Independent Journalist | @SOAS alumnus| Former @AIIndia | @risj_oxford 2010-11| Ramnath Goenka Awards, 2008, 09, 12| @SouthAsiaBrown 2019| @PRIOresearch 2020-23
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India has a legal, ethical and moral responsibility to help Rohingya escaping persecution aje.io/y8bub. My piece in @AJEnglish
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As AI companies seek moral guidance from religious leaders, critics argue the real crisis is protecting the dignity and freedoms of people
The Telegraph Online speaks to @lipstickkranti, @sarvapriyananda
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An anthropologist, a journalist and a filmmaker encountered the Naga Hills nearly a century apart. Together, their stories trace a landscape in transition. arijits.substack.com/p/acros…
Spoke with Theja Rio about his debut film that travels from the hills of Nagaland to the Oscars.
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The 31-year-old debutant filmmaker, who explores cultural loss, faith and identity, bringing a little-seen chapter of Naga history to a global audience, shares his story with The Telegraph Online
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Who gets to call Shillong home? New violence rekindles a question as old as the hills
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‘If these hotels come up, Kaziranga will be destroyed.’ In Assam, a community fights for its land
(@senarijit reports)
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In Calcutta, families facing eviction fear not only losing their homes but also being erased from a city they have long called their own. arijits.substack.com/p/the-b…
Extraordinary rainfall. Breached embankments. Riverbed mining. Ecological degradation. What really caused Assam’s worst flooding in recent memory?
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Why Assam floods every monsoon, how this year it is different, and what the way forward is
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In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
—-Bertolt Brecht, 1939
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Get up, stand up: Across the world, dissent gets a remix with humour and digital fluency
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The mangroves of the Sundarbans are screaming for help. The warning could hardly be clearer. In the 2026 Environmental Performance Index which measures 177 countries across 47 indicators, India placed 176th.
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Kicking football in zones of the written off people.
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Wherever conflict uproots communities, football tends to find a way back.
Forty-two years ago, on a winter afternoon in Calcutta, more than 50,000 people packed into Eden Gardens to watch India play Argentina
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In Sundarbans, four men killed by tigers in four days and a miraculous escape that was not to be
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West Bengal has been burning since the BJP swept to power on May 4.
Police have registered 200 FIRs, arrested 433 people, and detained 1,100 more.
500 companies of Central Armed Police Forces remain deployed across the state.
@senarijit reports.
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200+ FIRs. 433 arrests. 1100+ preventive detentions.
6 TMC workers, an aide to the CM, and at least 2 BJP supporters are among those reported killed so far in West Bengal since the election results.
@senarijit unpacks the state's week of violence.
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The new law undermines Supreme Court 2014 judgment on gender self-identification and demotes them to objects of suspicion, say community members including Bengal’s first trans couple
(@senarijit writes)
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‘Ignorant of science’: How India’s Transgender Persons Act punishes a community
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In the world’s largest mangrove forest where big cats and humans coexist uneasily, the death of Abur Ali Molla has triggered a battle not just for survival but justice for his wife, Mahima Molla
(report by @senarijit)
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