Writer and editor. Editing @scroll_in. Formerly @thecaravanindia. Bengaluru. Email: ajay@scroll.in
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Jun 15
In a March 2024 meeting, the FSSAI flagged >160 products, including from Britannia, Dabur and Patanjali, for making misleading claims.
Two years later, most of these products are still in the market with the same claims.
@shreegireesh investigates:
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The Janjati Sanskritik Samagam in May was held ostensibly to mark Birsa Munda's 150th birth anniversary.
But in fact it had another primary aim: to demand that Christian tribals be stripped of ST status.
@knowleena reports on the Sangh organisation:
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In 2017, the Modi govt launched an ambitious plan to tackle the problem of unhealthy packaged food with high fat/salt/sugar.
Nearly 10 years on, there's little to show for it.
Part 1 of @shreegireesh's series on the failures of India's food regulators.
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Even as India ramps up its solar power capacity, it faces two major obstacles to harnessing this energy: insufficient transmission and storage.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports:
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“The general consensus is that this 4-year degree programme is a royal mess, in all perspectives.”
As the first batch of DU's FYUP prepares to graduate, students and faculty tell @Johanna_Deeksha of the chaos and confusion that played out in the system.
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May 26
Workers are disillusioned even with MGNREGA, but say the problems run too deep to be fixed just by introducing a new programme.
@knowleena reports on why workers in Jharkhand are wary of VB-G RAM G:
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May 24
Vinesh Phogat's life will make for a far more compelling and dramatic biopic than many that have been made in recent years.
But that will need someone to find the courage to tell a story about a woman's fight against a rotten, corrupt system.
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May 19
The green credits programme lets companies earn credits by paying the govt to afforest land.
But the work is cutting villages off from land they relied on. And experts say the programme undervalues so-called 'degraded' forests.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports:
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Apr 20
Superb sleuthing by @sighyush, who analysed the video of cops beating women in Noida and tracked down the location it was shot at.
Eyewitnesses debunked the official claim that the video was "morphed or AI generated", or shot somewhere else.
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In Chhattisgarh, midday meal workers protested for 2 months for a hike in pay from Rs 66 a day, to at least Rs 350.
Two workers died in the course of the protest.
The protest is adjourned, but workers say they may resume in July.
@knowleena reports:
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Feb 25
More than 60 years after one of India's first thermal power plants was set up, displaced Adivasi families and their descendants continue to struggle for access to basic facilities like water and electricity.
@knowleena reports from Bokaro:
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In 2025, news broke of TN authorities busting a kidney-sale racket in Namakkal.
@Johanna_Deeksha visited and found that in some areas, everyone had either sold a kidney or knew someone who had. A chilling story. [paywall]
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Protestors in Rajasthan are currently on a 700-km march to protect sacred groves or orans.
They say that some of the state's renewable energy projects have taken over these lands, which are vital to local economies and ecologies.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports:
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Jan 31
Found out that @anjanaomkashyap is claiming she was misquoted in a @thecaravanindia profile. Every direct quote was played back to her as a matter of professional courtesy, on email. She called to request a minor change in one, it wasn't this quote.
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Jan 30
"Like a man seeking protection in women’s protective legislation, able-bodied person saying they face discrimination based on disabilities."
@Johanna_Deeksha reports on SC ruling in favour of UC students, who said rules against discrimination hurt them:
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Jan 28
Odisha police picked up 12 of a family in November, released all but 3.
Missing since then, only when @ZamanRokibuz_ contacted the police did the family learn that the 3 elders were forced into Bangladesh. Claims that they weren't Indian don't hold up.
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Jan 27
Shimjitha Musthafa's deferred bail plea will be heard today.
As rage simmers against her, some argue that her arrest is excessive, and that her actions need to be understood in the wider context of women's safety.
@Johanna_Deeksha reports:
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Jan 22
The "double-farming" of paddy in an Uttarakhand district was draining the water table.
@_Vaishnavi_R reports on a decision to ban the practice, and efforts to ensure farmers' livelihoods don't take a hit.
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Jan 16
Scenic Junnar in Maharashtra saw a spate of fatal leopard attacks in 2025.
But why is human-leopard conflict so acute in the region?
@tabassum_b and @_Vaishnavi_R unravel the complex web of factors behind the problem, including a sugarcane farming boom.
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Jan 12
PM Modi launched the Chardham project in 2016. It went ahead though experts warned that cutting fragile slopes was hugely risky.
In Oct, @_Vaishnavi_R traveled on the route, and counted 160 landslides in 300km, and a trail of ruined lives livelihoods.
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