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Journalist/writer | Formerly @scroll_in | Alum @KingsCollegeLon | DMs open for leads and tips | she/they

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3 months
How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning Them From India RTI responses reveal that the govt cancelled 102 OCI cards between 2014 and May 2023. Some have also been blacklisted from entering the country. Reporting:
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3 years
Journalists protesting against the arrest of Mandeep Punia next to the new Delhi police headquarters
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Are the courts sleeping? How have bulldozer demolitions been normalised? How can the state be so apathetic and cruel?
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Umar Khalid’s lawyer Trideep Pais in his submission is scrutinising Delhi riots conspiracy FIR 59/20 and how police used a speech Khalid made on 17/2/2020 that was broadcast on news channels “Clearly the Delhi police had nothing except Republic TV and News18”
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Things are extremely tense in Maujpur-Jaffrabad. Here is a video I clicked at 3.14 pm at Maujpur Chowk where I saw pro CAA protestors set a shop on fire.
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An account of what I saw yesterday at Jaffrabad-Maujpur. A middle-aged man with a saffron tikka on his forehead repeatedly asked reporters to stop filming the arson. “Bade dinon ke baad Hindu jaaga hai,” he said.
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3 years
Qutub Minar at night is just divine.
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In A Riot-Torn Khargone, Hindus Organise An Economic Boycott Of Muslims On WhatsApp, Hindu groups have been circulating a list of 40 Muslim-run shops in Khargone, with a direction to Hindu women to stop buying from them
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Journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh has been arrested. He has reported on police atrocities against Adivasis. Sharing a 2021 interview with him on being targeted via Pegasus.
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It wasn’t hard to find Wali Gujarati’s shrine in Ahmedabad. Everyone remembers. Street vendors, shoemakers, all gave me precise directions. It is still jarring to see what is left of it.
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Taj Mahal. 6:30 am.
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3 years
Last year Union minister Anurag Thakur led crowds to chant “goli maro” and barely days later a teenager opened fire at protestors. The teenager, an adult now, looks up to Thakur and congratulates him.
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At Ghazipur border, farmers recall the Mahabharata, compare the government to Kauravas, and say their Pandava army is ready.
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Delhi has crossed 25,000 cases. But patients are finding it difficult to access beds in hospitals for Covid-19 care. Some said there was a mismatch with no.of vacant beds Delhi Corona app showed and what hospital authorities told them.
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Pais points out how Delhi police sought to obtain footage of this speech. They wrote to TV18 for the raw footage. But TV18 responded to say they did not have raw footage and took it from a tweet made by a BJP member.
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#Thread I live in an open space in a Delhi neighbourhood, and for the past few days it’s been particularly windy, smoky. But I’ve started to notice black stains, ash on the clothes I put out to dry. I didn’t know where it was coming from until...
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Pais points out that police wrote to Republic TV for the same raw footage as well. Republic TV responded to say the footage they aired “was not recorded by our camera person”. In its letter to police, Republic TV points the source to a tweet by Amit Malviya, Pais argues.
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I clicked this video at 5 pm. I’m around 100 m away from Maujpur Chowk were the pro CAA protest is taking place. Listen carefully.
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“It is copying the tweet from a politician and placing it as your own news item,” Pais says.
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All the claims made by police are falling apart. This bail is significant on that front.
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#Breaking Delhi Court grants bail to Former Congress Councillor #IshratJahan in FIR 59/2020 which alleges a larger conspiracy in the Delhi Riots that happened in 2020. #DelhiRiots
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Mundka residents waving at the farmers parade.
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Video of speech ends. Judge asks meaning of the word “ehtezaad”. Someone on the hearing says it means “protest”. Pais says: “He [Khalid] is talking about democratic power. He refers to Gandhi…he does not call for violence.”
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Pais brings up the tweet of Amit Malviya and plays the clip he tweeted of Khalid speaking at Amaravati. He then plays the entire video of speech Khalid gave that day.
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Pais points out how police did not produce the entire speech. “Look how lopsided the whole prosecution is that they have one speech against me.”
