People in Jahangirpuri were locked into lanes by the police while their properties were demolished. The drive finally stopped hours after the Supreme Court ordered status quo. Photo:
@Sumedhapal4
Asrar’s father Firdous showed The Wire photographs and medical records, including an x-ray scan and hospital registration card, to prove that his son died of pellet injuries. via
@thewire_in
Exclusive: In September 2022,
@amitmalviya
reported 705 posts on Instagram. They were all taken down immediately – even when the reasons for reporting made no sense – because Malviya comes under Meta's controversial 'XCheck' list. via
@thewire_in
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Minutes before the police shot Vikas Dubey dead, vehicular movement on the road was stopped. Journalists following the convoy were also not allowed to go further.
#vikasDubeyEncounter
via
@thewire_in
After
@alishan_jafri
's report, a CID probe has been initiated into the custodial deaths and Rs 5 lakh each compensation promised to the four families. via
@thewire_in
Replugging this interview with Abhijit Banerjee from 2017, when we talked about his work with RCTs, demonetisation and the GST, and the 'Gujarat model' via
@thewire_in
CJI Bobde used to have a close relationship with the Shetkari Sanghatana, whose current president Anil Ghanawat is on the SC-appointed committee to mediate between the government and protesting farmers, reports
@Pavan_Dahat
. via
@thewire_in
Between 8 and 8:30 pm, men with lathis were seen exiting the JNU campus – most on foot and some in SUVs. When asked why men with lathis were being allowed out without questioning, a guard told me, “Anyone who wants to leave, can leave.” via
@thewire_in
The govt's main relief measure to deal with the lockdown has been to promise 5 kg extra grain to PDS beneficiaries. For April, 200 million ration card holders didn't receive that, reports
@kabira_tweeting
. via
@thewire_in
"We have burnt it (the mausoleum); we all have burnt it. Keep the camera down. No one person has burnt (it); we all have," members of a Hindutva mob told
@SrishtiTW
.
#DelhiViolence
via
@thewire_in
It has been more than two years since
@nehadixit123
wrote this deep-dive investigation into how police 'encounters' work in Yogi Adityanath's UP. Unfortunately, it's as relevant now as it was then. via
@thewire_in
Uploading “music” videos featuring the assault and abduction of Muslim men is the latest turn that the communal career of the ‘Jamia shooter’ has taken, but the police continues to ignore his violent activities, reports
@alishan_jafri
. via
@thewire_in
Seven years today since
@thewire_in
launched! Thrilled to have been part of this journey and worked with so many wonderful people. None of this would have been possible without our readers and viewers, and I hope you will keep supporting us :)
The Haridwar Kumbh Mela was supposed to be held in 2022, not 2021. But the Centre and state governments chose to appease astrologers rather than look after public health. via
@thewire_in
Exclusive: RKW Developers Ltd, a company being probed by the ED for 'terror funding', donated a large amount of money to
@BJP4India
,
@rohini_sgh
reports via
@thewire_in
Thousands of migrant workers are at Delhi's Anand Vihar terminal right now, hoping for a spot on a bus home. Some of them are giving up hope, saying they have no option but to walk.
@AjoyAshirwad
and
@AnujSrivas
report. via
@thewire_in
Studying 17 alleged extrajudicial killings in UP,
@yhrdindia
and
@peopleswatch
found that FIRs had not been registered against the police in even one case. Instead, FIRs had been registered against the victims in all the cases. via
@thewire_in
There are 10 men – other than the prime minister – who are likely to know about whether and how India bought and used Pegasus.
@svaradarajan
introduces us to them here, and argues that the SC must ensure that they reveal what they know. via
@thewire_in
Investigations like the Pegasus Project take months – time, resources and funds. If you see value in the journalism
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No matter how chaotic the day was or how tense the news, there was always a calm, reassuring presence in
@thewire_in
office. Mr Murali was our constant, gentle reminder that things would be okay. Now more than ever, can't imagine that he is gone. ❤️
Thinking of
@muddasirali27
on what would have been his 39th birthday. Mudasir was wonderful colleague – incisive in his reporting and analysis, and always generous with his time. Here are some of the excellent reports he did for
@thewire_in
over the years:
How did Vikas Dubey thrive for decades? Manoj Singh details the level of political patronage he enjoyed – and the number of secrets that he therefore held. via
@thewire_in
"The course of the events yesterday has totally shaken my faith in the functioning of our criminal justice system. Sir, I deeply regret pursuing my complaint in the vain hope of getting justice.”
via
@thewire_in
A group of international criminal and human rights lawyers have filed a submission with the US government seeking targeted sanctions against Adityanath, for his role in extra-judicial killings. |
@TheDavidBergman
via
@thewire_in
"Unfairness permeates a society like a cancer. I don’t want to invest to support bad behaviour,"
@TimDraper
tells
@AnujSrivas
on India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. via
@thewire_in
"Today, I can’t trust anybody. Everyone is going against me despite the fact that all that I have said is the truth. Mere saath sab kuch galat hua hai." via
@thewire_in
?lang=en
What does this August 5 signify for India? A confluence of two big lies, and a symbol of the path Narendra Modi has chosen for the country, writes
@svaradarajan
. via
@thewire_in
Most women in Indian prisons are actually in a prison within a prison. On Women's Day, read about their lives.
