Nikita Saxena
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Azam Khan—who told CBI spl court in Nov 2018 that Sohrabuddin Sheikh said he killed Haren Pandya on Vanzarara’s orders—moved to Ajmer. In earlier petition, his wife alleged police officials threatened him by saying he would be “killed en route.”
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At Shaheen Bagh, a very-attired-for-Bombay
@kunalkamra88
tells Amit Shah, hum aapko chronology samjhayenge—pehla aaya haren pandya, phir sohrabuddin, or phir Judge Loya.
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Prashant Kishor is not a liberal hero. He's part of how we got here.
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First, you had a problem with Muslims asserting their identity in protests necessitated by a law that targeted them for their identity. Then, you fault them for defending themselves against an assault on their lives. At what point will you admit to resenting their existence?
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"Republic TV’s ratings were astounding not only for the numbers themselves...in the 1st month of its launch, for example, about half of the channel’s entire traffic came from Chennai—although the channel did no major stories on Tamil Nadu." From Jan 2018:
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Rohit Sardana's legacy speaks for itself. It will be litigated by those he sought to de-humanise, vilify and persecute. This is not a celebration of his demise. It is an acknowledgment of the sordid fact that tarnished records cannot be wiped clean posthumously.
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Being from Air Force background, I just want to say: lol.
The real
#GunjanSaxena
must come out and clarify whether the gender discrimination shown in movie is for real? Being from Army background I can never imagine defence officers behaving like goons. Officer or not, women are always get their due respect in forces.
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The breathless coverage of the foundation ceremony for a temple as though it is a state function—with no mention of its bloodied, communal history—tells you everything you need to know about the Indian media and democracy today.
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My memories of an Air Force Station don’t include celebration when there was a sign of conflict. All I remember is sirens, everywhere, the disappearance of fathers for weeks, months on end, and the gloom of uncertainty. Hard to feel triumphant at the possibility of one now.
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It is impossible to overstate the cruelty of a state in which a woman imprisoned for protesting unjust laws has lost her father—to a pandemic that wreaked havoc because this country’s leaders know nothing beyond their own greed for power.
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A woman spoke out against one of the most powerful men in this country. She sought due process. She filed a sworn affidavit. With thirty-seven annexures. She provided video recordings. What did the highest court of this land do? What did we do?
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A reminder that this courageous man advocating an escalation in which he will have no discernible stakes is a sexual harassarer.
Clear act of escalation by Pakistan. Targeting military installation is an act of war. IAF Bison pilot engaged & brought down Pak jet. Is PoW. India will respond. Escalation is by Pak. Yudhay Krit Nischay!!! Defeat Pak state terror. There are no low costs options.
#IndiaFirst
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Public universities, including engineering colleges, are organising and mobilising across the country. Where is the solidarity from private universities that have built their entire brand on being a bastion for the liberal arts?
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To be in India is right now is to be in constant state of bereavement. This implosion was years in the making. But only this government could have rendered it with such ruthlessness to a people it has systematically battered since 2014.
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Fellow journalists, "clashes" works only when it is a battle between forces of equal power. The state's clampdown of protesting students is not it.
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Two protests in two different parts of the city between yesterday and today, yet only one faced a brutal police crackdown. Even the responses of this government are shackled by its bigotry.
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I have a journalism joke but it’s behind a paywall.
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Women have been going about their daily jobs, grappling with anxiety and guilt, collating complaints, responding to criticism, re-assessing processes in their own organisations, and yet, still finding time, to check on each other.
Men can't even bother to say,"hope you're okay."
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Can't let The Caravan take credit for this one. I did all this thinking all on my own, would you believe it.
@nikita1712
@RaisinaSeries
This is what the Haters at
@thecaravanindia
do to even a former
@IAF_MCC
official's daughter !
And a former Ambassador's IDIOT Aaptard son RTs it !
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Seeing this being gleefully shared on my timeline. It is tempting to seek comfort in mainstream anchors and channels sensing and responding to the market realities of public sentiment; a reminder of the role Anjana Om Kashyap and her employer, Aaj Tak played in getting us here:
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Remembering this poem by Otto Rene Castillo today:
One day
the apolitical
intellectuals
of my country
will be interrogated
by the simplest
of our people.