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Pais has spent the last 10 mins scrutinising this alleged meeting and the statement of a protected witness who was not even present during the said meeting. “This is a joke!” exclaims Pais. “There is no accused who should be arraigned in this FIR. It is cooked up from day one”
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2 years
There is a lot going on in Khargone as I found while reporting from there. Pledges have been taken to boycott Muslims + an active drive to sideline them from local fairs:
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“Kripaya Khargone mein in dukanon se kharidari na karein (please do not buy from these shops). They will go hungry,” Trilok Raghuvanshi told @VijaytaL . “We have told [ #Hindu ] vendors to put a tilak or a god’s photo on their shop." #Khargone #Muslims
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Pais brings up Quint report of how police claim a conspiracy was hatched during meeting on 8/01/20 with Tahir Hussain, Khalid Saifi Umar Khalid at Shaheen Bagh where they allegedly planned violence for Trump visit. But news of Trump visit only came out on Jan 14.
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Pais arguing how Khalid etc could know of Trumps visit beforehand. “How did MEA not know Trump was coming?”
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“Is it that easy to prosecute people?” Pais says.
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We are being gaslit 🔥🔥🔥
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As UP BJP leaders call for population control plan, 50% of party MLAs have more than two children 8 BJP MLAs have 6 children each: incl UP minister of excise Ram Naresh Agnihotri. So do 1 MLA each from Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Nishad party.
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It has been three months since the Delhi violence. Under the lockdown, police continue to make arrests. A pattern: Victims of the violence,who filed police complaints of their houses &vehicles getting burnt, got prosecuted. A close look at two cases:
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Hearing ends. To continue on - 3/09 & 6/09
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‘Access denied’: How Delhi government has stonewalled reporters in the capital CM Arvind Kejriwal hasn't held a physical press conf in Delhi for over a year or arranged for journos ask Qs to him via live webcast. “We are reduced to doing PR for them.”
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In A Riot-Torn MP Town, Hindus Organise An Economic Boycott Of Muslims Messages circulating among residents show lists of 40 Muslim owned shops and a direction: “Kripaya Khargone mein in dukanon se kharidari na karein" Reporting:
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The reporter of this Kumbh story walked 10 km and did not find any Covid safety measures in place, no thermal screening and devotees being allowed in without RT PCR tests.
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Today is my last day at @scroll_in . These 3+ years were an enriching roller coaster ride. From reporting on protests, to riots, pandemic, more protests, it's been relentless to bear witness. So it feels right to step back, take a break, reflect and rest.
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Exactly one year since this picture was clicked. I still vividly remember how protestors spontaneously climbed atop barricades and held up posters of Ambedkar and Gandhi outside the Delhi Police Headquarters.
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If you had any clue, you’d know that there is very little difference between industrial grade and medical grade oxygen. In fact, it is industrial oxygen that is now being diverted for medical purposes. Read:
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Priti Gandhi (Modi ka Parivar)
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Malicious propaganda is being spread that India had exported scarce medical oxygen during the pandemic year of 2020-21. This is absolutely false information & it is important for people to understand that it is industrial oxygen that is being exported and NOT medical oxygen.
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I had gone there to report a few days back. Thought I would leave everything I saw right there. Little did I know that the smoke hovering above the crematorium would reach me too. Hell is here.
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As Covid-19 devastates Delhi, Central Vista project work continues as an "essential service" No construction is allowed in Delhi’s lockdown unless workers live on site. But 180 vehicles have been given permission to operate. Reporting:
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I’m standing around 100 m away from Maujpur Chowk where the pro CAA protest is taking place. Can hear protestors from a distance chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
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How do older queer people in India experience ageing? And what support structures do they have? This story taught me about life, living and community, and made me ask myself some tough questions. Grateful to editor @Ankur_pali , @pulitzercenter
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4 years
Defying prohibitory orders around Red Fort a crowd of protestors chant slogans. @scroll_in
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Was live tweeting a court hearing because I’m apparently greedy????? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️
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Three workers at Central Vista have tested positive for Covid-19. Other workers we spoke to complained of cramped living spaces, unpaid wages. Some photos of tin sheds I saw there, and one tanker - these workers have to bathe in the open. Read:
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“We were warned that working in labour rights was like walking on the edge of a sword,” said Kaur. “We can be killed anytime. Our life is not very long.” Meet Shiv Kumar and Nodeep Kaur, young labour activists inspired by Bhagat Singh
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India is running out of oxygen, Covid-19 patients are dying – because the government wasted time It took 8 months to invite bids for over 150 PSA plants costing just Rs 200 cr. 6 months later, most still aren’t up and running. @psychia90 and I report:
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The protest continues...
