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Journalist @thecaravanindia | amrita_2021 @protonmail .com

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🚨 Kanhaiya Kumar’s election campaign in North East Delhi had temple visits, tilaks but no mention of the 2020 anti-Muslim violence in the constituency. But being a Congressi won’t help him. AAP and Manoj Tiwari’s incompetence may. From my latest report:

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Kanhaiya Kumar’s new avatar as a Rahul Gandhi clone

The Congress candidate for North East Delhi adopted many of the tactics his current mentor has tried in the past, making no mention of the 2020 communal violence.

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashutosh Varshney, Sadanand Dhume, Gurcharan Das—the liberals who loved Modi. Always a good day to go back to this piece by the fantastic Praveen Donthi.

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The liberals who loved and lost Narendra Modi

Sadanand Dhume, Ashutosh Varshney, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gurcharan Das once shielded Modi from his detractors. Now all four have joined their ranks.

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I think of this cover image everytime Delhi Police is in the news with respect to the 2020 and 1984 communal violence. (From The Caravan's May 2022 issue: )

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If Rahul Gandhi simps on this website could ask him if and when he will actively speak about hate crimes against Muslims, that would be great. Brandishing the Constitution is not enough.

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“He was a Muslim. Hindu brothers were passing by, told him to say, ‘Jai Shri Ram.’ He refused. ... Public gathered there. While thrashing him, they put him inside.” “Inside what?” “Inside the car. Then burnt it.” “And after that?” “After that, what? Nothing. He burned.”

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A 22-year-old resident of Karawal Nagar, who said he participated in the #DelhiViolence , described in detail how he and his Hindu companions attacked Muslims, with encouragement from the Delhi Police. @yuva_journalist and @shahidtantray report.

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Reported on the recent “apolitical” Delhi University litfest at Ramjas college, which seemed designed to promote and defend the main talking points of the RSS and the BJP, especially on caste and history. Read now:

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By the Right, for the Right: A day at the DU Literature Festival

The first edition of the Delhi University Literature Festival seemed designed to promote and defend the main talking points of the RSS and BJP.

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2 years

A day after the Hashimpura massacre of 1987, 72 Muslims were killed in Maliana. This Saturday, 39 accused in the Maliana massacre case were acquitted—a development that appears as underreported as the case itself. An old video on the Maliana case:

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The Maliana Massacre: 35 years on, the wait for justice | The Caravan

On 23 May 1987, the Provincial Armed Constabulary killed 72 Muslims in Maliana, a small town on the outer edge of Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh. The dead included...

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4 years

@SaketGokhale @thecaravanindia Thank you! Link to buy/gift a subscription: Link to contribute: True media needs true allies.

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Don't go by the headline. Piece includes this: “He said a new system will be put in place, under which any woman moving out of her house for her work will register herself at the local police station, and she will be tracked for her safety.”

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A reminder that three journalists were physically attacked in the capital on 11 August. They filed two complaints with the Delhi Police immediately and we still do not know of any FIR being registered in the matter.

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#JUSTIN : After FB policy head Ankhi Das submitted a complaint against a few FB & Twitter users for "issuing violent threats" after the WSJ article came out, #DelhiPolice has registered an FIR in the matter. #Facebook

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Looking to move into a pre-occupied flat in South Delhi in November—single room with an independent washroom and lots of sunlight ideally. Budget: 10k–15k, ideally. Free with me: Caravan copies, good Punjabi music and angst about Indian politics. DMs open. Pls RT!

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4 months

Not surprising that residents are protesting a Muslim woman getting a flat in Vadodara—Gujarat has had a long history of working towards causing spatial segregation on religious lines. A good piece from 2019 by @nileenams to understand:

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The Gujarat state is enforcing communal segregation and criminalising property transfers

The Gujarat state has weaponised the Disturbed Area Act, aimed at stopping communal violence, to cause spatial segregation on between Hindus and Muslims.