They will be asked
what they did
when their nation died out
slowly,
like a sweet fire
small and alone.
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Between the accounts of
@Kisanektamorcha
,
@Tractor2twitr
and
@thecaravanindia
, among others, great day for
@TwitterIndia
and free speech. And that is saying something, given their track record over the past few years.
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Danish Siddiqui's work was unflinchingly brave. It reflected the kind of courage and story-telling any journalist would aspire to. So many of the images he made came to define the multiple tragedies unfolding within the Indian democracy. A profound and devastating loss.
Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist, was killed in clashes in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar, sources confirmed.
The Indian journalist was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days.
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In the four years that I have spent at The Caravan, I can recollect very little that would compare to the experience of being a part of this month's issue. Inspired by, and indebted to the powerful women who spoke to us for each of these stories. Please pick up a copy.
A special issue of The Caravan: How Vijay Nair's Only Much Louder failed the women in its ranks; Eleven women speak out against Jatin Das's sexual misconduct; A journalist accuses primetime anchor Gaurav Sawant of sexual assault.
#MeTooIndia
#TimesUp
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As women in journalism start talking, there are going to be no heroes left. And my god, am I glad that this citadel may finally begin to fall.
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Along with his lawyers, Tejpal owes a debt of gratitude to the bulwark of supposed liberals—the Manu Josephs, the Palash Krishna Mehrotras—who left no stone unturned in defending the indefensible, in burnishing the myths of a man's genius over a woman's safety.
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When I started out as a cub reporter, a senior colleague once shouted me down during an argument at a social gathering in a pub. "I am not used to women speaking to me this way, you better keep quiet before I lose my cool." I was shaking when I got back home. (1/n)
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My mind is not blown easily, but this gushing eulogy has managed to make it explode. It claims: "It was a measure of Pachauri’s success that no major dispute ever surfaced over the contents of the Fourth and Fifth Assessment reports. " Incorrect.
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The unruly public university’s resilience, in the face of all the lofty institutions this government has tamed with ruthless efficiency, is truly a thing of wonder.
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Indian journalism is a cesspool of these stories. And it thrives in an environment where jobs are few, positions of power acquired through networks of influence, and vulnerability frowned down upon. Thank you
@AnooBhu
,
@TheRestlessQuil
@priyakamal
for signalling a change.
#Metoo
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Please let me know of another way to frame a law that excludes only religious community from opting for citizenship. I’ll take my ignorance over your moral mendacity.
CAA does not target anyone for their identity. How ignorant can you be?
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"Justice."
I have sent a defamation notice to Caravan, Ms Nikita Saxena and Ms Vidya Krishnan through my lawyers. Will seek justice.
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A reminder to everyone currently fawning over Justice Chandrachud. This is the same judge who authored the judgement that denied an *investigation* into a fellow judge's death because—among other oddities—the statements of four judges had a "ring of truth to them."
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I have a feeling no person in Shaheen Bagh last night enjoyed
@tmkrishna
's performance as much as this tiny tot, who fell not once but twice while feverishly swirling to the music, did.
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Now that the
@thecaravanindia
account is back, perhaps a sleeping Akshay Kumar could tempt you into reading the cover story on Akshay Kumar's role as Hindutva's poster-boy.
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In Tamil Nadu, Republic TV partnered with Polimer Media for distribution. In 2013, TAM had issued a show-cause notice to Polimer's CEO PV Kalyanasundaram, because it "had reasons to believe” that he "attempted to influence the viewers by offering them monetary benefits...”
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The sitting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India has been accused of sexual harassment by a former employee of the institution. Atul Dev and I report on her chilling experience
Supreme Charge: "I have been victimised for resisting and refusing the unwanted sexual advances of the CJI" Ranjan Gogoi: Former Supreme Court employee
Atul Dev and
@nikita1712
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"It has been a year that Siddique is behind bars. He has a family. I do not have a job, he was our breadwinner. The police have shattered the little happiness we had."
