanked her literary agent for believing in her story. Anish Chandy offers an insider view of a profession that bridges talent and publishing
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