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6 months

“For the first time, a private art gallery has showcased such a big exhibition, exclusively on the Dalit theme, by a Dalit painter,” JNU prof YS Alone told me. On Vikrant Bhise, Ambedkarian aesthetics and the art world:

India's caste issues given rare spotlight in Noida exhibition

Vikrant Bhise’s paintings at Anant Art gallery explore the suffering of marginalised communities and depict anti-caste leaders like Ambedkar

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At least 5 people have been lynched in Punjab over alleged “beadabi”—sacrilege. No Sikh or political authority has vociferously condemned these killings, all instead creating alarm. @jatinder_tur breaks down the impact of “beadabi” in the last decade:

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The religious paranoia behind Punjab’s sacrilege killings

The political demise of the Akali Dal—in which the mishandling of sacrilege played a huge role—paved the way for Amritpal's victory in Lok Sabha elections in 2024.

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5 years

All those who are celebrating the effective abrogation of #Article370 , all those who are "hailing Modi and Shah" for their "bold" move—read about what you stand for. Don't pretend to care about Kashmiri lives. You care about the land.

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At the SMHS hospital in Srinagar, a five-year-old girl, Muneefa Nazir, was lying on a bed with her right eye bandaged. She had been brought the previous day at 6.30 pm from Safakadal after a CRPF jawan hit her with a stone with his catapult. #Kashmir

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I don’t understand people who say that journalists are spreading negativity by reporting what’s happening or sharing news of the unfolding tragedy—it’s needed, we need to register this. Especially as it looks like this govt is keen on hiding the scale of the crisis. +

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2 years

The vision S Gurumurthy has shaped is “central to the RSS’s core tenets and his own upbringing: the establishment of Brahmin influence over political and economic life.” The Caravan’s new cover—a brilliantly reported profile by ⁦ @sujajourno ⁩!

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How S Gurumurthy brought the Sangh to politics and economics

How S Gurumurthy brought Hindu nationalism to India's economic planning, news and industrial boardrooms, to redesign them in the image of Brahmin supremacy.

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At least 3 suspected and confirmed COVID patients died in the 3 hours that The Caravan spent at the hospital. The staff said, between 8 and 10 people die at the hospital every day. Yet, official data recorded only 1 COVID death in the district on 15 April and only 1 on 16 April.

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Three hours in an understaffed Bharuch hospital with dying COVID-19 patients @chahat_rana1 reports: #COVID19 #Gujarat

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“96% of sedition cases filed against 405 Indians ... over the last decade were registered after 2014, with 149 accused of making ‘critical’ and/or ‘derogatory’ remarks against Modi, 144 against Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Yogi Adityanath.”

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“Gujarat-based Sikh farmers identified the group that met the [Modi] as comprising Jugraj Singh Raju ...of the BJP’s Kutch unit ...and his companions. ‘Whenever the BJP needs to show Sikh farmers’ support, Raju and his friends appear.’” Super interesting piece by @shivinder1986 .

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Gujarat’s Sikhs call out Modi’s pro-Sikh posturing, cite his past actions in Kutch @shivinder1986 reports:

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On 26 November, India’s Constitution Day, diasporic advocacy groups organised a roundtable on the question, “Is India becoming a fascist state?” The event was attended by politicians, researchers and activists from Australia, the US and the UK. My report:

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And this, from Sept 2020, on the Delhi Police and BJP: A complainant wrote that she heard a police officer tell Kapil Mishra over the phone, “Don’t worry, we will strew the streets with their dead bodies such that it will be remembered for generations.”

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From a Mar 2019 profile of Rona Wilson: “... he told me... mobile phones were being used as listening devices. I cannot fathom that someone like this is going to go around town writing letters and asking for ammunition as if it is a grocery shopping list.”

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When the country is grappling with COVID-19, UP Police is reportedly planning to demarcate "hotspots" for areas which may be seeing illegal slaughtering. From CAA to harassing Muslims during a pandemic, UP Police seems to keep on reiterating that there's no end to its inhumanity.

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“The doors of our house, utensils, stove��they broke everything.” Matim had asked one of them, “Sir, what has happened?” The policeman swore at him and replied, “Let me show you.” They took him to the police station. @SunilK07638741 and Zubair Khan in:

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2 years

My OpIndia profile is finally out! An in-depth look at OpIndia’s origins, the people who have led it and its war on journalism. Please read! From Nupur J Sharma’s “sweetheart,” for friends, foes, trolls and everyone in between :)

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The toxic business of OpIndia’s anti-journalism

Established a few months after Modi came to power, OpIndia has emerged as a key foot soldier in his government’s information wars.

