Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳
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Journalist, Writer, Teacher. Forever student. @AshokaUniv. proud @NDTV alum. winner @RedInk_Awards/ @RNGawards/@e4mtweets, fellow @newindiafndtion. Views Mine!
New Delhi, India
Joined May 2009
#SwachhHawaAbhiyan - Peek TV exposes ‘data manipulation’ attempts by the Delhi Government at air quality monitoring stations. In Jahangirpuri, Peek TV found that the Delhi Govt’s anti-smog water-tankers are constantly watering only the immediate vicinity of the monitor.
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Enough AQI monitors exist in the market today to expose the manipulation of pollution data by the govt. The figures have been well above 350-400 for a few days now. What a joke, really. And it’s on us, the public, in case anyone is confused.
#WATCH | Delhi: India Gate seems to disappear behind a thin layer of haze this evening. AQI (Air Quality Index) around the area is in 'Poor' category, at 295, as per CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board).
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"America Part One" is a graphic novel that delves into American history from the Mayflower landing in 1620 to the Battle of Yorktown. It provides a visual narrative of key events and figures, offering a unique way to engage with the nation's past.
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Important: So sixth instalment of Rs 10,000 was given to approx 10 lakh women in Bihar yesterday. Another instalment to be given on 7th November 4 days before polling. Since Model Code in place, 3 cash instalments handed out already. Isn’t this VOTE KHARIDI? EC ‘sources’ call it
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"Modi’s response to this crisis is to avoid rooms where Trump might be present. This strategy of evasion cannot hold. ...India needs its prime minister to show up, to defend its interests, to negotiate from whatever strength remains, and to stop pretending..." My piece @ttindia
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.@authoramish Amish, there is a difference between speaking a language and investigating its history, politics, linguistics, etc., in a scholarly way. You are writing in English. There is voluminous scholarship about its history, formation, philology, and so on. There are
I have no views on this scholar Francesca Orsini. Had never heard of her. But those of us from a rooted background, who speak Hindi at home, read Hindi books as well, can only roll our eyes at this rather bizarre claim that 'few have shaped our understanding' of Hindi literary
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Abacus Global Management $ABL Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results Third Quarter 2025 Highlights: • Total revenue for the third quarter grew 124% to $63.0 million, compared to $28.1 million in the prior-year period. The increase was driven by continued growth in Abacus’ Life
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. @yadavtejashwi का पहला चुनावी Exclusive @TheRedMike YT पर आ चुका है मुस्लिम Deputy CM के लिए क्यों नहीं किया ऐलान? क्या भविष्यवाणी की लिख कर? क्या टूटने वाला था कांग्रेस से गठबंधन? आमने-सामने कई उम्मीदवार चाचा नीतीश के साथ आने पर कोई बात हुई? ज़रूर देखिए
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Whether pre-existing pollution is because of stubble burning, or aliens landing. To know something is already hazardous and then to deliberately make it worse for yourself and your family. It’s inexplicable. Young kids, old parents, their lungs won’t ask whose fault it is.
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We have become a joke. Cities are falling apart, so are the Himalayas. Not one government body is doing what it is supposed to do. No quality standards, no answerability. Just reel-hungry union ministers seeking mileage even out of a Sanganeri blanket.
Best Air Quality Governance Strategy: - Have fewer air quality monitors; - Have the monitors in green areas or less polluting areas; - Change the monitoring standard/scale and don’t let the monitors read beyond 500; - Turn off the monitors when pollution peaks. - RESULT: No Air
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The visceral hostility of the NDA government to scholars and scholarship is something to behold. A government ideologically committed to Hindi has banned Francesca Orsini. You can't make this up.
Francesca Orsini's scholarship has greatly enriched Hindi literary studies and history of the book in India. She is a renowned scholar published worldwide in English and in Hindi. She has just been denied entry into India, with no reason given.
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Congratulations. New Delhi the most polluted capital in the world for YEARS now. Beijing, which was once most polluted, managed to control its pollution problem years ago. They did it for sake of citizens health, and the international shame it brought.
Air quality in India's capital New Delhi deteriorated to hazardous levels with readings the highest in the world, according to Swiss group IQAir, partly due to the use of firecrackers during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights
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Pollution IS NOT a seasonal issue. It’s a system issue. A total failure of Modi government — it had to be fixed at the Centre level taking all states together. We’ve been tracking this issue through the year and didn’t just wake up on Diwali like most. https://t.co/WIzdCdrwXa
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This 8-minute speech by Kairana MP Iqra Hasan is a must watch. A woman politician addressing an all-male panchayat of her supporters and critics in west UP. https://t.co/sIGlnjgU3D
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Taliban’s suppression of Afghan women & girls through use of State power is the fundamentalist misogynist insecurity of men. On foreign soil, they stand exposed by strong, articulate women who prove the power of sisterhood in bringing men like this down a notch or 2. Bravo!
I asked #Muttaqi as to why are Afghan young girls and women barred from schools and education institutes when other islamic nations and ideologies including Iran, Syria, Saudi or Deoband educate their girls. And also if he regrets the brutal killing of journalist #DanishSiddiqui
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I asked #Muttaqi as to why are Afghan young girls and women barred from schools and education institutes when other islamic nations and ideologies including Iran, Syria, Saudi or Deoband educate their girls. And also if he regrets the brutal killing of journalist #DanishSiddiqui
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This is the sisterhood between Indian women and Afghan women- every country in the world should only send women to deal with the taliban.
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Please note @Smita_Sharma that while India was hosting the Taliban, Afghan civil society was hosting the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afg @AfgPpt, 8-10 Oct. Here prosecution & witness testimonies laid out how Taliban acts constitute gender based persecution under Rome statute!
Full Chat- Youtube-Smita Sharma Journalist (link in thread)Yes #Muttaqi did finally take a volley of hard hitting questions on Afghan women's right to education (Qs from women journalists too). But the answers were far from the truth. He lied mostly about equal freedom for all
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So so proud of the women journalists who decided to push back against the anti women Taliban and in the process, not just won an important fight but showed a mirror to the government. @Smita_Sharma @suhasinih @NayanimaBasu and all the other women who cover the foreign beat in
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1485 days since teenage girls have been banned from school in Afghanistan. In Delhi, Indian female journalists stood in solidarity with Afghan women & girls, asking the Taliban’s Amir Khan Muttaqi why the group continues to ban education for women & girls #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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Also kudos to male colleagues who joined the protest against discrimination, requested us today to sit in front row of press conference- although we compete for stories, no conflict over need for #MediaSolidarity and #Zerodiscrimination
A moment of silence for those who defended this action of the Taliban citing the venue , the embassy. Kudos to the women journalists who stood up and forced a rethink. @Smita_Sharma @suhasinih @tallstories @NayanimaBasu @p_vineeta
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Link to chat with @suhasinih and @NayanimaBasu on #Muttaqi press conference https://t.co/2SkBCGKJHj
#Afghanistan #Afghan #AfghanWomen #Taliban #DanishSiddiqui
Full Chat- Youtube-Smita Sharma Journalist (link in thread)Yes #Muttaqi did finally take a volley of hard hitting questions on Afghan women's right to education (Qs from women journalists too). But the answers were far from the truth. He lied mostly about equal freedom for all
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