Raihanath Kappan writes about a year of torment.
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Shouting down dissident opinions and gas-lighting those who voice them isn't confidence, it's bullying. Smugly citing genocidal violence is reprehensible. Illuminating series of tweets for what they confirm about the AAP and an Ivy League education.
I am a proud member of a party whose work speaks.
Are you influenced by parties involved in 1984 or 2002 genocides ?
We have no skeletons in our closet, that's why I can counter your baseless attacks with confidence.
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Over the past few days, reporters from
@thecaravanindia
have doggedly recorded the violence and its gruesome effects in north-east Delhi. Each of these stories is a stark indictment of the police, the politicians they are probably receiving their orders from, and of us.
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We need to be thankful to Raya Sarkar, who put out such accounts at great personal toll—at a time when she had negligible support, and powered through despite the lack of collective empathy we are priveleged with now.
We should be thankful to the women whose courageous
#metoo
is demanding a reckoning with rampant sexual harassment in media, film, and every other corner of life. 1/n
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"They humiliate me by asking me to serve tea. They make me stand outside the ward. They don’t allow me inside the operation theatre. They block my number so I can’t talk about a patient’s case. They checked my degree because they claimed it was fake."
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In Dec 2017,
@VidyaKrishnan
wrote to me:“If you ever decide to interview female journalists about sexual assault in newsrooms, I’ll be willing to go on the record.” Nearly a year and multiple interviews later, I continue to be in awe of her courage:
(1/n)
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Her next hearing is on Wednesday, no cancellation order so far. If you really do want to support the women who speak truth to power at an immense personal cost, then show up.
In the furore of the Supreme Court hearing, please do remember that the woman whose complaint formed the basis of the
@thecaravanindia
,
@scroll_in
and
@thewire_in
reports, has her bail cancellation hearing today. In about an hour from now.
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At Seemapuri police station, lawyers waited the entire night, first to be allowed to meet the detained men and for copies of the FIR; then for a late-night magistrate’s order to that effect; and now, finally, the bureaucratic churn of negotiating with the investigating officer.
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India's Minister of External Affairs sounds like a petulant class monitor.
MEA checked with the Philippines Embassy. This was an unsolicited supply as they had no Covid cases. Clearly for cheap publicity by you know who. Giving away cylinders like this when there are people in desperate need of oxygen is simply appalling.
@Jairam_Ramesh
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Why is our conversation on consent centred around the need to explicitly give consent and not the mandate of explicitly seeking it?
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When men tell you about their mental health issues, their struggles, their despair as a way of responding to accusations of sexual harassment, they the erase women they drove to fraught mental health and despair by their actions. Don't let them.
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For much of his 30-year-reign, Pachauri cultivated an environment of misogyny and sexism at TERI, within which sexual harassment became "personal business" from which people could turn away. Through the course of the story, I found that he had harassed at least 8 other women..
Today, a Delhi court ordered framing of charges in the sexual harassment case against RK Pachauri.
From the July 2016 cover story,
@nikita1712
's investigation into the allegations against Pachauri:
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The manner in which the sexual harassment allegations against Gogoi have been dealt with tells us a lot of things about the judiciary, and none of it is encoraging.
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For the Media issue,my profile of Anjana Om Kashyap, a product and agent of a New India—built on and enabled by the inequities of the old—who thinks of reservations as the “biggest injustice” and of Aaj Tak, as one of the few channels not “licking anyone.”
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This interview with Mahavir Narwal by
@karwanemohabbat
, of a father who seems to be everything men in this country are not—gentle, encouraging, proud. "When she comes, she should find her room in a good shape." What is this country.
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Now online: For
@thecaravanindia
's Media issue, Atul Dev and I profile the industrialist, politician and media baron Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
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The BARC ratings also indicated that a single household in Gujarat, listed in the category of “Males 61+”, accounted for a disproportionate share of Republic TV’s weekly ratings. This anomaly was brought to the notice of BARC by at least October 2017.