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“That there has been no justice for the Maliana victims 35 years on is a comment on both our criminal-justice system and the seriousness with which the state machinery seeks to hold to account people responsible for the targetted killing of 72 Muslims.”

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The absence of justice for the Maliana massacre is a blot on our democracy

The testimonies of survivors detail the horror of the anti-Muslim violence in Maliana in 1987.

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4 months

Perhaps the most in-depth investigation into voter suppression allegations in UP — from getting several first-person accounts to examining official data, @sighyush has left no stone unturned to decode what happened in Farrukhabad. Sign in and read:

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‘Lathis, threats and gunshots’: How BJP wrested a narrow victory in UP

On May 13, when polling took place in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party alleged bogus votes were being cast in Khiri Pamaran village.

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2 years

“This new so-called Hindu view of the past is a concocted view of the past, it is not a Hindu view of the past and it is not the Indian view of the past.” @shahidtantray ’s latest interview with GN Devy on why one cannot wishfully rewrite history.

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The plan is to depict a heroic regime: GN Devy on attempts to rewrite history

Devy says that there is no such thing as Hindu history, but the RSS has a view of Indian history in which only Vedic and Sanatan philosophies are everything.

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5 months

Kuch zaada hands off nahi ho gaya

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#BREAKING #SupremeCourt refuses to consider a plea to direct the Election Commission of India to publish the booth-wise absolute numbers of voter turnout and upload Form 17C copies on its website. SC says "hands-off" approach is needed in the middle of the election process. SC

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There is an increasing acceptance of Modi’s ways. Perhaps this is why, just weeks after characterizing India as a country without religious discrimination, he could brazenly label Muslims as “infiltrators” at an election rally. Wrote for @ForeignPolicy :

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The Chilling of the Fourth Estate After 10 Years of Modi

The Indian prime minister has demonstrated that there is only one form of journalism he likes.

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4 years

Super proud! Subscribe and support The Caravan, friends. Keep us going. Links 👇

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The Caravan has been awarded the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism for 2021 by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Read the statement in full here:

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2 years

I also want to thank @thecaravanindia team for being as supportive as they were, and everyone who in the past few months tried to reason with trolls who could not see how reporting is done! (I know I barely have any followers, but posting coz the gratitude is sincere.)

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2 years

My OpIndia profile is finally out! An in-depth look at OpIndia’s origins, the people who have led it and its war on journalism. Please read! From Nupur J Sharma’s “sweetheart,” for friends, foes, trolls and everyone in between :)

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3 years

“A group of 15 stopped the car and started abusing the passengers. They shouted ‘maar mulle ko’ — Kill Muslims— and lynched Khan.”

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4 years

Support The Caravan.

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“Dr Basil Purdue, a pathologist registered with the UK Home Office who examined the video footage and postmortem, said: ‘To me this is one gunshot wound, possibly two, unless proved otherwise.’“

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@AroonDeep I hope this is an indication that people want the option of watching good content rather than repetitive and misogynistic masala movies.

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5 years

You need to see this.

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#DelhiViolence | Since 23 February, armed Hindu mobs have targeted Muslim areas in northeast Delhi, including Babarpur, Maujpur and Vijay Park—each ruled by the BJP. At Vijay Park, some residents said they saw police chanting “Jai Shri Ram.” @SagarChoudhary_ and @shaheen_ahmed1 :

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3 years

This Independence Day, choose to support independent media. We need to preserve our freedoms. Keep The Caravan going.

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3 years

On this occasion, give the gift of great journalism to your friends and family. Click here to purchase gift subscriptions of The Caravan, India's finest long-form magazine: #TrueMediaNeedsTrueAllies

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Mehta’s nobody was left without oxygen comment, Adityanath’s NSA threat for those who spoil the atmosphere, data fudging—these are strong indicators that this govt doesn’t want a record of the scale of the crisis. This is a failure. You need journalists to show it, call it out.

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4 years

An excellent story by @nileenams on everything you need to know about the Adani coal mine in Australia, its parallels with the company’s mining operations in India, and why its critics—its many, many critics—say the mine may not benefit Adani himself.

