Ismat Ara
@IsmatAraa
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Journalist | Bylines @frontline_India @TIME @AJEnglish @TheWire_in @Huffpost @TheQuint @Firstpost @BBChindi @Newslaundry @The_Hindu | [email protected]
New Delhi, India
Joined March 2014
The most heartbreaking picture I took today. This man is willing to walk 495 kms till Kanpur, his home, from Delhi because he has no way to sustain himself here with his 3 yr old daughter. "Wahan peene ko paani toh milega," he says. #TotalLockdown #CoronaOutbreak
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Curious, I asked the seller, “What’s this one called?” . He looked at me with the calm of a man who’s seen many idiots, and told me, “Mango, miss. It’s called Mango.”.
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Funny anecdote from 🥭 season: I had come across these absurdly large mangoes in Thailand (also a mango republic like India). Easily twice the size of my hand, maybe genetically modified, definitely created to mock all the other mangoes.
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अरे माई, शहर के बन्नी लोग त चम्मच से लिट्टी खाली, कौनो लज्जा ना बा!
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काला नमक डाल के पूरे दो मिनट, अच्छे से झमाड़ के जामुन नहीं खाया तो क्या खाया।
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RT @IsmatAraa: Kisan Credit Cards were meant for farming needs. Instead, they’re being used to pay for surgeries, school fees and even desp….
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RT @yusufpore: A worrying debt-trap with potentially disastrous consequence. #Farmers #Agriculture #India.
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RT @ramanmann1974: True, Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) are for input costs & other farm related expenses, but with dipping farm incomes and poor….
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RT @Devinder_Sharma: This is exactly what happens when farmers are denied the income he deserves. Farm credit only pushes them deeper into….
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RT @waglenikhil: ‘Breaks your dignity’: India’s farm credit lifeline turns into debt trap | Debt News | Al Jazeera
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"NO DOWRY means NO GROOM": KCC was supposed to grow wheat and sugarcane, not fund desperate dowry demands. But in rural India, money goes where the emergency is. Time for @FinMinIndia & @AgriGoI to fix the cracks. Credit meant for crops must not become crisis funds. @narendramodi.
How a credit lifeline for India’s farmers has turned into a debt trap
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RT @rubedahmad_rajp: How a credit lifeline for India’s farmers has turned into a debt trap via @AJEnglish.@IsmatAraa.
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Kisan Credit Cards were meant for farming needs. Instead, they’re being used to pay for surgeries, school fees and even desperate dowry demands. In rural India, easy farm credit is fast turning into a lifelong debt crisis. My story from the ground: .
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Can't wrap my head around this, every single time I travel, which is a lot of times, I cannot help but feel this.
It’s unacceptable that women in India still have to roam the streets for hours just to find a public restroom. A country aiming for global economic stature.
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It’s unacceptable that women in India still have to roam the streets for hours just to find a public restroom. A country aiming for global economic stature.
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There are exactly two times a year when the Delhi air tries to kill you. Once with the choking winter pollution, and again with the brutal summer heat. Survival really is a full-time job here. 😭😭😭😭😭 . #Delhi.
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The end of May in Delhi. June creeping in. What do people even do in a city where its heat feels like punishment for ambition? You step out and the air itself wants you dead. So you wander into places with ACs. Or you stay in, scroll, sulk, and think about leaving, then don’t.
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RT @iamrana: our world is safe in hands of generation next- Ismat & Anas. sitāroñ se aage jahāñ aur bhī haiñ.@Vakeel_Sb @IsmatAraa
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