- 500 NGOs paid Rs 22 cr in penalties for filing annual returns late during pandemic

- 65 NGOs lost entire foreign donation to such penalties

Manu Konchady’s analysis of 5 yrs of govt data until 2021. From 2022, govt stopped making such data public

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Sacrality once drove the conservation of sacred groves in Kerala. Now, waning beliefs, migration and expanding infrastructure is jeopardising these biodiversity hotspots. In my first for The Christian Science Monitor, I write- csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Sou…

Remembering Abhijit Waghre's work on caste, water and accessibility this #worldwaterday

After a long battle and years of efforts to #SaveHasdeo 17 villages received CFRR titles in forest where previously coal mining was proposed and it also falls under Lemru elephant reserve. Now Gram sabha has the power to protect and conserve forest.
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Independent journalist Greeshma Kuthar Greeshma Kuthar is the joint winner of Chameli Devi Jain Award for her “deeply-researched long-form investigative reporting from conflict areas such as Manipur”.

It includes this New Lines Magazine story with Makepeace Sitlhou.
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Good day to remind yourself to invest (time and money) in actual journalism. & yes, I put money where mouth is. Pay for least 2 orgs still doing real news, more if possible. When we say media is the 4th pillar of democracy, it means, without proper journalism, democracy collapses

At #AAD2024 last week in Neemli, met the women journalists whose work I'd long admired.

A new study has uncovered the impact the climate crisis and human disturbance are having on the Himalayan habitats of some of the world's rarest carnivores, Pragathi Ravi reports 🏔️

Read more here ⤵️
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🚨IMPACT: whispers in the corridor that the Union Govt is now scrambling to appoint a new chair before election code of conduct kicks in. Impact of sustained emails, phone calls, RTIs (responses to some of which I'm still appealing) & reporting in the last two months

applying endlessly for things to be met with mostly rejections has brought my brain to this strange point of stockholm syndrome. application writing now makes me calm and cosy. wtf are these self-preserving mechanisms of the psyche?

Ended up going to the Indian Institute for Human Settlements library in Bangalore a few days ago. I know I *shouldn't* be surprised, but the fact that I could just enter, sit and start working in an air-conditioned, comfortable, well-lit space without paying A DIME caught me completely off guard. (1/4)

Always encouraging to see our research reach a wider community.

Here Pragathi Ravi explores our research on the role of megaherbivores as nature-based solutions. With insights from many field experts, the article highlights challenges associated with invasive species management.

Can megaherbivores act as a nature-based solution against the spread of invasive species? With inputs from Ankila Hiremath, Ninad Mungi
and Alok Bang, I write for Roundglass Sustain
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BREAKING: Effective Immediately. The Water Transport Workers Federation of India representing workers at 11 major Indian ports will refuse to load or unload weapons to Israel. This is in solidarity with a call by Palestinian trade unions. India sends $7bn in arms to Israel a year

I witnessed your reporter manhandling Adivasi children and showing gross insensitivity while reporting and I protested about it. At the end we requested for a mention of my name in the story (you were CCed). Which was never given. Your reporter got a RedInk award for it

one of my SOPs recieved about 14 comments about adopting active voice while describing my work ex and academic work. if only my imposter syndrome didn't get inspiration from white media houses reporting the genocide

A reminder that the weaponization of FCRA to target NGOs & organizations protesting the development policies of the state was started by UPA 2. Reaching its logical conclusion under the BJP. Mohabbat ki dukan cannot whitewash INC’s complicity in where we are today.

In urban areas in India, a khap is called a RWA.

As the death toll in Kuno National Park touches 10, here's a story I wrote for The Xylom @[email protected] on bureaucracy and flawed conservation science that clouds the reintroduction project
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'The IMF and the World Bank have systematically contributed to deepening these structural traps by financing and mandating policies that prioritize investments in cash crops for export rather than core crop production to restore food sovereignty.'

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