Divya

DU '17, IIMC, JMI '22
Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker
Multimedia journalist @outlookindia

[Divya @DeeTeeBeeTeee]

Produced and scripted this video for Outlook India on Bonded Labour in India. The practice was abolished in 1976, yet it continues to haunt the lives of many across the country.

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Bonded labour in India was abolished in 1976 through Bonded Labour System Abolition Act. However, even after 48 years, it is prevalent across the country. Economic deprivation amplified by caste oppression makes the extremely poor people vulnerable to luring. Sometimes, a contractor takes them away to brick kilns or coal mines against paltry advance, in other times, promise of job only works as the driving force. Neither they get the chance to move out of the factories on their will, nor are they allowed to work anywhere else. They get trapped in the cycle of never-to-be-repaid debt and continue paying through generations of labour. Here is the full story from Bihar- home state for thousands of such bondad labourers who are still striving to breathe ‘freedom’ on this independence day.

Reporter: @abhik_md
Camera: Suresh K Pandey
Video Editor: Ehraz Zaman
Script: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

#IndependenceDaySpecial #Freedom #Rights #Equality #Constitution #Labour #BondedLabour

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu is not only a war criminal. He is a liar.

All humanitarian organizations agree: Tens of thousands of children face starvation because his extremist government continues to block aid.

Israelis want him out of office. So he came to Congress to campaign.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

अगर आपके पास दो भैंसें हैं तो आपको हर भैंस पे तीस प्रतिशत, उनके दूध पे additional बीस प्रतिशत, दूध से पनीर बनाने पे और additional पंद्रह प्रतिशत, और अगर दूध/पनीर से आपका वज़न बढ़ा तो हर किलो पर पाँच प्रतिशत सेहत cess देना पड़ेगा।

और उसके बाद आपकी एक भैंस वो फिर भी ले जाएँगे।

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A wave of self styled pastors/ministers has swept across Punjab and social media. Outlook spoke to people across the state to understand this phenomenon.

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There's an exponentially growing trend of self-styled pastors and Christian missionaries in Punjab. While Christianity found space in Punjab in the 1800s, this new crop of Christian pastors is a growing concern due to their claims of miraculous cures.

Outlook's Ashwani Sharma traveled across Punjab for the report.

Videographer: Tribhuvan Tiwari
Producer/Editor: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

#Punjab #Christianity #Pastors #Missionaries #Church #GodMen

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In #Ramgarh and #Hazaribagh districts, #CoalMines have displaced #Dalit and #Adivasi villages. #Mining in #Jharkhand has also uprooted forests.

Reporter: @Asghar037
Camera: Vikram Sharma
Producer: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

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Uttarakhand's Himalayan ecosystem faces challenges such as the Kedarnath floods and the sinking of Joshimath. Over 1,000 forest fires this year have impacted more than 1,400 hectares, with Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh, Pauri, and Uttarkashi being the worst-hit districts. Rapid development and urbanization are contributing factors.

Reporter: @ashwanis1208
Camera: Suresh K Pandey
Script: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

#Uttarakhand #Kedarnath #ClimateChange #Floods #ForestFires #Environment #Nature #Himalayas

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Outlook visits Delhi's Jamia Nagar, Hazrat Nizamuddin station area, Sarai Kale Khan Basti, and Geeta Colony to explore the impact of climate change on the urban poor. Through conversations, we uncover how heatwaves affect their daily lives. Many attribute climate change to rapid urbanisation and felling of trees. They also share how, along with the intense and prolonged heat wave which that had to endure this summer, factors like severe water scarcity and no electricity for a couple of hours every day added to their misery.

Reporter: @swatiSubhedar & @apeksha_9
Videographer: @DeeTeeBeeTeee & @Animikhchakrab1
Editor/Producer: Divya Tiwari

#Delhi #ClimateChange #UrbanPoor #Heatwaves #RapidUrbanisation #WaterScarcity #JamiaNagar #GeetaColony #HazratNizamuddin

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A death toll of 121 following a stampede has left Hathras devastated. Vinod lost his mother, wife and 9-year-old daughter in the tragedy.
Watch this ground report by @Outlookindi

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Rakhi Bose, Assistant Editor with Outlook, reports from Hathras, where a stampede at Baba Bholenath's satsang claimed 121 lives, including Vinod’s mother, wife, and daughter.

The event was overwhelmed with 2.5 to 3 lakh attendees, far beyond the 80,000 limit. Survivors share stories of chaos, lost loved ones, and lack of safety measures. The FIR omits the organisers and Baba Bholenath, sparking local outrage and demands for accountability and compensation.

