Maitreyee Boruah

Independent journalist

[hemant @TeluguInvader2]

Mid day meal when I become Dictator of India

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

#Story

As heat advisories urge people to avoid outdoor work between noon and 3 pm, daily wage labourers commuting to Udaipur find the recommendation impossible to follow, constrained by work schedules and the last bus home at 4:30 pm.

Read the full report by @pirouetteworld

https://t.co/R0Qid107nr

[101Reporters @101reporters]

For Assam’s tea garden women, collecting firewood is no longer a simple chore

Despite longstanding provisions, many workers say the support falls short, forcing women to navigate multiple barriers to keep their kitchens running.
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[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Bengaluru: Reacting to BJP's remarks over his statement on RSS, Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge says, "When RSS marches in public. Who gives them security? Is it the Commerce department, the Women and Child Welfare department? The home department gives them security, right? So I want to know who I am giving security to...When 20 lakh people are converging time and again across Karnataka, as per the RSS report, whose job is it to know who these people are, and what they are converging for?"

[Rahul Desai @ReelReptile]

Wrote about the great Naseeruddin Shah through the lens of *that* performance in Main Vaapas Aaunga:

https://t.co/ZQloval9nq

[AnnieZaidi PhD @anniezaidi]

I don't want to hear about male loneliness. You have any idea how lonely women are? The loneliness of not being able to step out of the home without permission. The loneliness, often, of not even being able to talk on the phone without family interference. The loneliness & shame+

[Maitreyee Boruah @ValleyofS]

And journalism continues to crawl.

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

In this week’s Open Magazine. Out today.

[Maitreyee Boruah @ValleyofS]

Humanity is dead. Law is dead. We humans are zombies.

[Kamru Choudhury @Kamru_Choudhury]

Somewhere at the India Bangladesh Border in West Bengal.
An old Muslim man helplessly sitting near the Border fence, seemingly an Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant, who could not show his documents.
He was supposed to be pushed across the border but Bangladesh refuses to take him.
Now this man is spending day and night in the open without any solution.

[Shinjinee Majumder @shinjineemjmdr]

The voters spoke to @AltNews on record. CPI(M) panchayat member Ahmed Ali Mondol: "My family & I all voted for the alliance from Booth 164. The results show 1 vote. Where did our votes go?" ISF leader Akhtar Ali Mollah said: 8 family members, all voted alliance, same booth.

[Laadli @Laadli_PF]

'Laadli Media Fellowships — For the Gender Game Changers'
Stories that don't just report reality — they help change it.
Over the past decade, the Laadli Media Fellowships have enabled journalists across India to go beyond headlines and uncover stories that are often overlooked, unheard, or deliberately ignored. From the lives of rural women and transgender communities to the intersections of gender with technology, climate change, disability, and violence, these fellowship-supported stories have brought critical issues into public conversation and given voice to those on the margins.

Since 2012, a total of 157 journalists writing in multiple languages have received Laadli Fellowships, resulting in 357 stories published across 92 media outlets, with fellowship grants worth over ₹42 lakh supporting impactful, in-depth reporting.

We congratulate all the Fellowship winners of 2023, 2024, and 2025 for their commitment to telling stories that matter. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to the editors and publication houses that supported these stories and helped amplify voices that are too often left unheard.

Here are the Fellowship winners from 2023, 2024, and 2025, along with excerpts from some of the stories that needed to be told.