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To fight the humans of Hindutva, be like Humans of Hindutva. Subscribe to The Caravan: You can also support our work with a contribution:

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I interviewed Akshyeta Suryanarayan, who has led a new study on lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India. Suryanarayan discussed the significance of the study and how to interpret its findings. Read here:

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New study further suggests animal meat, possibly cattle, consumed in Indus civilisation

New study on lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India shows a dominance of animal products used in ancient ceramic vessels.

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3 years

Would you not want history to remember what India went through? What happens when you don’t pay attention to healthcare? When your leaders fail to pay heed enough warnings to be prepared? When you don’t hold your leaders accountable? You need journalists to document this.

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Press Club of India: "Pending enquiry of Mr Penkar's very serious allegations against the named ACP (whom we are not naming in the interest of fair play), we call on the CP to suspend this hubris-filled, irresponsible, official who appears unfit to don the police uniform."

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Noticeboard | Delhi Police would appear to have exceeded UP Police in vileness: Press Club of India Read the statement in full here: #PressFreedom

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Extremely important report by @SagarChoudhary_ The CBI’s claim before the SC that no children were murdered in the #muzaffarpur shelter-home case defied the witness statements the agency had recorded in September 2018.

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Several victims told the CBI in 2018 that they saw Brajesh Thakur, the owner of the Muzaffarpur shelter home, kill a mentally disabled girl. Yet, the CBI told the SC that no murders took place. @SagarChoudhary_ reports:

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Bhagat Singh’s azaadi—freedom—was not limited to the expelling of the British; instead he desired azaadi from poverty, azaadi from untouchability, azaadi from communal strife, and azaadi from every form of discrimination and exploitation. By @irfhabib

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Bhagat Singh and the politics of nationalism

There was more to Bhagat Singh than just shaheedi. Singh was committed to inquilab, but not merely a political revolution.

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4 years

A police official threatened to beat them with a steel rod. The police also said things like, “Aapko pata nahi hai ki desh badal gaya hai?”

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Penkar has filed a complaint to SN Shrivastava, Delhi's commissioner of police.

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Arnab’s arrest may be politically motivated, but Adnya’s account deserves to be heard. As she says, “If he has rights to speak whatever shit he wants to, so do I have rights to at least give the facts of what reality and what harassment my family has gone through.”

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“I am Arnab, I will show you what I can do”: Adnya Naik on threats faced by her father @aathira_vk interviews:

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Before the Delhi assembly elections, Tanweer Fazal told @ahanpenkar and me that the AAP will never directly oppose the BJP, it will “only position themselves in the same tangent, with a different level of conviction.” Something to think about. #DelhiViolence

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“If you look at the AAP, they have never vocalised their movements towards the oppressed ... It has always been a party of the elite”: Tanweer Fazal, a professor at the University of Hyderabad @ahanpenkar and @singhamritaa on AAP's posturing on the CAA:

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@GabbbarSingh Flight board karne se pehle Kapaalbharti karna padega.

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Three Brahmin men assaulted and killed Shalu, a pregnant woman from the Kahar community, in Uttar Pradesh on 5 Oct, according to her husband, Manoj Kashyap. He said that the men assaulted him and his wife because he had used a public handpump being a member of a backward-caste.

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“If this is not about caste, then what is it?” In UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri, Kahar man says Brahmins killed pregnant wife over use of handpump @shahidtantray and @SunilK07638741 report:

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(The two “ideally”s are hurting my eyes as well, pls don’t reject me because of them.)

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How did the likes of Atul Dodiya and Riyas Komu participate in this propaganda? My latest—based on conversations with about 30 from the art world—revealed how patrons like Kiran Nadar, of KNMA, (centre) enable such art of least resistance: 🔗

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Our April issue is out! Subscribe to read and support, friends. :)

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In the April issue—The struggle to publish BR Ambedkar's writings; The fight for secularism in Nepal; How the Congress’s liberal critics miss its problems; The Election Commission as biased referee; Why we need to read Periyar; and more. Subscribe now:

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Amid all this, forgot to share: I interviewed the Oxfam CEO @AmitabhBehar on how COVID-19 and the lockdown exacerbated the already existing social inequalities in India, and how Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and women have been hit the hardest in the pandemic.

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Without free vaccination, majority of Indians could miss vaccine: Oxfam India’s Amitabh Behar

On 25 January, Oxfam India released a report titled “The Inequality Virus.” It highlighted the disproportionate impact of the virus on marginalised communities such as Dalits, Adivasis, and women.