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Exactly a year ago: First person: I watched a mob set a shop on fire in Delhi, chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’
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Tractors from the Tikri parade lined to enter Delhi.
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Two years to this…
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Exactly one year since this picture was clicked. I still vividly remember how protestors spontaneously climbed atop barricades and held up posters of Ambedkar and Gandhi outside the Delhi Police Headquarters.
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Kudos to @iyersaishwarya and @AdityaMenon22 who pointed out a big loophole in the Delhi police's claims months ago.
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Pais: This was run in a story by 'The Quint' to show how fallacious this was. #UmarKhalid #DelhiCourt #UAPA #DelhiRiots
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In the middle of slogans like “Patrakar Ekta Zinfandel!” Delhi police asking journalists to clear the protest. But journalists respond: “Amit Shah can do a rally but we can’t protest?”
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A day in the life of the Home Minister of India - amid a raging pandemic in the country.
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Public programs of Union Home Minister Shri @AmitShah in West Bengal. Date: 16th April 2021. 1) Public Meeting in Tehatta at 11:30AM 2) Roadshow in Krishnanagar Uttar at 1PM 3) Roadshow in Barrackpore at 3PM 4) Public Meeting in Khardaha 4:45PM
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A thread of all the wobbly pen drawings I make when I go around Delhi. This is Shish Gumbad at Lodhi Garden.
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Police fired tear gas here towards anti CAA protestors at Jaffrabad at 3.55 pm. Tear gas smoke is still clearing from the lanes.
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Three workers at Central Vista contract Covid-19. Many complain of cramped living space, late wages The government has barred access and photography at the site. But we were able to visit and speak to a dozen workers. My report:
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Replugging a piece from last year when the farm protests had just begun. At the time, mainstream media painted the farmers as “terrorists”, “khalistanis”. And today the govt has listening to the protesting farmers.
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One chart shows how dramatically India’s GDP growth rate projections have fallen this year Read:
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Further down the road, more residents welcome farmers by showering flowers on them.
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Happening in the national capital Labelled ‘jihadi’, Sai Baba’s idol demolished in Delhi. Hindu hardliner exults. Devotees despair
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Until I realised that I live barely a km from a crematorium.
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Delhi Police claim that the riots were a result of a conspiracy. But where is the evidence? Police have so far relied on confession statements from accused. But three chargesheets are replete with identical statements. Read:
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Delhi police investigation & arrests spark concerns of a communal bias. “Mil gayi azaadi? Le li azaadi? Aur kitni azaadi logi ab?”, police allegedly told kin of accused. Final part in this series that looks at two more cases of arrests:
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Excerpts from Anthems of Resistance by Ali Husain Mir and Raza Mir (gifted to me by a dear friend)
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This is the Delhi government’s order on the different kinds of proof/docs a person needs to qualify as a Delhi resident in order to receive Covid treatment at hospitals. I do not have any of the documents required as stated in this:
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You’ve really stooped low @AkshayMarathe and you need to apologise to @hussainhaidry and @asfreeasjafri for all the gaslighting and insinuations you’ve made. Act like a spokesperson, not a troll.
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Akshay Marathe
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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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A WhatsApp group coordinated Delhi violence, members boasted about killing Muslims. But there was one politician supported and mentioned prominently in the group - Kapil Mishra. Read the excerpts from the entire chat transcripts we accessed.
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Met a person who drives twice a day to and fro Delhi and Shamli, to refill cylinders for his uncle admitted at a hospital there after they ran out of oxygen. What it takes to find and fill an oxygen cylinder in Delhi – nothing less than nerves of steel
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This is absolutely crazy and Orwellian. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. What a brilliant investigation by @thewire_in
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The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by online operatives to hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience.