In collaboration with
@pulitzercenter
for Barred, a series reported with
@sukanyashantha
. Illustrations by
@PariplabV
. via
@thewire_in
.
@thewire_in
is looking for a sub-editor to join the editorial desk. Details below.
To apply, send an email to work
@thewire
.in with the subject line ‘Application for sub-editor’.
Please spread the word :)
"The shock and condemnation [on the killing of civilians in Nagaland] are meaningless unless the draconian AFSPA (1958) is repealed," writes
@DollyKikon
. via
@thewire_in
During COVID, Swiggy cut the minimum delivery fee per order of riders to Rs 15, down by 57%. In 2018, Swiggy job ads promised up to Rs 40,000 per month; the same jobs today promise only up to Rs 18,000, reports
@gayathriv
. via
@thewire_in
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The NHRC report calls the anti-CAA protest at Jamia an 'unlawful assembly' that invited police action against itself, and does not recommend prosecuting the policemen guilty of violence, reports
@seemi_pasha
. via
@thewire_in
"...the problem is not one of protesting farmers holding Delhi 'ransom' to their demands but of an angry ruling party holding hostage the right and liberties of anyone questioning their decisions," writes
@svaradarajan
. via
@thewire_in
In hundreds of pages worth of WhatsApp chats, it becomes clear that a Hindutva group was mobilising, identifying Muslims and boasting about violence during the Delhi riots, reports
@ismatara
. via
@thewire_in
The
@narendramodi
govt is very clear on which numbers it likes – and which it doesn't. I took a look at what 2019 has meant for data in India, and 2020 has in store. via
@thewire_in
.
@IsmatAraa
has been in Lakhimpur Kheri all of this week, meeting with families of Sunday's victims and giving us background on the Mishra family and the power it holds in the area. Here's a thread of the great stories she's done for
@thewire_in
.
Hospitals without beds, cremation grounds running at full capacity, patients waiting hours and hours for oxygen – watch
@_serajali_
's ground report on Delhi's devastating COVID-19 second wave. via
@thewire_in
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with Stan Swamy in Taloja jail, has written a scathing letter accusing the authorities of ignoring Swamy’s deteriorating health and denying treatment even when he was rapidly slipping. |
@sukanyashantha
via
@thewire_in
Mumbai's Arthur Road jail is supposed to house 804 prisoners; it currently has nearly 2,800. Now, 77 prisoners and 26 staffers have tested positive for COVID-19, reports
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
“They raided the entire colony, and then needed an excuse. If they were really looking for minors, wouldn’t the action have been more directed?” A Nagpur police raid led to arbitrary arrests, detained children and a miscarriage in custody. via
@thewire_in
A
@JPAL
study has found that during the Jharkhand govt's drive to link the PDS with Aadhaar, about 88% of the ration cards cancelled belonged to real beneficiaries and not 'ghosts'. via
@thewire_in
After a year of balancing duties and battling hurdles, women farmers are now rejoicing. But they know the job is not done yet, reports
@pawanjotkaur_
. via
@thewire_in
"Murali Sir was the guardian at the gates of The Wire, its Dwarapala. And we will remain strong knowing his spirt is still watching out for us."
@svaradarajan
puts into words what all of us at
@thewire_in
are feeling today.
Academics fashionably claim to maintain an “objective distance” from the people and subjects they study; Gail Omvedt, however, became one with them, writes
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale have moved the Bombay HC against Devendra Fadnavis, Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide, for shifting blame for the Bhima Koregaon violence on January 1, 2018, reports
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
“Eyewitnesses said he ended up shooting the footage of the car that was mowing down farmers, which was why my journalist son was shot at.” |
@IsmatAraa
reports from Lakhimpur Kheri. via
@thewire_in
Today is
#WorldPressFreedomDay
but in India, it marks the 575th day of Siddique Kappan’s incarceration for a story he never even got to write on the gang rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Hathras.
An editorial from
@thewire_in
.
"...if there is one thing that counts more than anything else in these troubled times, it is the respect and support of one’s peers and the solidarity that they show at moments of crisis":
@svaradarajan
while receiving the Free Media Pioneer Award 2021.
In September 2019, after a young student passed away in Srinagar, Mudasir reported on how the family could not believe the police's version of events – that Asrar Ahmad was killed by 'stones' and not pellets.