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On the arrests of pro-India politicians: “What couldn’t be achieved in more than 70 years by the separatists, the BJP government achieved in one stroke,” a journalist told Donthi. “These pro-India political leaders have been the firewall against the azadi and Pakistan sentiment."

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“This relationship with India was built on #Article370 . Now that it is gone, we are azad. Now, it is a naked occupation.” Praveen Donthi reports from #Kashmir :

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Even though Twitter has now restored the account of @fsmi_in —and admitted that it made an error in locking it—its policies remain the same. Here’s a look at how opaque social-media policies can allow private organisations to report any account that can adversely affect business:

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Is the private sector gaming social-media policies to silence security researchers, critics? @singhamritaa reports:

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More than three days ago, a mob assaulted three of out journalists in northeast Delhi. Two complaints were filed with the police, which have not been registered as FIRs. #StopMediaLockdown

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Worth noting that the Delhi Police has not even summoned a BJP MLA who faces multiple allegations of rioting during the #DelhiViolence . This, when it appears comfortable in arresting activists for merely organising protests.

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When asked for a response to the allegations against him, the BJP MLA Mohan Singh Bisht said he did not know anything about Mushahid's case. Bisht added that he had not been summoned by the Delhi Police for any investigation concerning the Delhi violence.

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Please read this super important story by @sighyush

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Do you remember this video? It went viral in April. It shows a Lok Sabha candidate in Gandhinagar sobbing and complaining that he was "hijacked" by "Amit Shah's people". His name is Jitendra Chauhan. I tracked him down and a story began unfolding. @scroll_in . 1/10.

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Little to say about how infuriating and saddening this is. Ahan is the fourth Caravan journalist to be attacked in three months. And the DELHI POLICE attacked him KNOWING that is a journalist. If the police assaults journalists, where are they supposed to go for justice?

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Today afternoon, Delhi Police assaulted @thecaravanindia ’s staffer Ahan Penkar while he was reporting. ACP Ajay Kumar kicked & slapped Penkar inside the Model Town station premises. Penkar repeatedly told the police that he was a journalist and prominently displayed his press ID.

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“Whatever we do is called extreme.” Powerful video report by @shahidtantray .

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On the Line: Determined to protest agri-laws, farmers gather at Delhi’s Singhu border “The farmers who do agriculture are today sitting on the streets,” Tejpal Khatkar, a farmer, said. “This is the politics of the nation. This is Modi’s politics.” @shahidtantray reports.

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📢 Deadline extended! 📢 The Caravan is looking for a social-media editor. Apply by 7 January 2023. Details here:

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🚨Pro-Khalistan radical Amritpal Singh is out on parole and will take oath as a Punjab MP today. Curcial to reiterate that his political career so far seems to have suited the BJP the most, as @jatinder_tur has reported over 3 stories. 1/3, from 2023:

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Amritpal’s sudden rise follows a script from Punjab’s past

The sudden rise of Amritpal, a self-styled preacher who mimics Bhindranwale, is sending ripples of disquiet in a state which is no stranger to insurgent violence.

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My report on Anand Teltumbde's unlawful arrest. via @thecaravanindia

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Why are angry Dalits recalling a Delhi sultan to protest the demolition of a bhakti saint’s temple? via @scroll_in

Why are angry Dalits recalling a Delhi sultan to protest the demolition of a bhakti saint’s temple?

They claim that the plot on which the shrine stood was gifted to the sect by Sikandar Lodi six centuries ago.

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As Kiran Nadar wins a #PadmaShri , here’s my story on why patrons like her cower to the government and weild a disproportionate amount of power in the art world. If Nadar bends to the government, so do big artists. And Nadar has, on occasion, bent. Read:

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How corporate patrons enable the art of least resistance

Participants of Jana Shakti, an NGMA exhibition marking 100 episodes of Mann Ki Baat, were motivated by a question: who could afford to say no to Kiran Nadar?

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To all women in the media: it's an earth shattering day and it seems like there are more to come. But we've come so far, and done so well. Hang in there. #timesup

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If you read one thing today, please let it be this fantastically reported and horrific story by @jatinder_tur in @thecaravanindia ’s latest issue. Screams from the Army Post:

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@shreyilaanasuya The woman card? He needs to realise that speaking up as a woman in an industry as patriarchal Bollywood IS an achievement.

