Tabassum
@tabassum_b
Keen on health, rural & social issues | Journalist with @scroll_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | @ICFJ Fellow| Email: [email protected]
Living in the shadow of glaciers and dams: A Himalayan ticking time-bomb scroll.in/video/1084817/…
Mumbai Train Blast 2006: Not Guilty — After 19 Years One accused died in prison. The others lost families, jobs, and nearly two decades — waiting to prove their innocence. Read the report by Tabassum Barnagarwala here: scroll.in/article/108474…
We continue with our normal lives, meanwhile in Gaza... Picture credit : Reuters
If you read anything today, let it be this: ‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza | Gaza | The Guardian share.google/UGILtUuLXozocB…
Today, the Israeli military massacred more starving Palestinians.
7/11 train blast: Of the 12 acquitted, one's wife delivered a daughter while he was in jail, he never got to know her. Another died in jail waiting for justice.A third's children were stigmatised & could not marry.Another lost career in civil engineering scroll.in/article/108474…
We need more judgements like this: A Kerala judge identifies gender rights of a trans couple to be identified as parents on daughter's birth certificate scroll.in/article/108454…
From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs. I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages, and fully respect international humanitarian law!
In 2018, Bombay papers splashed news of Dr Deepak Amrapurkar's death after falling in a manhole on flooded road. Nothing much has changed in civic infra. Capital Delhi reports similar case of rickshaw driver Read @_Vaishnavi_R 's piece on why cities flood scroll.in/article/108370…
No words. And no contrition from any of the parties responsible for taking care of civic infrastructure. Just silly PR photos in chappals with sticks cleaning sewers in the "Millenium City". @MunCorpGurugram @DC_Gurugram @cmohry @PMOIndia @Suhelseth
Newly launched NCMC card is not user friendly. To top up balance, you can pay online but you need to queue up at counter for balance to get updated. Card doesn't work at monorail, trains, and sometimes in buses Not so seamless travel afterall. @MMRDAOfficial @airtelbank
A surgeon in Gaza provides eye witness testimony that Israeli soldiers are deliberately shooting hungry teenagers.
Across India, over 100 govt hospitals built with public money, with ~30,000 beds and over 1,400 acres of public land in prime areas are being handed over to private entities in the name of PPP PPP=PPT(People Pay Twice)-once to build health infra and then to pay for pvt healthcare
‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ from Ahmedabad in post-Pahalgam crackdown Liyakat Ali’s family members fear he might have been sent to Bangladesh as he has not turned up in two months. @tabassum_b reports scroll.in/article/108396…
‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for mentally ill man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown. @tabassum_b on a man picked up from his Ahmedabad home during a drive against ‘illegal immigrants’. scroll.in/article/108396… via @scroll_in
Watch: ‘Pushed’ into Bangladesh at gunpoint, two Assam residents return to narrate their ordeal scroll.in/video/1083639/… via @scroll_in
The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still thriving, writes @nandiniramnath scroll.in/reel/1083796/t…
Human rights are the most sacrosanct component of a human life, says Judge. Senior citizen with multiple ailments deported to Pakistan, her entire family is in India thehindu.com/news/national/…
