independent journalist.rural, environment. traveller, baker, homeschooling parent.EJEN n NFI fellow. words in Down to earth, Mongabay India.
delhi, Gujarat, Punjab
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When the world is going upside down, keep doing the small things. Homemade shampoo stock for the next 3 months: zero chemical, no new packaging.
ravleen kaur retweeted
Start this morning by saluting Nirupama Tripathy, BLO who stood up & exposed an attempt to delete genuine voters in Odisha’s Dhamnagar Assembly seat.
A salute to her courage, integrity.
Nirupama found at least 227 Form 7 applications seeking deletion of voters’ names uploaded using her credentials without her knowledge.
When she talked to other BLOs it then revealed that several BLO's name was used to upload form 7 seeking deletion of genuine voters.
On September 4, 10 BLOS including Nirupama filed Police Complaint.
And now after a preliminary inquiry, the ECI has suspended SANTOSH KUMAR NAYAK, the EO of the Dhamnagar council and the area’s AERO for the SIR exercise, who used the credentials of BLOs to submit the bulk deletion applications.
And as expected over 90% of these form 7 applications were submitted against Muslim voters of the constituency.
Nirupama has told the @IndianExpress “I shared OTPs with the AERO and his staff at least three times. I thought it’s for verification purposes. When I found out about processing of 227 Form 7s for deletion of voters on my behalf, I spoke to other BLOs, and they said they were seeing a similar situation. This prompted us to take action.”
In Odisha 17.67 lakh voters has been deleted under SIR exercise. The total number of voters in Odisha went down from 3.33 crore before the SIR began to 3.16 crore in the final roll.
Nirupama Tripathy is an anganwadi worker. Deserves a salute and must be rewarded. Though I fear, she may bear the consequences.
SANTOSH KUMAR NAYAK, is India's enemy. Shouldn't he be tried for treason?
ravleen kaur retweeted
Fantastic story by @RitikaChopra__ Do read this if you want to understand how India's Election Commission of India has been reduced to nothing more than a toy.
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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ravleen kaur retweeted
“इंडिया से हो? जो है वैसा ही दिखाना, आप लोग बहुत बढ़ा चढ़ाकर बोलते हो”
ऐसा 2-3 लोगों ने नेपाल आपदा कवर करते हुए बोला।
भारतीय और पत्रकार दोनों के नाते मुझे अच्छा नहीं लगा। लेकिन कई लोगों की हरकते भी ऐसी है, और सनसनी की आदत कि देश विदेश में कोई लतिया दे तो भी बुरा ना मानना मजबूरी होगी।
मैंने पहली बार इंटरनेशनल मीडिया को कई दिन इतने क़रीब से देखा। कोई हड़बड़ी नहीं थी, किसी को मलबे में उतरकर गंभीरता दिखाने की जरूरत नहीं दिखी।
बहुत सारे भारतीय पत्रकार काम कर हैं, सबके कपड़े जूते चप्पल भीगे ख़राब हुए होंगे, लेकिन वो सब सबूत नहीं दे रहे थे कि वो काम कर रहे हैं…
काम करने वाले पत्रकार साथी कई मुश्किल झेलते हैं , अपने साथ भी हुआ लेकिन वो सब गिनायेंगे थोड़े।
आख़िर में कम शब्दों में इतना ही कहूँगा कि ऐसा काम ना करो कि अगली बार लोग तुम्हारे चक्कर में आम पत्रकारों को भी लोग काम ही ना करने दें
#Media #Journalism #Jounalist #Nepal
ravleen kaur retweeted
As cities are bursting at the seams, waste-to-energy (WTE) plants are not the answer to handle the tonnes of waste generated each day. Better waste segregation practices are the urgent need. Great deep dive by @ravleen india.mongabay.com/2026/07/b…
Finally I meet them.Golden Langoor is endemic to lower Assam and Bhutan #beautyaroundme
ravleen kaur retweeted
Courage:
The half-submerged tribal women of MP who lay on pyres and stood beneath nooses,
just to save their rivers, their forests, and their land.
The thousands who marched yesterday in Delhi, asking for accountability.
