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Masculinity or negative aura farming: What do people really think of Thar drivers?

Scroll through Instagram or YouTube and you’ll find many videos of loud exhausts, reckless driving, traffic-rule speedruns, and a whole lot of attitude. Somewhere along the way, the Mahindra Thar has become less about off-roading and more about making an entrance for many.

Newslaundry · Aug 3

‘Feels like career over’: The online campaign to intimidate women part of CJP protest

A BJP MLA posts a video of a bleeding, weeping girl and tells his followers she is being taught a lesson. The video is actually from Varanasi, from a domestic violence case, and has nothing to do with the protest. It does not matter. The comments say: she didn’t get…

Newslaundry · Aug 3

‘11-hour days, zero rest’: Delhi’s teachers say they are breaking under SIR duty

“We are not computers or robots that we will do BLO work after teaching hours too,” says Rajat*, a higher secondary teacher in Ambedkar Nagar, South Delhi.

Newslaundry · Aug 3

As DU reopens, students decode ‘thinly veiled threats’ and Jantar Mantar protests

There were fewer students than usual in Delhi University’s North Campus this week, as most of those who had joined days earlier were attending their orientation. You could find students across Hindu College, the Faculty of Law, Daulat Ram College, St Stephen's College and Hansraj College holding a piece of…

Newslaundry · Jul 30

At least 75 dead, 7 lakh displaced: The making of Assam’s annual ‘unprecedented’ flood

When it comes to floods in Assam, I refrain from using the term unprecedented. In media reporting on disasters, sensationalism often becomes the norm. The task is to generate curiosity. This is, of course, a structural limitation of event-based reporting. Assam’s floods, however, need a deeper contextual understanding.

Newslaundry · Jul 30

3 crore trees, 6 lakh acres and the Green Revolution | NL interview with Peepal Baba

Governments in India routinely boast about planting crores of saplings in plantation drives, but how many actually survive? In Uttar Pradesh, for example, record-breaking daily targets are proudly announced although ground reports end up exposing how vast numbers of those saplings wither away within days.

Newslaundry · Jul 29

Delhi Police owns the stone-laden truck after NL report. But their lawyer linked it to protesters in HC

After a Newslaundry investigation, Delhi Police have confirmed that the stone-laden truck seen near Jantar Mantar on the morning of the July 20 march was in their custody – a vehicle they had seized after a road accident and then moved. But in the court, the lawyer representing the police…

Newslaundry · Jul 29

Rekha Gupta govt spent Rs 1.83 crore from tourism funds on DU’s Bhajan Clubbing

The Delhi government’s tourism department spent Rs 1.83 crore on eight Bhajan Clubbing events organised across Delhi University colleges in February, according to an RTI obtained by Newslaundry.

Newslaundry · Jul 29

July 20 crackdown: One DCP approved pellets, another authorised firearms

A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid Action Force to use tear gas, lathi charge and firearms against protesters at Jantar Mantar on July 20.

Newslaundry · Jul 28

A truck full of stones appeared near the CJP protest. We found out how

At 8 am on July 20, as the Cockroach Janta Party assembled at Jantar Mantar, its workers pointed to a truck loaded with stones on the road linking Sansad Marg to the protest site. Founder Abhijeet Dipke put out a video asking how it had crossed a police cordon. The…

Newslaundry · Jul 28