"The world is at the brink of not giving up, of refusing, of resisting. You are that world in a world apart who has shown us to not give up:"
@surajyengde
, Balmurli Natrajan,
@meenakandasamy
,
@sangitz
and Biju Mathew to Dr Anand Teltumbde. via
@thewire_in
What has the much-touted Swachh Bharat Mission really achieved? Over the next 24 weeks,
@thewire_in
will be publishing findings of a study conducted across 27 states, detailing inconsistencies. Read the introduction, by Pragya Akhilesh and Ajay Gudavarthy:
The UP government may be intent on claiming 'love jihad' cases are rising, but its own SIT probe proves otherwise, reports
@IsmatAraa
. via
@thewire_in
“We do not see Priyanka Kharwar and Salamat as Hindu and Muslim, rather as two grown-up individuals who out of their own free will and choice are living together peacefully and happily." via
@thewire_in
“This is not the way our women react when they are ravished,” Justice Krishna S. Dixit observed. How the apparently homogenous category of Indian (or “our”) women is supposed to behave after being raped was not clarified by the court. via
@thewire_in
A container truck has a single long cylindrical body with no air holes or scope for ventilation. On March 31 in Gujarat, 120 labourers – women and children included – were packed into one. Read
@sukanyashantha
's heartbreaking story via
@thewire_in
Retired security officials now can't publish any writings or speak to media on subjects that fall within their former organisations “domain” without prior clearance; those who do could lose their pension,
@svaradarajan
writes. via
@thewire_in
Migrant workers from North 24 Parganas stuck in Mumbai finally found a way to leave for home. But after Cyclone Amphan, many of the homes they were heading towards no longer exist, reports
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
This morning,
@narendramodi
made it seem like the BJP has utmost respect for farmers. These 12 comments from BJP leaders, though, don't support that. via
@thewire_in
"All of us...have the choice of either working toward a shared notion of justice, toward exorcising the pain and hate that gnaws away at our collective memory, or enhancing it." The PM, BJP and RSS are enhancing it, writes Arundhati Roy. via
@thewire_in
Mumbai police is classifying a 24-year-old activist as a 'habitual offender' – a section disproportionately used against marginalised identities – for exercising her constitutional right to protest, reports
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
Rushed verification (or no verification at all) and missing toilets: the government's own data suggests we shouldn't believe that India is open defecation free, reports
@kabira_tweeting
via
@thewire_in
The Supreme Court has rejected the NIA’s plea to stay the default bail granted to activist-lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj. Tomorrow, a special NIA court is to detail the bail conditions. via
@thewire_in
In a significant judgment, the HC held the Maha govt accountable for deaths of Govind Sangaram Chorotiya, Santosh Kalsekar and Vishwajit Debnath while manual scavenging even though they were killed while working on a private contract.
@sukanyashantha
Very, very excited to be working on this project with
@sukanyashantha
, in collaboration with the
@pulitzercenter
! Over the next few months, we will be publishing a series of in-depth reported pieces on
@thewire_in
.
“You have tweeted a lot, there are orders from above, we have to follow them," police told
@PJkanojia
's wife when she asked why he was being arrested, reports
@IsmatAraa
. via
@thewire_in
"Bhagat Singh’s writings convey the message that in times of political repression, an act of speaking truthfully to power through the art and craft of journalism is an act of tangible, historic political intervention." via
@thewire_in
Brilliant article by Shuddhabrata Sengupta on the traditions the detractors of
@LeenaManimekali
and
@MahuaMoitra
have failed to understand, and how transgressing taboos is an important part of Kali worship. via
@thewire_in
As Justice Arun Mishra retires on September 2,
@vvenkatesan
analyses his judicial career in this series. Part 1: How did he become the Supreme Court's most influential judge, whose bench heard most politically-sensitive cases recently? via
@thewire_in
“I would have rather had an ambulance made available for the village to reach the hospital in time than have these meaningless structures built here. At least the state would have saved some precious lives.” via
@thewire_in
|
@sukanyashantha
for
#GRIT
The Madras HC granted bail to foreign Tablighi Jamaat members in Tamil Nadu – so the state government put them in a new detention centre.
@sukanyashantha
reports on how 129 people haven't spoken to their families since April 11. via
@thewire_in
This is a story I did for
#Grit
, reporting from Mainpuri: After 25 years of broken promises, India is counting its manual scavengers. Again. via
@thewire_in
Brinda Karat moves SC against Jahangirpuri demolitions, says under the guise of encroachment removal, a discriminatory and arbitrary drive is being used as a “communal political game plan”. via
@thewire_in
From accidents to stolen pistols, the 'encounter' killings of five of Vikas Dubey's aides over the last few days have several similarities with how the police say Dubey was killed today. via
@thewire_in
In the past two days, MNS workers, in groups of four or five, have conducted illegal “raids” in at least three lower-class settlements in the western Mumbai suburban region, reports
@sukanyashantha
. via
@thewire_in
When Akbaruddin and his family fled Shiv Vihar, he tried to protect their documents. “I quickly collected everyone’s birth certificates, Aadhaar cards and voter ID cards, and hid them in the latrine,” he told
@kabira_tweeting
and me. via
@thewire_in
From an RTI reply,
@sangbarooahpish
, Arup Kalita and Gautam Protim Gogoi have learnt that the Assam government recorded no such purchase of 50k PPE kits from China. via
@thewire_in
Another BIG reason to cheer!
Keeping life first as the motive, we're glad to have imported 50,000 PPE kits from Guangzhou,China. I am happy to receive this special flight along with
@Pijush_hazarika
at
#Guwahati
airport just now. A big reassurance for our doctors & nurses.
How complicated is it to implement a 16-day awareness campaign against gender-based violence? Near impossible, if the record of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development is anything to go by. via
@thewire_in