“He was the only journalist who covered the refinery protests…From the time the protests began until now, he covered everything…other newspapers barely gave coverage to the issue. People here liked him a lot because he was the sole journalist who cared about their issues.”
That’s how Dipak Joshi remembers his friend Shashikant Warishe, a journalist who was allegedly murdered by the subject of his last report – a land agent linked to a controversial refinery project in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri.
