Exclusive: The National Board of Wildlife, headed by the PM, partnered with Odisha to erase parts of Elephant Corridor and a Wildlife Sanctuary. So that miners access bauxite reserves worth '000 crs. @ayushikar1998 investigates for @reporters_co 1/2 reporters-collective.in/trc/…

I found this conversation by Vivek Chibber on the turn of the Western elite Left useful in large parts to understand the elite Left-liberal space of India. youtu.be/kE8K9w3-b9U?si=x89-…

Many in journalism, civil society and politics, of all hues, played moral posturing games on the lives of #Manipur citizens to suit their mainland needs. Our miseries was fodder for your politics. You shamefully and with arrogance Misled ordinary Indian citizens too. You did not care or bother to even listen, forget trying to understand. You demonised one or the other society to suit your purposes. You tried to discredit other people from these 3 streams who were honestly trying to understand better. Today when you don't see the changed nature of conflict fit your agenda you are in wait and watch mode. Waiting till we have enough citizens lost and for the dead to first suit your politics, for you to play your savior complex again.

Folks, @confusedvichar and I are looking to do a joint book event in Bangalore next weekend and need a venue with capacity for ~50 people. Somewhere central/easy to get to. Please reply/DM :)

Not sure what is it with Chief Economic Advisors in the Modi Govt era… When in office, they say and do everything possible to act in alignment, confluence with government’s agenda-sometimes even becoming soothsayers… Once out of office, they will independently produce critical scholarship (and new insights) around the time they were in office and on areas they almost said nothing about (while being critical of the regime)… 😌

The silence is profound over what's happening in Manipur. Unlike 2023, the vocabulary broke down this time. "How can Christians kill Christians?" — But there have always been layers here that the mainland's framework can't hold. And this is the pattern: when a situation defies easy categorisation, it disappears. ("how can we fit it all in just 1 minute for the reels, nobody understands Manipur anyway").

For the Republic, Manipur and its people are socially, culturally, politically & economically irrelevant it seems.

New on @dataforin: my colleagues Ameya Bokil and Apoorv Anand assembled the first public dataset of India's prison population to understand how many are incarcerated, where, and for what. Part of our new Law vertical dataforindia.com/prisons/

The political class across the spectrum watches #Manipur in silence as the State is ineffective and people are pitted against each other. The state's failure this time has pitted the Kuki-Zo against the Naga. Why are our young men and women from all the communities not entitled to the same dignity and safety of life as elsewhere in the country?

Don't know what to do with all the RTI's the Union and State governments refused to answer, add it to our Denials Directory.

How ignorant could you be of what's happening in Manipur now. Sadly, you aren't the only one. Most of mainland India is.

Read what's happening in Manipur now. Update yourself.

I hope the kidnapped Naga community citizens are also released now by the Kuki leadership. #Manipur.

All 14 Kukis, held captive by a Naga group in Manipur since May 13, released @santwana99 @jayanthjacob @NewIndianXpress

Political failure in #Manipur now to get a cover by use of force. There is deep history of how this has ended up in #Manipur and other states. Read of the violent past and excesses in the state.

One can understand (and vehemently criticise) why the Modi gov't does not speak to the escalating violence in #Manipur. How citizens of Kuki and Naga communities are being forced into increasing confrontation now. But why is the Indian political opposition blind and muted? We cannot let our people fall into a space where the govt uses it's own failure to justify more violence in the state. Regardless of how the opposition reads the situation for its political positions in mainland, it's incumbent upon them too to speak for the hapless citizens of Manipur caught in a spiral or violence as the gov't continues to fail.

Breaking: Modi's austerity call hits the wrong end of governance. For the first time in at least two decades, India cancels delegation to ongoing #climate negotiations in Germany. Officials to dial in. @nit_set reports reporters-collective.in/trc/…

Breaking: Modi's austerity call hits the wrong end of governance. For the first time in at least two decades, India cancels delegation to ongoing #climate negotiations in Germany. Officials to dial in. I write for @reporters_co reporters-collective.in/trc/…

Breaking: India gives climate talks a miss, dials in from home. Indian gov't decides against going to climate negotiations in Germany. Fossil fuel phase out is on agenda. In April, it had cancelled plans to host @UNFCCC talks '28. @reporters_co. reporters-collective.in/trc/…

The only software Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter Veena's firm ever made was for school mgmt. Yet it was hired by a mineral/metals co., where a Kerala PSU had 13% stake, for IT consultancy. Veena was paid Rs 2.78 crore, with nothing to show for work. I report indianexpress.com/article/in…