Priya Ramani’s lawyer makes final arguments in MJ Akbar defamation suit Continuing from where she had left off on Saturday, Priya Ramani’s lawyer, Rebecca John, presented her final arguments at a virtual hearing on the defamation suit brought against the journalist by Bharatiya Janata Party leader MJ Akbar. Akbar had filed the case in October 2018, […]

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Sarojini Nagar workers’ plight shows how Covid has wrecked Delhi’s popular flea market The very day prime minister Narendra Modi announced the coronavirus lockdown in March, Ankit Sahu, 22, was laid off. Ankit worked as a salesman in a shop selling women’s clothes in Sarojini Nagar, one of Delhi’s most popular flea markets. He got […]

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The media needs to stop using insensitive or triggering ‘representational images’ and photographs Please note: The images used in this piece include disturbing media depictions of suicide and mental illness. A man huddled in a corner of a room, trying to hide his face. A man with a gun to his head, finger on the […]

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Newslaundry’s Anusuya Som tested positive on May 26. She stayed in a quarantine centre for 17 days Almost every single one of us, at least once, would have wondered what it will be like if we test positive for Covid-19. Yet, even as we live in the middle of a global pandemic, there’s a part […]

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In Delhi’s red light area sex workers on GB Road are surviving on meagre savings and food supplied intermittently by NGOs. The government hasn’t provided any help, they say Sarita is worried. She has meagre savings and an 11-month-old daughter to care for, but she may not find work even after the coronavirus lockdown is […]

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