Nitin Sethi
@nit_set
Founding Editor of The Reporters' Collective @reporters_co. Weekend assistant at @LombaKitchen. Email: [email protected]
Statement of @reporters_co on revocation of its tax exempt status.
Tax authorities have revoked our non-profit status, claiming journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise. It severely impairs our ability to do journalism. Our statement: reporters-collective.in/blog/statement…
While there is no definition of LWE, Maharashtra's new public security legislation seeks to allow state police to use LWE as a smokescreen to muzzle all dissent, I argue in Indian Express indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Ingredients that go into the @LombaKitchen special meal this Sunday. And more. From Manipur with love. You can check what's cooking in the tethered tweet. @akoi_Jam
*Lotus leaves from Manipur* ✨ Hi! Tomorrow, @LombaKitchen is preparing a special meal traditionally served during the Kang (Rath Yatra) festival back home. It’s called Kang Khechri — a festive platter of khechri with four other dishes, all wrapped in fragrant lotus leaves.…
Sitting in metropolitan towns we often don't make the effort to read some amazing journalistic work being done by journalists in other parts of the country. I read @SanaEjaz_ from Patna and see her work to be consistently sharp and probing. 👇
बिहार में खुलेआम घूम रहे 73 फर्जी आर्म्स लाइसेंसधारी CBI ने 2022 में इनकी लिस्ट दी थी, लेकिन आज तक कोई कार्रवाई नहीं। पुलिस मुख्यालय भी करवाई से अंजान! #BiharElection #BiharPolice
*Lotus leaves from Manipur* ✨ Hi! Tomorrow, @LombaKitchen is preparing a special meal traditionally served during the Kang (Rath Yatra) festival back home. It’s called Kang Khechri — a festive platter of khechri with four other dishes, all wrapped in fragrant lotus leaves.…


When a court of law talks of anything but law.
"Be Patriots" : Bombay High Court dismisses petition filed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) challenging the Mumbai Police’s refusal to grant permission for a protest at Azad Maidan against the alleged genocide in Gaza, citing India's foreign policy stance. A bench of…
Uttarakhand, over its history, has been blessed by many of its children who walk and travel the mountains to tell its stories. To me, @hridayeshjoshi is one such in our times. He carries the hills in his mind and heart. 👇
आज जिम कॉर्बेट की 150वीं वर्षगांठ है। क्या वन्य जीव संरक्षण की कॉर्बेट की विरासत को हम सहज कर रख पाये हैं। शाम 5 बजे देखिये exclusive वीडियो सीधे कॉर्बेट की जन्मस्थली और उनके बसाये गांव से सब्सक्राइब - ECO N ENERGY TALK (YouTube) youtube.com/@hridayesh1000 #JimCorbett
Have you ever tasted the wide variety of maize/corn that grows in India? Beyond the usual one that floods the market. It's called Chuzaak in Manipuri. @LombaKitchen loot from home this week. Friends and family being kind. Sending us a taste of monsoon. @akoi_Jam

Dr. Sulochana Gadgil, who has just passed away, was one of India's finest climate scientists. Her research over almost five decades greatly enhanced our understanding of the Indian monsoon. After her doctoral work at Harvard and post-doctoral work at MIT, she returned to the…
Yet not a genocide?
What's stunning about this hunger crisis in Gaza is that it is not unfolding in some remote part of the world, allowing leaders to feign ignorance; no, this starvation is in the headlines, on television and much discussed -- yet still the world shrugs and the US is complicit.
रायपुर के नजदीक नालवा स्टील कंपनी की मोतीमपुर सहित 6 गाँव में प्रस्तावित लाइम स्टोन माइनिंग का किसान भारी विरोध कर रहे हैं । पर्यावरणीय स्वीकृति हेतु आज जनसुनवाई भी हो जाएगी और @moefcc इसकी स्वीकृति भी दे देगा । छत्तीसगढ़ में इसी तरह परियोजनाएं लगाई जा रही हैं ।
Friends, applications are open for “The Appan Menon Memorial Trust” Award, a grant of Rs 100,000 for journalists from India & South Asia covering world affairs, development & environment. In 2024, @reporters_co had won this grant. Last date: 12 Sep ammt.co.in/how-to-apply/
To see what kind of investigative journalism will get choked by the DPDP Act, see/read/watch our work over the last 5 years. reporters-collective.in
Modi gov't has legislated the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. It kills investigative journalism in India. The gov't can activate the law any day it wants. Our founding editor @nit_set speaks to @johriamrita and @AnjaliB_ about the new threat to journalism in India 👇.
“The Data Protection Act will kill investigative journalism in the country” - Watch @nit_set of Reporters Collective in conversation with Amrita Johri on जानने भी दो यारों @thewire_in - youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0KfR…
On Ground in Bihar, ECI Writes a Dystopian Fiction Phulkumari Devi sold her rationed rice to get photocopies. Sumitra Devi was asked for her dead parents’ papers and a caste certificate. Gobind Paswan had to submit land records—though all were already on the voters’ list in…
🚨 Hiring Alert for Academic Twitter 🚨 The Global Order Project University has announced the establishment of a Centre for Study of Moral Decay in Societies. It is accepting applications for two tenured positions. Professor and Associate Professor. Applicants should be able…

There is shit and then there is bullshit. And post that 👇
Nagas, Kukis, Mizos (Zo people) etc are all tribals with no literature, high culture, civilization etc. It is the Hindu Ahoms and Hindu Meiteis in the North East who had their own kingdoms, literature, culture and civilization due to being part of broader Arya civilization.
Haryana govt appoints Vikas Barala, harassment accused & BJP leader's son as Asst AG. Important break by @himansshhi Not surprising this comes from a govt which suspended a coach who accused its minister of harassment and which gives parole to Ram Rahim thequint.com/news/politics/…
Another sector. This one gives plenty of cash elbow as well. Same actor. The superb @advait_px reports 👇
bloomberg.com/news/features/… The Adani family's privately held real estate firm Adani Realty has risen up the ranks of India's property market in just a few years. At the heart of its ambitious growth strategy is Mumbai and the multi billion-dollar redevelopment of Dharavi