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Credit to @newslaundry for bringing in much needed lightness at a time when the news cycle is almost always distressing.
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Government put out ads in newspapers for migrant labourers. God save the queen! Watch the full episode of #TVNewsance :
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Some new reporting from me: RTIs reveal that the govt has cancelled over 100 OCIs between 2014-May2023, with the maximum being cancelled in 2020. Interviews with OCIs whose cards were cancelled reveal how the govt is going after those critical of them in the diaspora.
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Indian embassies & consulates increasingly tasked with monitoring & stopping entry into #India of those who criticise or even tweet against #Modi , his govt & #Hindutva . Overseas Citizen cards cancelled, others blacklisted, reports @VijaytaL
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"programme organised by Delhi government"
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Delhi: CM Arvind Kejriwal and his wife Sunita Kejriwal participate in the 'Ganesh Pujan' programme organised by Delhi Government. #GaneshChaturthi
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Disha Ravi's motivation to become a climate activist stemmed from watching her grandparents, who are farmers, struggle with the effects of climate change.
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This video is a reminder of the importance of rationalists like Narendra Dabholkar. Their work challenged this and dismantled such superstition and stupidity.
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This is 2021 India 🇮🇳
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I’m lying down flat on the ground and this is my view.
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Patrakar Ekta Zindabad!**
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It’s way past midnight but a huge crowd continues to protest in front of Delhi police headquarters at ITO.
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"He was also asked why Muslims showed sympathies with the Dalits." Why a Muslim reporter in India has spent nearly 150 days in jail reports @furquansid
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Farcical FIRs, dubious witness statements, lack of evidence – the court blows holes in the Delhi Police’s investigations. 20 court orders show how cases are falling apart:
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Dil ki police that files 19,000+ pages of fiction as evidence but cannot verify an address.
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Address Verification Of Student Activists Not Complete Due To Paucity Of Time : Delhi Police Tells Court
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Some news: really happy to be a student again after a long time. I’m at @KingsCollegeLon , where I will try to find answers to questions on India and democracy, building on my reporting. It’s really a privilege to be here and have classes at Bush House, formerly BBC headquarters.
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Updates: As of 11 am, 20 deaths confirmed and 189 victims who have sustained injuries at GTB hospital, said Dr Sunil Kumar the medical superintendent. @scroll_in
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Everyone needs to...
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As J&K students are cut off from home for over a month, they struggle to make ends meet “I eat only twice a day from a food stall next to my house and that too on credit."
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Tear gas fired nextto Maharaja Surajmal metro
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Yesterday I travelled to Uttar Pradesh to the town where the Delhi shooter lives. Residents there declined to speak to reporters but were chanting slogans in support of the teenager. “Tum sangharsh karo, hum tumhare saath hain”
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Do join @somyalakhani and I, along with multiple reporters from Indian cities, as we discuss the traumas of covering the pandemic, mental health and coping, on spaces starting 9:30 pm.
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There is a lot of risk involved for reporters and more so for photojournalists. Enraged mobs were constantly telling them to stop shooting. The pictures, the videos are all evidence, documented footage of what exactly happened. Please take a moment to appreciate photographers.
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Uday Bhatia
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Danish Siddiqui's work really stands out. I don't know how he manages to take photographs which have a distinctive quality in such chaotic and dangerous circumstances but he does
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What happened to the men we saw in the video falling off a plane in #Kabul ? They crashed on Wali Salek, a Kabul resident's roof: “It sounded like a bomb blast,” he said over a video call. Reporting from Delhi:
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Some good news. On March 2, we reported that a toddler was separated from her family and went missing after the violence. The toddler, named Safiya, was reunited with her parents yesterday.
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Finally, Zubair has been granted bail. But this bit of the cases transferring to Delhi Police’s Special Cell is rather ominous. Among the Special Cell’s work is the wider “conspiracy” case in Delhi riots matter. We know how that turned out:
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Order : The direction to transfer all UP FIRs to Delhi Police Special Cell shall apply to future FIRs which may be registered in future on the basis of tweets. #MohammedZubair #AltNews
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