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The NCRB data on farmer suicides, its omissions on the reasons, and Maharashtra's overwhelming representation in those figures reminded me of a key character from
@thecaravanindia
's investigation into Judge Loya's death: Dr Makarand Vyawahare. (1/n)
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In the furore of the Supreme Court hearing, please do remember that the woman whose complaint formed the basis of the
@thecaravanindia
,
@scroll_in
and
@thewire_in
reports, has her bail cancellation hearing today. In about an hour from now.
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My mother just sent me an audio recording of “Nanha Munha Rahi Hoon” by way of expressing her appreciation for the Gogoi story, and if there is a better compliment I have not seen or heard it.
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Amit shah talking about injustices against Indian women and Dalits. The sheer gall.
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Video Link:
At Shaheen Bagh, a very-attired-for-Bombay
@kunalkamra88
tells Amit Shah, hum aapko chronology samjhayenge—pehla aaya haren pandya, phir sohrabuddin, or phir Judge Loya.
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According to BARC numbers, in its first two weeks, Republic TV received 58% of the total available impressions across the entire English-language news category between 6 pm and 8 pm—when Goswami is not even on the air.
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“I am going to get personal if you muzzle my voice...because this is a struggle that is very personal,”
@priyaramani
’s lawyer, Senior Advocate Rebecca, was a force to reckon with in the courtroom today.
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The process is the punishment.
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Between the horrific mistreatment of Chandrashekhar Azad and the attempts to drum up support for CAA through a hotline number, this government's bizarre cruelty can be understood with clarity only as a barometer for its fear.
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Men respond to an allegation of sexual harassment.
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A better second story as a follow-up could not have been scripted. A timely reminder that journalistic critique cannot hinge primarily on the forcefulness of a denial. Just as in any beat, the implausible can be, and is often possible.
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Srinivas is a daily-wage labourer in Bangalore, working at crematoriums as the second wave hit. He received no aid for admission to a government hospital when he got Covid, so his family went to a private one. They need your help now. Please contribute.
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This government and its penchant for communicating atrocious policy announcements via a series of theatrics is among the smuggest, most inhumane things a state can do to its people.
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May uncomplicated legacies never be simplified, and grief be untainted by erasure. The brave TERI complainant’s legal battle against Pachauri remains unresolved, but the numerous accounts of harassment her courage led to endure.
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As the Adani group—which has spared no effort in going after reporters who hold it to account—co-presents an award for excellence in journalism, a reminder of what
@Akshayamukul
did eight years ago, in relation to the very same ceremony.
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—mental, emotional and social—of that betrayal. This is where it starts: the softer beats, the gendered jokes, the old boys who drink together & don't like women who argue. The ones who lull you into a false sense of security by virtue of their progressive stories and rhetoric.
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Given the growing list of journalists who have been booked under the UAPA—over just the past twenty-four hours—for doing their jobs, 142 feels like a charitable rank for India.
India’s score in this year’s World Press Freedom Index falls - heavily affected by the situation in Kashmir where 'the govt... has made it virtually impossible for journalists to cover what was happening in what has become a vast open prison'.
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The lay-offs in the US are a sobering reminder of the fragility of journalistic eco-systems. Support the news you read. If you aren't paying money to consume it, you're paying in the compromises an advertising-heavy publication will make on the stories it carries (or doesn't).
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Have opened my DMs for anyone who would like to get in touch.
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Nahi.
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A fittingly named award for a newsroom filled with colleagues who inspire, everyday.
Congratulations to The Caravan, winner of the Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Nieman Fellows at
@Harvard
chose
@thecaravanindia
for its “uncompromising coverage of the erosion of human rights, social justice and democracy in India."
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Update: from my colleague
@shahidtantray
who was still at the spot— the police did not let the lawyers meet the detained men despite the order.
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Four years, weeks, or days—Bombay always feels like unfinished business.
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Three journalists from The Caravan were assaulted day before yesterday. Two of them are now speaking about what happened at a press conference. Please show your support.
