Raksha Kumar
@Raksha_Kumar
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Journalist @NPR @risj_oxford @nytimes @Guardian @BBC @the_Hindu Land & Forest Rights. @FulbrightPrgrm, @CheveningAA @IWMF @StanfordCDDRL Graduate-@columbiajourn
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Joined April 2010
If we don't speak up now, this will only continue - even seep into other aspects. Why wasn't any woman journalist present in the meeting? Did they request it? Did Indians 'self censor'?
What is even more ridiculous is that the Taliban FM is allowed to bring their abhorrent and illegal discrimination against women to India, as the government hosts the Taliban delegation with full official protocol. This isn't pragmatism, this is supplication.
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Worth noting that in the post COVID era, #SriLanka, #Bangladesh and #Nepal have had anti-corruption protests. The premiers of all three countries resigned after the protests. Lots happening in South Asia. Question is, where does India stand in all this?
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What is happening in #Nepal is not because they blocked social media, these are anti-corruption protests primarily.
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Here are 25 must read books on Jammu and Kashmir. Thank you for making the list. https://t.co/KylzDqL9Tn
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In an unprecedented move, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has ordered the forfeiture and ban of 25 books, alleging that they propagate secessionism, glorify terrorism, and pose a threat to...
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Listen to @Raksha_Kumar in conversation with @ieuditmisra and @Jayati1609 Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation 🎧🎧🎧
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Podcast Episode · Unequal India Decoded · 2025-07-18 · 29m
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Now that it has been a month, it is time for @bookingcom to get its act together.
Why should I use @bookingcom if I cannot speak to the customer care executive? Why pay booking fees if you cannot help when needed?
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Why should I use @bookingcom if I cannot speak to the customer care executive? Why pay booking fees if you cannot help when needed?
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A small announcement: Orient BlackSwan has just published my monograph on freedom of expression:
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Please help us spread the word about the 101Reporters Climate Journalism Fellowship Apply here - https://t.co/aCmrigSfOn
@JamwalNidhi @Raksha_Kumar @pirouetteworld
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On this episode of the Political Cycle, @emilyctamkin I spoke to @Raksha_Kumar about the many cash transfer schemes targeting women in India, and what she discovered while reporting on these programmes at the grassroots level: https://t.co/ZmGaHXLlDm
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If you are frustrated by ALL the roads in #Mumbai having been dug up or #Bangalore being flooded after just a couple of days of pre monsoon showers, you have no one to complain to. No municipal elections have been held. #justsaying
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BREAKING | National Human Rights Commission (@India_NHRC) takes suo motu cognizance of Professor Ali Mahmudabad's arrest. "...prima facie the human rights and liberty of the Professor have been violated" : it observes.
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Delhi High Court to shortly hear a defamation suit filed by Newslaundry Executive Editor Manisha Pande and eight other women journalists against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for referring to them as ‘prostitutes’ and their workplace as a ‘brothel.’
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जिस देश का राजा व्यापारी होता है वहाँ की प्रजा भिखारी होती है!
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Trump should have let India make the announcement. While successive US Presidents have 'mediated', it has been India's official stand that Kashmir issue is bilateral.
India contradicts Rubio, saying the cease-fire was worked out directly between India and Pakistan, and that there had been no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any location.
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So, Asim Munir has no control over non-state actors? Shahbaz Sharif has no control over the army? Imran Khan is in jail. So, who is actually in power in #Pakistan? Who is making decisions?
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We need an official briefing soon, to clear the air around #ceasefireviolations
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Lot will be said, written on this. Just want to emphasise two basic truths: 1. GoI had unconditional, absolute political support from across the spectrum. There was no political oneupmanship anywhere. 2. GoI was absolutely free to take whatever calls it needed to take.
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