AGK

Journalist. Storyteller. Consultant.

[Sukanya Shantha @sukanyashantha]

🚨‘The Forced Guilt Project’

Inside the NIA’s “Perfect” Conviction Record: How Coercive Detentions Are Driving Guilty Pleas

@thewire_in, in collaboration with @pulitzercenter, spent months digging through NIA cases, poring over court records, meeting accused, lawyers

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[The Wire @thewire_in]

📢One of India’s premier investigative agencies boasts of an impeccable record. But what lies behind these flawless numbers? A playbook that strikes at the heart of justice itself.

The Wire's investigation exposes the hidden price of “success”

Part 1 drops tomorrow. Stay tuned!

[AGK @Asha_GK]

"America’s mainstream media is by now comfortable talking and writing about Trump’s authoritarianism. In describing what he is seeking to impose on America, the media should be using the term fascism."

https://t.co/wCzNXkhR6V

[AGK @Asha_GK]

Caught in the middle of Manipur’s ethnic conflict, Meiteis who follow Christianity https://t.co/E1t3j2huJj via @scroll_in

[AGK @Asha_GK]

‘Amazon doesn’t care about books’: how Barnes & Noble bounced back https://t.co/U3pxw2bd7t

[AGK @Asha_GK]

‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood https://t.co/vPGb0nMyad

[AGK @Asha_GK]

Is TikTok’s ‘shoppertainment’ sales model pushing Gen Z into debt? Just look at the numbers https://t.co/aAg9PfaFqT

[AGK @Asha_GK]

Gary Lineker spoke his mind. Now we should too: fate could have put any one of us in those migrant boats https://t.co/aCgYeE7bCt

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

With the Hindenburg report unfolding, my clueless neighbor came upstairs and asked me “what do they mean by crony capitalism?” So, I told him a story of the humble bicycle reflector. Read on to know why. 1/14

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta personally appeared for Delhi Police when Zubair's plea against his remand was heard by the Delhi high court. That tells us something about the importance of the case for the ecosystem ruling India. | @SushantSin
https://t.co/nBi8IsoRVr

[AGK @Asha_GK]

A year on from Apple Daily’s closure, what’s left of Hong Kong’s free press? https://t.co/RZyvAMQF8o

[AGK @Asha_GK]

My 98-year-old friend fled Nuremberg on the Kindertransport. Today would he be sent to Rwanda? https://t.co/agdFfR0Ph6

[V @VforVendakka_]

i painted filter coffee! 🤧

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

I guess education is overrated

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The Battle of Donbas has begun

[Sayantan Bera @sayantanbera]

After speaking to farmers in several states, experts and industry insiders, my sense is that a #wheat crisis is imminent for India in the next 4-5 months, or earlier

[alex gutentag @galexybrane]

In 2020 the entire public health establishment praised China’s “zero covid” strategy. Today 25 million people in Shanghai are confined to their homes. Families are going hungry and young children have been separated from their parents. Zero covid is a human rights disaster.

[mgongadze @MGongadze]

Brent was my classmate at Harvard @niemanfdn program. He was brave, sensitive and smart. His stories in our writing class made us cry. This is devastating.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Tonight is the night of real heavy guns in west Kyiv.
I think the world’s heaviest towed artillery pieces are having a duel right now.
Hopefully, we will have time to write this down in history.

[Tim Mak @timkmak]

Emergency generators are continuing to provide power to critical systems at the Chernobyl site, reports NPR's Geoff Brumfiel, but repair to local transmission lines is made impossible by combat in the area.

Generators have 48 hours of fuel.

https://t.co/mbwQYLI1ik