Freelance multi-platform correspondent for @guardian, @VOANews and @SCMPNews, among others. Email: [email protected]
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One guy claims that a National Law University document shows that @SauravDassss's father is Subir Das, then asks if he has two fathers. The Bhakt couldn’t do an online check to know that #CJP’s Saurav studied only at #AmityUniversity and the #NLU student is someone else entirely.
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Abdul Hafiz, who joined #CJP’s Delhi protest, sent the party a video showing the poor condition of his village school in Bankura, WB. For Hafiz’s “crime” of speaking out, some alleged BJP supporters have beaten his father to death. This is not just shocking—it is horrifying.
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I am sure the charges against the Muslim teachers will collapse under scrutiny; the beef conspiracy claim is implausible. But when their innocence is established, don’t expect @timesofindia to cover the news with anything close to the same fervour.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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I am sure you will find MP @sayani06’s election campaign for her party quite engaging.
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Jitendrakumar Prajapati, an #Indian Uber Eats driver, raped a teenage customer in the UK. He was arrested, pleaded guilty, received 3 years and 9 months in prison and has been served a deportation order, plus lifetime sex offender registration.
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So, the violence between the two communities was triggered after a Hindu youth from a Ram Navami procession removed a green Islamic flag in Murshidabad.
National media is only hyper ventilating on video 1.
They are not showing Video 2
Fact is Video 2 happened FIRST
Then happened what’s unfolding in Video 1
The same template!
#Murshidabad clashes during #RamNavami
Clashes erupted, stone pelting happened
Sec 163 now imposed at Raghunatganj
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14 Muslim men who had Iftar on a boat languish in Varanasi jail in a case that stands on contradictory claims and glaring loopholes. Charges have escalated to extortion -- carrying a 10-year sentence. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
We'll let you be the judge.
Since the victims in this case are #Muslim and the perpetrator is #Hindu, when Kishan gets bail, he will most likely be welcomed with garlands by #Hindutva groups — just like Monu Manesar was greeted on getting bail after burning to death two Muslims, Nasir and Junaid.
Lucknow : Kishan Rawat, a neighbour, has been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of 48-year-old widow Reshma Bano and the killing of her visually impaired 18-year-old son Shadab in Lucknow’s Mohanlalganj area. Rawat has been on the run since the double murder was discovered on Monday night.
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The Hindu procession played a provocative anti-Muslim song—“Mandir yahin banayenge"— in front of a mosque, which clearly sparked the trouble there. Yet this so-called “celebrity journalist” blames Muslims for "acting against" the spirit of Ganga–Jamuni tehzeeb?
Stop turning this into a communal issue.
Similar greetings appear on many food packages and consumer products during Hindu festivals like Dussehra and Deepavali as well. No Muslim has ever bothered to make this an issue.
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Stop spreading misinformation!
“Following a 2021 resolution, the #WestBengal school banned all #Hindu and #Muslim programmes on its campus. It denied permission to hold the Eid-e-Milad. Similarly, the #SaraswatiPuja was not permitted this year, either.
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Barasat Moynagadi School.
Maa Saraswati removed from a school campus. The goddess of wisdom banned from a place of education. That’s where Bengal is now.
Rapists get protection. Bomb makers stay free. But Maa Saraswati idol becomes the “problem.”
Hindu worship gets banned while Muslim appeasement gets budgets.
This is Bengal under Mamata! Let that sink in!
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Green is the colour of the #AIMIM flag. There is nothing wrong with her saying that the area would be filled with her party’s flags next time. Reading this as a call to turn the area into an exclusively Muslim space is a mischievous interpretation of her words.
THEY know what is the plan, Hindus on the other hand are still high on the opium of sarvdharmsamabhav!
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Is #India's #democracy under siege?
Critics say the electoral roll revision is a tool to disenfranchise millions of #Muslims, labeling them 'infiltrators' – driving fear, suicides, and vote theft.
Investigation with @HannahEP, for @guardian:
theguardian.com/world/2025/d…
Some are asking, “What if someone had sold pork patties at an Islamic gathering?” It’s a nonsensical comparison. What pork represents to Muslims is not the same as what chicken means to Hindus. At least 90% of Bengali Hindus who took part in the Gita Path eat chicken regularly.
Sheikh Riyazul sells chicken patties. He was humiliated and beaten at Gita Path programme at Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata. Question to @CPKolkata. When would you arrest these thugs and how would you ensure justice? Parijat, the Durgapur accused is out on bail.
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One thing I have learnt about families of missing Native American girls and women, during my first year in the United States, is that no matter what they have been through, they will warmly welcome you into their homes, lives and stories -- even if you are an outsider like me.
When Native American teen Leanne Hausberg went missing from her Brooklyn, New York home in 1999, the New York Police Department was quick to label her a runaway, despite her family insisting otherwise.
26 years later, Leanne's case is still awaiting justice, like thousands of other Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) across the United States.
Read my investigation for @guardian here: theguardian.com/global-devel…
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An honor to be longlisted by @rorypecktrust alongside some of the most extraordinary independent reporters globally. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees illegally detained in India still continue to live through the abuses Hamida Begum did. Their stories matter. #RoryPeckAwards
The #RoryPeckAwards Martin Adler Prize recognises a local #freelance journalist whose reporting for domestic or international media has significantly contributed to newsgathering in their own country.
We're so proud to announce the 2025 Martin Adler Prize longlist.
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What a diseased, rotten society we have been reduced to that a hindu neighbour can murder a seven-year-old muslim boy, stuff his dead body into a gunny bag and hang him from a gate just so he could teach a lesson to the ‘Mullahs.’
Repeat this in your heads - 7 year old child.
This is what hateful rhetoric does - it normalises hatred, violence & cruelty.
This is not a momentary lapse in humanity. It is terror, plain and deliberate - rehearsed in cruelty, protected by silence, legitimised by impunity.
