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National Editor @scroll I Ex: @IndianExpress, Mint I [email protected] & [email protected]

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Kaagaz nahi dikhayenge, par kaagaz kuch kahaaniya sunaate hai. My father's first passport tells the history of how he became a citizen of a new country, and why his father refused to become Indian. My piece in #SundayEye's special issue on #RepublicDay indianexpress.com/article/ex…

Why my grandfather refused to become a citizen of India

In 1947, a line ran through Sylhet, Assam, dividing families and creating new citizens. The burden of that history is still with us.

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Swati Moitra@swatiatrest14h
Genuinely insane and exactly as the entire academic fraternity had cautioned.
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S 🌿@ishqandinquilabOct 25
i’m gonna make americans watch this scene to show how intimidating they can get
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Replying to @KanchanGupta @DrSYQuraishi
Dada, I did. As a media stalwart, you know why it’s important to talk to Dr SY Quraishi in the press context. No recent CEC has framed the world’s largest election so positively & usefully for global audiences, via SVEEP, National Voters’ Day, IIIDEM, & as IDEA’s Global Ambassador of Democracy. He has been the (unofficial) global ambassador of Indian democracy. His books (An Undocumented Wonder, The Great March of Democracy, India’s Experiment with Democracy, Democracy’s Heartland) document both the machinery and the unfinished reforms. Why is this institutional memory largely missing from today’s debates on rolls, SIR, appointments & integrity? Thanks for watching.
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To understand why Arunachal Pradesh is in turmoil, read: ‘Threats, detentions, militarisation’: How Arunachal government is choking anti-dam protests @ZamanRokibuz_ scroll.in/article/1096598/th…

‘Threats, detentions, militarisation’: How Arunachal government is choking anti-dam protests

Residents say villages have been turned into ‘military zones’ to carry out a survey to assess dam sites.

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Rokibuz Zaman@ZamanRokibuz_Oct 22
“My blouse was torn and my saree had been removed by three men," Laxmi Mondal told @scroll_in The minor girls were threatened with rape and abduction. In Bengal, Christians allegedly assaulted by Bajrang Dal mob, forced to perform Hindu rituals scroll.in/article/1096592/in…

In Bengal, Christians allegedly assaulted by Bajrang Dal mob, forced to perform Hindu rituals

The minor girls of the families were threatened with rape and abduction, while the complainant was nearby disrobed, she told Scroll.

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jo@thejoeydavisOct 21
if you doomscroll twitter all day of course it looks like the world is ending but if you just get off the internet and go outside you’ll find that the world is actually ending oh god this is it
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the endless regurgitation and quote tweeting of crap on this site my god
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Anant Gupta@AnantGuptaAGOct 21
In this interview, Justice Muralidhar: 👉🏽debunks the notion that CJP leaders made a mistake by signing peace bonds 👉🏽asks what if Ranka and Das were rickshaw pullers 👉🏽calls the bluff on the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Read: scroll.in/article/1096543/im…

‘Impinges on freedom’: Former Delhi HC Justice S Muralidhar on CJP leaders’ custody

An interview with Muralidhar on the oxymoron that is ‘executive magistrate’ and the ‘robust afterlife’ of colonialism in Indian criminal law.

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Supriya Sharma
@sharmasupriyaOct 19
In drought-hit Maharashtra, thousands working under VB-G RAM G scheme - on paper On ground, @tabassum_b found no workers at five sites in Beed. Those named on the muster roll were not aware of work orders issued against their names. Nor did they know where their wages were being credited. scroll.in/article/1096483/wh…

Why Modi government’s rural jobs scheme is a sham in drought-hit Maharashtra district

On paper, thousands are getting work under the scheme in Beed. But Scroll’s investigation found ghost workers, half-built roads and lakhs paid in wages.

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VB-G RAM G scheme is a scam, at least in Beed. The scheme was being manipulated to add fake attendance, fake work sites.We traced 47 workers in 5 sites & found that they didnt know their name was listed. Crores are being siphoned off. Read the story here. scroll.in/article/1096483/wh…

Why Modi government’s rural jobs scheme is a sham in drought-hit Maharashtra district

On paper, thousands are getting work under the scheme in Beed. But Scroll’s investigation found ghost workers, half-built roads and lakhs paid in wages.

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On paper we saw that the employment scheme VB-G RAM G was working really well... Out of 76,822 workers in Maharashtra, more than half – 40,267 – were from Beed alone on October 4. Scroll investigated these workers. What we found...
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At a time when Maharashtra is seeing its worst ever drought, thousands of farmers are forced to migrate to seek livelihood. We went to Beed where every village complained about lack of employment. This is strange because...
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Ravi Handa
@ravihandaOct 18
Offering the India version
Narayanan Hariharan
@narayananhOct 18
Offering without comment.
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Supriya Sharma
@sharmasupriyaOct 17
The many Neha Boras and Abhijeet Dipkes My colleague @knowleena spoke to 10 protestors, some as young as 17, to understand why a generation is rising in revolt against the Modi government scroll.in/article/1096458/ho…

How the Modi government radicalised a generation to rise in revolt against it

Ten young protestors in Delhi explain what has angered them and drawn them into the streets.

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Important story: Women say they are being groped and inappropriately touched by male Delhi police officers while being detained. @_Vaishnavi_R @knowleena scroll.in/article/1096435/gr…

‘Groped and pushed’: Women allege sexual harassment while being detained during Delhi protests

Protestors have reported being inappropriately touched by male police officials while being taken into custody.

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scroll.in/article/1096435/gr… @knowleena and I spoke with women protestors' on their experiences, why women gathered in large numbers in the protests, and why they think the state used violence.

‘Groped and pushed’: Women allege sexual harassment while being detained during Delhi protests

Protestors have reported being inappropriately touched by male police officials while being taken into custody.

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A policeman ran towards Neha Bora, his outstretched palms landing on her chest.. "People screamed at him." Women allege sexual harassment while being detained during Delhi protests scroll.in/article/1096435/gr…

‘Groped and pushed’: Women allege sexual harassment while being detained during Delhi protests

Protestors have reported being inappropriately touched by male police officials while being taken into custody.

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Scroll spoke to another protestor, who said she was groped by a male police official while being detained. Important story by @_Vaishnavi_R and @knowleena
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Rahul Kanwal
@rahulkanwalOct 16
Just as it is wrong for protesters to abuse and attack journalists, journalists heckling the leaders of a protest movement is a breach of the very same professional responsibility. Our job as reporters is to listen, ask questions and report on the story — not become active participants in it. Journalists resorting to theatre and abuse during press conferences is plain wrong and unacceptable. Report on the story. Don’t become the story.
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Supriya Sharma
@sharmasupriyaOct 15
Those accusing protestors of instigating "regime change" might want to listen to what ordinary people, who have no inclination to protest, are saying about the Modi government. (Not very pleasant things.) scroll.in/article/1096407/mo…

Modi’s bigger challenge: What people away from protest sites are saying about his government

The protests have blown the lid off a growing number of grievances: SIR, inflation, farm distress, education inequality, rising health costs.

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