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this country is on fire. if you can't ask for accountability right now, if you can't question your leaders, you are not doing enough.

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On the Spot: @shahidtantray and @cknotok ’s video report from Delhi’s Old Seemapuri cremation ground #COVID19India

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Read this by @SagarChoudhary_ . Gave me goosebumps. “If I perhaps hadn’t done that, then their power”—referring to Dalits—“would have magnified. The government has already given them so much power, it has accepted defeat in front of them”

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Son of a gun: Bharat Bandh shooter admits to firing at Dalits, says union minister Narendra Tomar protected him. @SagarChoudhary_ reports: #MadhyaPradeshElections2018

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Journalist Dharmendra Singh said when the cops were pulling him, Punia was somewhere behind him. “I want to thank Mandeep for this—he said, ‘How can you do this with a media person?’ Raising this point, he came ahead. Then whatever you saw in the video happened to him.”

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“After witnessing the violence on 29 Jan, Punia came to my house for the night. He narrated the entire episode and was sad about what he had witnessed. ‘Sacchai bahar aani chahiye, Prabhjit’—The truth should come out, Prabhjit—he told me.” @Prabhtalks in:

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Wondering if this qualifies as a confession ...

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Yesterday, in an affidavit to the Delhi HC, the #DelhiPolice termed the Jamia violence a “well-planned incident” and dismissed the need for a separate inquiry into it. “The intention of the mob was to disrupt law and order situation in the area,” it wrote. From Dec 2019:

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@AroonDeep Well. I hope someday people want the option of watching good content rather than repetitive and misogynistic masala movies. 😂

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Irrespective of where you lie between the “idea of India is losing” to “the idea of India is lost” spectrum, it is certain that now that this is done, the rest of the way to a Hindu Rashtra—if we aren’t it already—will be a cakewalk.

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“Like many minors from tribal communities in her district, she migrated to a neighbouring district to work as a domestic worker in an upper-caste household so that she could afford to get educated.” Important story by @KimiColney and @mhassanism . Do read.

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“Look at the number of older farmers here, do you think they are terrorists?” An image by @shahidtantray , from his and @ahanjpenkar ’s new piece on the farmers’ protest at the Kundli border:

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Noting that the post was reserved for a SC candidate, Harjit Bhatti said, “I was the only eligible candidate against that seat, if I was forcefully kept outside then the post will remain vacant for the coming time and might go to an unreserved category.”

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Doctor says AIIMS refused him a job because of his activism for doctors’ welfare

Bhatti was part of a Twitter campaign on the shortage of PPE for medical staff.

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North East Delhi has again chosen Manoj Tiwari—incompetent even by accounts of BJP supporters, who just last month shared a stage with those accused in the anti-Muslim violence. The alternative, well, did not even bring up the violence in his campaign.

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Kanhaiya Kumar’s new avatar as a Rahul Gandhi clone

The Congress candidate for North East Delhi adopted many of the tactics his current mentor has tried in the past, making no mention of the 2020 communal violence.

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Media is manipulated in more ways than one, friends. Our media issue will help understand how and why.

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In the media issue—How the media becomes an arm of the government; Urdu media for the Hindu Rashtra; Wikipedia’s edit wars; Smoke and mirrors on Chinese border incursions; A purge at progressive Tamil news channels and more. Available now: #TheMediaIssue

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“... newspapers—while suppressing stories, pursuing anti-Pakistan agendas, over-relying on anonymous government sources, and taking an indifferent attitude to the corroboration of facts—seemed to hide behind the aegis of national interest.”

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“An ongoing health survey by the Kerala government is actually designed and steered by the Canada-based Population Health Research Institute, according to emails and letters exchanged by health officials and researchers involved in the project.” Excellent piece by @nileenams .

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When news broke that the LDF had rebranded the UDF's health survey, the state government claimed that it was not sharing any data with PHRI. But emails disclosed to The Caravan by a whistleblower suggest that the government appears to be lying.

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Start this year with @EramAgha ’s first cover for The Ca-Ca-Ca-Caravan!