Reporter: @theotherbose
Videographer: Mayank Makhija
Producer: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

#Hathras #FulraiTragedy #Stampede #BabaBholenath #Satsang #HathrasStampade

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Outside, the world continued being profound and distressing. A red book glowed in the lamplight. It is poet Vikram Seth’s translation of the Hanuman Chalisa that’s recently been published by Speaking Tiger Publications.

After some point, the poet picked up the mango and smelled it. “Ripe,” he announced.
There was the implied sense of smell and touch and taste of the Digha Malda in the notebook and in the camera that recorded the interview.

He had jokingly said the entry fee would be five Digha Malda mangoes. He had spent some years in Patna in Bihar long ago and had first recited a part of his translation of the Hanuman Chalisa almost a decade ago at the first edition of the Patna Literature Festival.
“To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman,” Seth had written in his novel A Suitable Boy.
Mangoes arrived. Strangers from Bihar sent them. They know the longing for that taste of those mangoes from home.

Seth is a wanderer accumulating material for future nostalgias. That’s what he said in one his books. Mangoes are nostalgia.

We sat on little stools surrounded by hundreds of books about thousands of people and places and emotions and animals and birds.

We spoke about translating the most beloved poem of Indians, the rising intolerance and how Seth started writing.
"If I am such a beneficiary of translations, who am I to hug my translations close to myself?”
That’s what Seth said.

He had first translated the Hanuman Chalisa for his now 90-year-old aunt and at her insistence, he agreed to publish it a decade later.
“I don't share the vision to misuse it—a great, wonderful, sacred text—to do unkind, cruel, arrogant things because Hanuman was not an arrogant person; he did it in the service of someone else,” he said.

There was a lot more.
But there is always another time for it.

In the meantime, the green of the mangoes alongside the red of the book stood out.

Full interview on Outlook’s website https://t.co/c5gjA7K44R and YouTube.

In Video: @RealVikramSeth & @Chinkis
Videographer: Suresh K Pandey & Romana Manpreet
Producer: @DeeTeeBeeTeee

#HanumanChalisa #Book #Translation #Hindutva #VikramSeth #SuitableBoy #Mythology #Poetry #GoldenGate #Nostalgia #Mangoes #Hanuman #Bihar #Patna #PatnaLiteratureFestival #Literature #ASuitableBoy

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

भारत को शिक्षा मंत्री की नहीं परीक्षा मंत्री की आवश्यकता है ।

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Under the able leadership of supreme leader, UGC-NET will be conducted again.
(महाराज, फेर लीक हो गैल पर्चा)

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Ya khuda, mere saare gunaaho ki saza tech bros ko dede

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@lawandnation @gauravsabnis Neither is capitalism, bruv. We've been in a capitalist system for a while and all we have witnessed so far is global warming, wars, famine, and so on. Socialist nations can't work when the west is adamant on destroying them. Stop being daft, dude. lmao. Read more on Cuba?

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@sahilkazmi2499 my favourite question was when they wanted us to chronologically arrange radio programmes and Mann ki Baat was on it. I wanted to stab myself in the eye with the pen NTA gave me. Can't believe this exam determines who will be teaching at university level.

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Bro is so Indian, he's literally trying to get Swadeshi movement started. Also, what foreign food? Isn't Chicken Tikka Masala like a national dish or something?

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

We shouldn’t be reliant on foreign food. Buy British.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Thinking of buying copious amounts of Kaju Katlis today, to save 124 jains from diabetes.

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All eyes on J&K except the leadership of the country? My dude hasn't even given a scripted interview. Amit is busy giving birthday wishes to Piyush while Narendra is busy responding to congratulatory texts.
18 ghante kaam ya kaam-chori?

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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat came down heavily on both the ruling party and the opposition and reminded them of the ‘decorum’ of the electoral battle. Bhagwat's remarks, timed just after Modi's third term oath, highlight concerns over BJP's performance and social division. He emphasized mutual respect for differing opinions, and urgent action to address the ongoing riots in Manipur.

Script: Divya Tiwari & @abhik_md
Videographer: Vikram Sharma
Presentation: Rani Jana
Editor: Himanshu

#DeepDive #RSS #MohanBhagwat #NarendraModi #BJP

[Jamia Journalism Alums (JJA) @JamiaJournalism]

As the admission result of MACJ is out, applications for Prof Obaid Siddiqui Memorial Scholarship 2024 have opened. Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis, but kindly apply at the earliest.

(Check thread below for FAQs)

Google form:

https://t.co/BAu0Dnm49E

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In the 18th Lok Sabha, women's representation dropped to 13% with only 73 women MPs. As of June 1st, India's global ranking for women's representation in the lower house of Parliament has dropped from 185 to 143.The data suggests there is an immediate need for implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill to tackle the gender inequality in Indian politics.

Produced by Divya Tiwari

#Parliament #Women #Politics #WomenInPolitics #WomenReservationBill