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From Delhi to Muzaffarnagar to Roorkee and finally Haridwar and Rishikesh, Jignasa Sinha took the #KanwarYatra route visiting towns & cities that welcome these pilgrims, and the challenges the residents face. Hindustan Times pick of the day. Link: hindustantimes.com/india-news/on-…

Leaving snippets from The Wire article on Bengali migrant labourers. Nazimuddin Mondal says he had furnished his Aadhaar, PAN, and Voter ID to Mumbai police, who allegedly confiscated these documents. His hard-earned wage of Rs7,000 were allegedly taken by BSF personnel. 1/n

Submissions for Protean Issue VI are still open! Interested writers should submit as soon as possible—our available space is filling quickly. Guidelines here: proteanmag.com/submissions/

Jesus and Mary College in Delhi University is organising this stellar national seminar on Birsa Munda on July 29th and 30th. I'll be speaking alongside Professor Virginius Xaxa and Professor Bara, Dr Rahi and Dr Deepali, amongst others. Do join us if you are around. Thanks 🌸

AFFI Condemns the Large Scale of Felling of Apple Trees in Himachal Pradesh The Apple Farmers’ Federation of India (AFFI) expresses its shock and utter dismay at the on-going felling of trees by the Himachal Pradesh (HP) forest department at the instructions of a (1/n)

BREAKING: Bombay HC acquits 7-11 Mumbai local train blast case convicts They will be released from prison, after more than 18 years. A tragedy followed by another tragedy—innocent people being framed in terror cases that don’t hold up in court. 18 years.

For our new feature, our editor @YaminiVijayan spent months speaking to women about their food cravings and aversions during their pregnancies. What fascinated her was how this was shaped by cultural beliefs, where they lived and what they had access to. #PregnancyCravings 1/3

RTI as a 'right to fair trial': After the chargesheet against them was filed in 2007 and the trial began in 2010, the men accused of the train blasts divided topics and sought documents from various authorities. These formed the bulk of their defence.

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Do i know anyone with a contact at the US embassy? would be vv grateful for the connect.

“Most of all, she dusted off literature and made it exciting.” Jerry Pinto remembers Eunice DeSouza.

What does financial inclusion look like for someone who is struggling to get an ID card, let alone a bank loan? And how can we do better in terms of financial services, for low wage migrants? On this podcast, Varun Aggarwal, Founder and Managing Director of Chalo Network, the

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Fakira has an excellent English translation, perhaps the first 'western' (wild west, horses, etc) novel in Marathi; Also with Marathi debates stirring, his play 'Mumbai Konachi?' is a needed revisit, he proposes an urbanist vision of a city for the working people who live here.

The Kerala Story is back in discourse, and so must clarify that the film is a falsehood parading as an emotive fact. They were rapped in the knuckles by the courts for the same—and now are being awarded for the same. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/counte…

Wise words in a piece on how to cope with rejection letters by Kunjana Parashar in Triptych open.substack.com/pub/tblm/p/tri… I like to think about what kind of an ancestor I would like to be. Kunjana Parashar

the difficult truth is that love is worth everything. every hardship and inconvenience makes sense when you get lucky enough to find a good love that makes your life unquestionably, unambiguously better. (O flew back last night & I'm feeling maudlin/resolute.)

"We’re in the era of “prejuvenation”. That’s the term now used for early Botox and other treatments meant not to reverse signs of aging, but to prevent them—before they happen. It's like buying insurance against a wrinkle that doesn’t exist yet" - cracker by Adrija Bose

The Press Club of India, the Indian Women's Press Corps, and Digipub invite you all for an #open-house #public meeting to solicit inputs for the framing of FAQs pertaining to the impact of several restrictive and sweeping provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act,

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