In Uttar Pradesh, District Magistrates love the National Security Act — to arrest without charge or trial. The Allahabad High Court strikes down their orders over 75% of the time.
@kaunain_s
unpacks this vital pushback. An Express Investigation
#ChinaWatching
: Firm with links to Beijing monitors 10,000 Indian individuals and entities; says it works for ‘rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.’ | Part One of An Express Investigation by
@iyervaidy
,
@mazoomdaar
and
@kaunain_s
Ravish Tiwari’s shoes cannot be filled but they shall sit in a very special corner of the Express newsroom for ever. They will help us land on our feet. Thank you to all who have him in your prayers today. Goodbye, my dear.
Lockdown is harsh but a few weeks of it will cut the spread; set up a war-room for supplies; get vaccines from everywhere. Dr Fauci prescribes, with a post-script: Hang in there, help each other, it will end. An Express Interview, by
@missmishma
Each Board topper is an outlier. But when Ritika
@KhurafatiChopra
, tracked down 86 of them, she found that the arcs of their lives map an India story. Of ambition and achievement — and the chasm in between. An Express Investigation
Every box was checked: Aadhaar, bank account, fingerprints, web filing. But poor minority kids didn’t get the Central scholarship — the sharks did.
@abhishekangad
goes door to door, school to school, to crack the scam open. An Express Investigation
7 times bitten, never shy. As global elite find new ways to hide their riches, good journalism finds new ways to seek.
@IndianExpress
reporters & editors, with
@ICIJorg
, investigate Pandora Papers. Series starts today. Proud and privileged.
The last time,
@RTIExpress
and
@Tweetsandeep
were part of the team that cracked Pandora papers: secret offshore trusts. This time, they went a little closer home, to Ayodhya. To look for who bought land. An Express Investigation.
“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.” Philip Roth, American Pastoral. Thank you, Goodbye.
It’s hard for a reporter to have to leave a story untold — just when it starts to unfold. So Letter From Kabul by
@ShubhajitRoy
becomes a Letter To Kabul. A thank-you note to a city for its kindness and courage in the face of fear and despair.
Handwritten log at health centres,
Excel sheet at headquarters, list those tested for Covid by name, age, phone number. That’s on paper.
@santoshchitra
tracks down 600 entries in 3 districts to check what’s on the ground. An Express Investigation.
Jui Navare, daughter of former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, said that she wants everyone to remember that “even in his death he was trying to save his city, his country”.
In conversation with
@smitagnair
This February,
@santoshchitra
scoured records to reveal dodgy testing in rural Bihar, ringing an early alarm of how the Covid ball had been dropped. This month, the story came home — the second wave took his father away. A reporter’s notes, a son’s tears.
One afternoon, one evening, one night, on her way home from work, my mother went missing...
That’s how it opens.
Thank you Manasi
@sorcerical
, Meru
@MeruGokhale
, and David
@DGALitAgents
for helping it close — and set sail into the city and the sea.
'Reading this is to dive into the darkness and spot a piercing ray of light' - Shabana Azmi
'An extraordinary combination of philosophy and allegory' - Amartya Sen
'Disturbing and relentless' - Githa Hariharan
'A terrific storyteller' - K.R. Meera
Forthcoming on 25 April.
Thank you, Ritu,
@kaunain_s
,
@mazoomdaar
,
@santoshchitra
amd
@mihirsv
. For your stories. Of dodgy surgeries & faulty implants putting lives at risk. Of abuse of children going unchecked in a shelter. And young men and women dreaming big in a small town. Waiting for your next.
With the courageous
@mariaressa
at
@IPI_WoCo
after discussing how to do our job better. For one, standing up to Rodrigo Duterte is fine journalism.
The brilliant, wonderful and heartbreaking novel The City and the Sea by
@rajkamaljha
wins the Book of the Year (Fiction) award at the
@tatalitlive
awards!
Covid locked kids out of their school. When they returned,
@SukritaBaruah
and
@abhinavsaha
sat in, for over five weeks, in a maths class, to investigate how a group of 10-year-olds, with teacher Neha Ma’am, are working hard to recover what they lost.
“I am 60 plus, at this age I’m changing. Kuch ghul mil gaya hai, aab-o-hawa mein (something has infiltrated the very air).”
@VanditaMishraIE
travels 7 days, 700 km picking up such precious straws in the Uttar Pradesh wind.
‘Dear Nisha, meaning night, I am infected, please keep your child away from me.’
This is how he begins, The Patient in Bed Number 12, just before he flies out his hospital window — to heal our ailing city.
Thank you Manasi
@sorcerical
, Milee
@mileeashwarya
, and David
@DGA
.
Out now from
@rajkamaljha
, India's novelist of the newsroom, a tapestry of hope and heartbreak, and a searing investigation of the pulse of India: a billion-plus young people, restless and ambitious, yearning for the new—and yet haunted by the old ghosts of rage and resentment.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull, wrote George Orwell in his 1984. Is even that space shrinking? That’s Opening Argument, a new column in
@IndianExpress
. Proud to welcome
@MenakaGuruswamy
.
A photo gathbandhan in Geneva. Discussing press freedom with the twin pillars of
@dawn_com
, Zaffar Abbas
@abbasz55
and Cyril Almeida
@cyalm
at
@IPI_WoCo
. Cyril gets the IPI Press Freedom Hero Award. Congratulations for telling a story without fear or favour.
A court verdict used out of context, an SC ruling ignored, a law rushed through, due process given the go by:
@apurva_hv
investigates how UP officials recover damages in protests against the new citizenship law. An Express Investigation.
Dodgy devices, shady surgeries, lives at risk: For investigating the implant bazaar, Honourable Mention for The Indian Express at
#SOPAwards2019
. Reporting by Ritu Sarin, Kaunain Sheriff
@kaunain_s
, Jay Mazoomdaar
@mazoomdaar
prompted action.
Last month,
@VanditaMishraIE
, her ear to the Bihar ground, heard how Nitish Kumar would shrink and Tejashwi Yadav fall short. Now she listens in on Punjab. First of a series.
The
#FinCENFiles
investigation is a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, bringing more acclaim to the groundbreaking project on dirty money flows by
@ICIJorg
,
@BuzzFeedNews
and more than 100 other media partners around the world.
I asked
@rajkamaljha
to think about how he approached the same material as a novelist and as a journalist and editor.
Here’s his fascinating response, a reworked version of his talk at the symposium on deprofessionalisation a few years ago:
Set the bar, then keep lowering it to walk over.
@mazoomdaar
finds this pattern in environmental clearances to six key projects and explains why. An Express Investigation
@TenzingLamsang
, Founder and Editor of
@thebhutanese
, a growing space for good journalism in Bhutan. Also knows which Thimphu bar to go to — if you are a little old.
Good catching up with my former boss,
@rajkamaljha
Chief Editor of the Indian Express Newspaper.
To give you an idea of the man, he kept introducing me as a former colleague though he was the Editor to my Editors.
Also, he, on his own, met & talked to 25 Bhutanese in 2 days.
From today onwards I’ll curate a fortnightly column “DALITALITY” at
@IndianExpress
An exclusive column in English language Indian newspaper to engage with Dalitality.
Do watch out the Sunday space and send suggestions if you may have any. New authors are welcome
#DalitLove
‘A gripping narrative of human predicament and surviving hope, yielding an extraordinary combination of philosophy and allegory. A book you have to read.’ - Amartya Sen on
@rajkamaljha
’s new novel ‘The City and The Sea’.