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Bengal man detained in Rajasthan for two months for allegedly being Bangladeshi. Later, he was expelled to Bangaladesh. The family shown documents proving they have been living in India before 1941 and Sheikh has a birth certificate too. scroll.in/latest/1084902…
ANNOUNCING! A landmark new series from Chowringhee Press. Interviews with 100 translators around the world, working in and out of 60 different languages. In 5 volumes. We’ll be publishing the @harshaneeyam conversations with translators on their work and their craft this year…
𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝟐𝟔 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐘, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟓! #MumbaiRains City was Thrashed with close to 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟒 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. Thousands lost their life. City was closed for days and property worth Billions were damaged. Every Mumbaikar has their story of…
Living in the shadow of glaciers and dams: A Himalayan ticking time-bomb scroll.in/video/1084817/… via @scroll_in
Why a US court rejected Hindu group’s claims that caste discrimination cases violate religious freedom. It noted that the group simultaneously argued that caste discrimination is not a key part of Hindu belief, reports @prajwalmanipal scroll.in/article/108487… via @scroll_in
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If you go by hard evidence, the Modi government’s quest to someone depict normalcy in bilateral ties with China is a sign of weakness, as it is happening on Beijing’s terms. After 11 years of Modi as PM, he can’t blame anyone else for this major failure. I write @ttindia
‘You all are Bangladeshi. You are speaking Bengali means you are Bangladeshi’. Delhi, Gurgaon, Gujarat, Odisha: BJP-ruled states across India are raiding Bengali migrant bastis and accusing workers -- almost always falsely -- of being Bangladeshi. scroll.in/article/108446…
Today, we nine Nepali citizens wrote to Prime Minister KP Oli demanding that Govt. of Nepal have a clear position against the genocide being conducted by PM Netanyahu against Palestinians of Gaza. Nepal should have the confidence of its history and society to do so. @RoiSimyoni
🚨A 2023 glacial lake burst wrecked a dam, flooding Sikkim & Bengal. As the dam is rebuilt, Teesta swells every monsoon, its bed choked with silt from that first disaster. People are still living in relief centers. scroll.in/article/108394… supported by: @pulitzercenter
1000s of migrant workers are fleeing the city. They are going back to Assam and West Bengal. Police say they are not being detained but just held in “holding centres.” Somehow, “Gurugram city is getting dirty” gets more media attention and public outrage.
Should India be building hydropower dams in the Himalayas where melting glaciers can cause devastating floods? In 2023, a glacial lake outburst flood in Sikkim destroyed a dam and killed 57 people living downstream. As the government rebuilds the dam, Scroll travelled to…
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…
On Prithviraj Road, a memorial to an aircrash in 1972.
Why newly-independent India barred an official from accepting a Cuban honour. @AjayKamalakaran explains scroll.in/magazine/10847… via @scroll_in
Mumbai’s ghost foot over bridges built spending millions of public money. Walked every bridge over the past four weeks or so, waited, studied and then compiled this. Read this explosive reality (share.google/8P0Av8ZO50vWCj…)