The girl from Bihar who boarded a crowded general-compartment of a train with 20 rupees in her pocket because she thought showing up matters.
The journalist who ran, coughed, wiped the tear gas off her eyes, and kept reporting.
The young girl, under a rain of batons, asked the police, "Am I not like your child?”
The labourer who sat in solidarity, very aware of the day’s wages he is going to lose.
The young doctors who dressed wounds while being beaten up themselves.
The rickshaw driver who ferried students to the protest for free.
The blind man who couldn’t see the crowd but handed water bottles to everyone.
The strangers who anonymously sent food and the volunteers who served.
The boy from MP, who brought peanuts and an onion in a tiffin box
to a protest that met with batons and tear gas.
The brave student who after being struck on the shin with a baton, asked for another blow.
Those who stood, when standing came at a price.
When overcome by fear, courage was the only option.
History will remember those who looked at a nailed baton in the eye and did not flinch.
Te remind us that our nation was, is and will forever be, of the people.
ravleen kaur retweeted
देश का है कौन?
जब किसान बोला...
कहा गया—
देशद्रोही है।
जब पहलवान बोला...
कहा गया—
ये राजनीति है।
जब छात्र बोला...
कहा गया—
विदेशी साज़िश है।
...
हर बार
चेहरा नया होता है।
लेकिन...
इल्ज़ाम
वही होता है।
...
जो बोले...
वो गद्दार।
जो चुप हो...
वो वफ़ादार।
...
ये कैसा हिसाब है?
ये कैसा न्याय है?
सवाल अगर गुनाह है...
तो...
लोकतंत्र कहाँ है?
...
किसान नहीं...
तो देश का कौन?
पहलवान नहीं...
तो देश का कौन?
छात्र नहीं...
तो देश का कौन?
...
या फिर...
देशभक्ति का मतलब
बस इतना रह गया—
जो सिर झुकाए,
वही अपना।
जो सवाल उठाए,
वो पराया।
ravleen kaur retweeted
Meet Bhagat Singh, who turned 2 this May, and is unlikely to make a mark on this world—unlike his popular namesake, the revolutionary hero from pre-independent India. The child cannot walk because his legs are too thin.
Also meet Aradhya Kumre, 4, who polishes off the last morsels of dal-roti served at the anganwadi. Because she remembers the bare kitchen back home.
This is the story of India’s youngest, belonging the poorest of families, what is on their plates, and how the mighty Indian state has its eyes wide shut.
livemint.com/news/madhya-pra…
ravleen kaur retweeted
We fight for clean air because every child deserves a healthy brain. Now research warns that everyday BPA exposure from plastics may also impair learning and memory. It's time to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals, not wait for another generation to pay the price.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/… via @timesofindia
ravleen kaur retweeted
What happens when a migrant worker goes missing? A son tells the story of an endless search for his missing father for the last seven years and the long road to justice
Read this first-person account by Salim Sheikh as told to @pirouetteworld , here: themigrationstory.com/post/m…
ravleen kaur retweeted
This summer, some households in Delhi decided to record what heat actually does to their lives, loss of income, missed work, dehydration cases, reduced mobility, water access, and more. Not with just ambient temperature, but through their own lived experiences.
They recorded sleepless nights. They documented how rising temperatures increased stress, frustration, and conflict at home. They wrote about losing work and income because it became impossible to work outdoors. They described children struggling to study or complete homework in unbearably hot homes. They kept record of increasing electricity bills, medical expenses, and the many invisible impacts of heat that rarely appear in research papers or policy discussions.
These stories, testimonies, and records became Garmi Khata, a community led people’s registry that aims to translate lived experience into evidence. What makes it powerful is its ownership. It is not a survey conducted from outside. It is a community maintained record that turns everyday experience into documented climate evidence.
Yesterday, these households submitted their Garmi Khata to the NHRC, calling on it to acknowledge the human rights impacts of extreme heat and to recognise heat as a human rights issue that demands urgent action.
I feel this opens up a larger discourse on how climate impacts are measured, whose data counts, and how communities are already building their own systems of accountability when official frameworks fall short.
