Writer and editor. Editing @scroll_in. Formerly @thecaravanindia. Bengaluru. Email: [email protected]
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Ajay Krishnan retweeted
📢 For days, there has been outrage over legal notices sent to digital rights groups @internetfreedom and @SFLCin
Turns out not only is the notice sent in the name of the RSS fake, even the purported Delhi Police communication to X is fabricated.
@sighyush reports:
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What shaped the politics of the women who hit the streets in recent protests, braving violence and detention?
@knowleena and Divya Aslesha report:
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Ajay Krishnan retweeted
Our cities are growing. Are they getting safer?
Rising seas threaten India’s coastlines. Are builders and governments prepared?
Help Scroll investigate.
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“All of us have to die anyway. It’s better if we die after doing something against this menace.”
As protests continue after the killing of Parvinder Singh Jhota, @safwatzgr reports on the desperation of Punjab's anti-crusaders:
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The government claims that its ethanol push benefits farmers, giving them better prices for crops used to make ethanol, and reducing payment delays.
But on the ground, there is little evidence of this.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports from Shamli and Chhindwara:
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In 2020, Shivam's mother applied for a unique disability ID, which would help avail of a pension+other benefits. Six years on, he still hasn't been assigned one.
@sneha_nosurname on the tortuous process that families have to go through to procure a UDID:
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“The whole village has been turned into a military zone. That’s why we don’t trust the government.”
@ZamanRokibuz_ reports on the government’s brutal crackdown on anti-dam protests in Arunachal Pradesh:
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Who are the young people flooding the streets, facing violence at the hands of the police?
@knowleena spoke to 10 young protestors to understand what shaped their worldviews, and what they're fighting for:
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A profile of idealistic, irreverent young protestors in Delhi with a sudden, chilling end.
@priyali_dhingra and @raghavKakkar30's report:
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Ajay Krishnan retweeted
Protestors have started flocking to Dilli Haat after @neha_aisa asked them to come there
@scroll_in’s Kritika Pant reports
Ajay Krishnan retweeted
“What’s my offence? Why are you detaining me?”
My colleague @ShoaibDaniyal was simply standing on the road in a South Delhi locality, waiting for a taxi, when he was picked up by Delhi Police.
Ajay Krishnan retweeted
My colleague, one of India's best investigative reporters, Ayush Tiwari @sighyush has been detained by Delhi Police near ITO.
He was not even at Jantar Mantar.
He had his press card prominently displayed.
He told the police many times he was a journalist.
Despite that he was bundled into a van and taken away.
“It is the first generation of Dalit-Bahujan graduates who went back to academia and introduced so many of these writers and reading.”
@Johanna_Deeksha reports on why an anonymous X post about anti-caste readings got the PMO’s attention:
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Ajay Krishnan retweeted
Vithya Ramraj has broken PT Usha’s decades-old national record in the 400m hurdles at the Asian Games. In 2023, Ramaraj told @Johanna_Deeksha how her school Physical Education teacher spotted her and her sister’s potential and encouraged them to pursue athletics despite the school’s lack of facilities.
In 2015, the Indian govt launched the Sahyogi scheme, to train caregivers for disabled people. In 2019, it shut it down, with less than 2,000 trained.
@sneha_nosurname reports on the struggles of families with disabled members to secure care for them:
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In early Sept, a tiger killed a woman cutting grass in its enclosure, after a guard accidentally opened an enclosure gate.
@_Vaishnavi_R looked into the incident and learnt that there are no standardised safety protocols for Indian zoo workers.
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As the 4th anniversary of cheetahs' arrival in India approaches, a new Kuno irrigation project threatens the cats' territory.
It will also uproot many villages already displaced in the early 2000s for lions that... never arrived.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports:
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Some indigenous communities in India have been setting rules for researchers working in their regions. They argue that some practices are exploitative, erase community knowledge.
Recently, one community blacklisted four researchers.
@knowleena reports:
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In 2024, an expert panel recommended that the ADB conduct a "climate resilience assessment" of a hydropower project it was funding, now damaged in the flood.
In May 2024, the panel found this was "yet to be done".
@_Vaishnavi_R reports:
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An ammonia leak in June killed 18 workers at a TN seafood plant. They were at huge risk because they were housed on site.
@Johanna_Deeksha finds that such setups are common across industries. Apart from the risks, they also isolate workers completely.
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