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The January issue—Shah Rukh Khan’s silent rebellion; Arputhamammal’s quest to free her son; India’s dangerous boasts about fighting Pakistan; Narendra Modi’s outsized image; Memorialising Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s legacy; and more. Read now:

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Reported on how a majority of a paper co-authored by Balraj Chauhan—a member of the home ministry’s Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws, which supposedly endeavours to recommend reforms to India’s criminal laws “in a principled, effective, and efficient manner”—is plagiarised.

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Majority of 2011 paper co-authored by criminal law committee member is plagiarised @singhamritaa reports:

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This independence day, support independent journalism. Subscribe to @thecaravanindia , gift subscriptions if you can.

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Gift your friends and family a subscription of The Caravan, the finest long-form narrative journalism in India, today. Support, subscribe and gift The Caravan: #SaveJournalism #TrueMediaNeedsTrueAllies

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🚨 Pro-Khalistan Amritpal Singh remains jailed but is contesting from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab, enjoying a lot of support. @jatinder_tur reports on the murky details of his candidature and how his political career seems to have suited the BJP the most:

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The men behind Amritpal Singh’s election campaign from jail

The pro-Khalistan radical, currently jailed in Dibrugarh, is running as an independent in the Akali bastion of Khadoor Sahib, with support from workers of all major parties.

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A good day to revisit this profile of Ranjan Gogoi. “The senior advocate Chander Uday Singh said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, the less said about Gogoi, the better. He’s an unmitigated disaster, one of the worst chief justices we’ve ever had.’”

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@AroonDeep I think that's a generalisation. Platforms like Amazon Prime and Netflix are increasingly creating quality Indian content because there IS a demand. We just need to wait a while for market forces to do their job.

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My work first got published when I was a clueless 17 yr old. Could barely believe @YouthKiAwaaz felt my article was worth reading! Have learnt SO MUCH from YKA. Can never thank them enough for telling young people every day that their voice matters. #10YearsOfYKA #HappyYKADay

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A senior Apni Party leader told @shahidtantray that the outfit had been created on the directions of Ajit Doval. Another senior BJP leader said, “We have been told to remain silent and support PC and Apni Party.” On the “proxies” in the Kashmir LS polls:

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The BJP’s “proxies” in the Kashmir Lok Sabha elections

As Srinagar votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections—the first time since the abrogation of Article 370—read why Apni Party and People's Conference are called the BJP's "proxies" in Kashmir.

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Those in the NGO sector say that the FCRA amendments introduced by the Modi government in September have limited “their ability to access and distribute crucial foreign aid at a time when India islooking for every bit of help to fight the crisis.”

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BBC journalists spoke about the organisation’s quest for maximising reach on the directions of the London bureau. “Gore lafaazi bakwaas karte hai,” one said. “Journalism has been compromised in the bargain.” Read @shahidtantray ’s new superb story now:

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The illusion of BBC India’s independent journalism

India: The Modi Question was made by BBC News in the UK without involvement of the bureau in India. But the BBC India’s editorial lapses in recent years appear jarring.

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#Article370 | Today marks two years since the Indian government abrogated Kashmir’s special status by reading down Article 370 of the Constitution. The Caravan’s ground reports from #Kashmir :

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Never looked at Lalu from this perspective. Thank you for this, @Sourodipto1 @YouthKiAwaaz

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Please read @nileenams 's in-depth report on how the Gujarat government weaponises the Disturbed Areas act to cause spacial segregation in Gujarat. Some very very bizarre, and disturbing, information about how the real estate market works in Ahmedabad in this piece.

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The Gujarat government is enforcing communal segregation and criminalising property transfers @nileenams reports:

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“The role of the photographer is to suggest that this is a farce ... You cannot really partition India and Pakistan just like that. You can do it in a library, but lives are at stake.” I think about this piece every Independence Day.

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The mystery of an iconic Partition photograph

The origin of David Douglas Duncan's now iconic photograph of BS Kesavan in the Imperial Secretariat Library is subject to contention.

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@RanaAyyub @thecaravanindia @vinodjose Link to buy/gift a subscription of The Caravan: Link to contribute: … True media needs true allies.

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“I could clearly see the hatred in their eyes, the communally frenzied eyes. I wore a turban as a Sikh and they were conscious of my religious identity, too. But their enemy was Shahid (Tantray), a Muslim,” Singh said.

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My love for @SunnyLeone has multiplied. HOW IS SHE SO COOL? via . @NishSwish

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