#Live
| Arundhati Roy,
@pbhushan1
, Anand Sahay, Shahid Abbas and
@HartoshSinghBal
at The Press Club of India, on the attack on three Caravan journalists in north-east Delhi
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A group of young men encircled the woman reporter, shooting videos and images of her, while passing lewd comments. One man pulled down his dhoti in front of her, another demanded access to her phone, a mob of men and women hit her. The cost of journalism in India's capital.
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So why is one part of Delhi burning? And why that part alone?
Not all of
#DelhiNCR
is burning, just 5kms from Daryaganj, this is how students are protesting at India Gate.
#CAA_NRC_Protests
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The Caravan's fierce journalism is a labour of love that cannot exist without its independence. We need you. Please subscribe.
True Media Needs True Allies.
Folks, is launching a subscription drive!
Besides burning midnight oil, we burn ₹ ₹ ₹ to produce big investigations, compelling profiles, kickass photo documentaries etc.
Please subscribe
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A granular work of sprawling reportage by
@jeegujja
, which holds those who have nurtured majoritarian interests, indisputably accountable. It is a difficult read, as it should be, punctuated with the histories of lives lost, and inestimably altered.
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"Once you start noticing these one-sided displays of contrition in the media and in life, you’ll be shocked both at how often you see them and at how much pressure women are under to accept these nonapologies ... never made to them in the first place."
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A reminder of what actions are being condoned and who is being rehabilitated by
@BloomsburyIndia
.
"Whatever Kapil Mishra ordered, the ACP did just that. The riots happened on Kapil Mishra's orders."
In a video testimony, Rubina Bano said she witnessed Anuj Sharma, a Delhi Police ACP, assure Kapil Mishra on the phone about attacking Chand Bagh's anti-CAA protesters.
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The formidable
@SagarChoudhary_
wins the Red Ink award in politics. Read his explosive story on how Ajit Doval and the Modi cabinet undermined Indian interests in the Rafale deal:
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No Modi, but no party or politicking with a difference either.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal: This is the day of Lord Hanuman who has blessed the people of Delhi. We pray that Hanuman Ji keeps showing the right path to us so that we continue to serve people for the next five years.
#DelhiElectionResults
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Bad news has become such a staple, good news feels disorienting. Congratulations and gratitude for Priya Ramani, Rebecca John and her team, who fought a fearless case.
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Thankful to have been a part of an incredible team that anchored not just these stories, but twenty-five other reports that formed a part of
@thecaravanindia
's dogged investigation into Judge Loya's death. We need your support, subscribe to The Caravan:
More happy news from Chennai: Strong contendor for the award was another of our’s own story on Judge Loya. Nikita Saxena’s (
@nikita1712
) Nagpur series got special mention in the award. Remember Caravan did 27 stories on Judge Loya. Double joy!
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Finally, the befuddling choice to publish this piece about a man who was embroiled, for nearly 5 years, in a legal battle involving serious and disturbing charges of sexual harassment without a mention of how his impunity cost the climate change community many talented women.
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Who's going to tell him.
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Extra-judicial killings are a weapon that have been used with consistency and brutality to kill, and rape, countless women. They have exploited a terrible pain to grant themselves a heinous glory. This is no victory. This is no democracy.
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The order has been in their possession for at least three hours. But the policemen at the station first insisted on awaiting a physical copy that was ferried from Saket and then cited chain of command. All for the lawyers to be able to see the men and their state for themselves.
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A centre that is indefensibly sluggish in its response to an unfolding disaster and a party that is happy to project bogus theories about a God who cannot bear the thought of women entering a temple. What a time to be alive.
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The crisis in Manipur, the Balasore train crash, the wrestlers' protests—and India's most powerful politicians. You can't make this thread up.
#WATCH
|
#BJP
national president
#JPNadda
performs Yoga at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurugram, Haryana on
#9thInternationalYogaDay
Track latest updates -
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Last week, I spent time with private & public health doctors, COVID-19 volunteers and patients in Bengaluru—which boasts of highest active COVID-19 cases among Indian districts. It is a city teetering on the edge of crisis. My report on Bengaluru's overburdened health system:
Fighting a forest fire with sprinklers: Bengaluru’s escalating COVID-19 crisis
@nikita1712
reports:
#COVID19India
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