2023 - @RenukaKalpana, @tweetsofmona, @journolady, AishwaryaTripathi, @BharaliRatna, @ValleyofS, SwatiShaiwalSharma, RehanaKousar, @shailaja_tiwale, RemyaKH

2024 - @GitaSunilPillai, @priyamenon74, @HarithaJohn1 , @Aishwarya_avrj , SohiniSengupta, @apoorvasingh073 , @AashikaShivangi , @vermaaps , PoojaRathi, @kinshukwrites , SudarshanaChakraborty, @anujdreammedia , @shailaja_tiwale , HeenakausarKhan, @JMullappatt , @ANISHAMENDEZ6

2025 – Theme 1 - (Mental Health of Women and Persons with Alternate SOGI): AnanyaRay, HarshithaPadmavinod, @InaGoel , @AliyaBashir , @RayeesRamzan3 , TanushreeGhosh, VarshaPrakash, @meenakshy_13 , SadafMasoodi, AbidRBaba, @MalabikaDhar ,RohitPrashar, SabaKhan, @anujdreammedia , @MJasheena

2025 – Theme 2 - (Technology-Enabled Gender-Based Violence and its Intersectional Dimensions): AmbikaSharma, @ButaniAshna , @DiyaMaG18 , AkshitaPrasad, @GitaSunilPillai , @varshasuman @AarusheeShukla , @Musheera_Ashraf , KavitaSwami, pritiKharwar, @aiswaryaparija1 , AbdulMuqeet, AsmitaDave, @ANISHAMENDEZ6

[Jawaharlal Nehru @PMNehru]

20 year old Faizan Ahmad Shah was traveling from UP to Bihar on Purvanchal Express.

He was on his way home to celebrate Eid with his family.

While his parents were waiting for him at home, his father received a message from Faizan.

He told him that he has been attacked in the train and he's hiding to text his father.

This was the last time Faizan's family heard from him.

This is at least the third lynching news I've come across in the last three days.

More and more Muslims are getting attacked while traveling in train.

This country has already become unrecognizable.

[101Reporters @101reporters]

Read the full story by Maitreyee Boruah.
Link:
https://t.co/i5QKMgQMHJ

#grassrootsstoriesmatter #ClimateChange #GujjarCommunity #LivelihoodCrisis #RuralIndia (2/2)

[101Reporters @101reporters]

Double trouble: Assam’s maize farmers hit by pests and erratic weather

As maize cultivation expands across Assam, climate shifts and rising pest attacks are eroding yields and farmer confidence.
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[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

It's not enough that you watch the destruction of democracy.

You also have to listen to brain-dead, mediocre & vomit-inducing punditry that's almost entirely aimed at punching the losers.

Political reporting in this country is the absolute worst.

[Nalini Mohanty @sangharshindia]

Sabar Institute and Prannoy Roy’s DeKoder show us why BJP came up trumps in West Bengal

We posed a question yesterday: will @MamataOfficial be able to take on the combined might of the BJP and the EC? The results showed that she couldn’t; no wonder, she lost the election.
In 2021, the TMC had won with a 10% vote margin against the BJP. In 2026, it polled 5% less vote than the BJP. So it was a swing of 7.5% vote share that sinked Mamata.
We had seen how the Election Commission had masterminded it through the SIR deletions: Muslims constitute 27% of the voters in West Bengal, but out of the SIR deletions, 34% were Muslims. Hindus are 72% of the state’s population but the proportion of Hindus deleted through the SIR constituted only 63%. So, before the election campaign began, The Election Commission had handed the BJP a head start of 16% of votes.
@SabarInstitute_ had painstakingly stringed together lakhs of cases of genuine voters who were disenfranchised by the evil design of the @ECISVEEP Election Commission. Please see the coincidence: that 27+6 lakh genuine voters were disenfranchised, despite holding all eligible documents and BJP’s vote share exceeded that of the TMC, as compiled till last night, by about 33 lakh!

@PrannoyRoy7749’s team at @DeKoderAI showed us how the SIR deletions were the highest in the constituencies where the BJP had polled very poorly in 2021. For example, it showed, how the largest deletions were carried out in the 20 constituencies that had the biggest gap in the vote share in 2021 election — where the average Trinamul vote share was 59% and average BJP vote share was 26%. Such constituencies received special attention from the Election Commission to scale down the TMC’s lead by deletion of the minority votes.
Take the case of Bhabanipur: as @ttindia pointed out, names of more than 40% Muslims were deleted from the electoral rolls of Mamata’s constituency though Muslims constitute only about 20% of the population there.

It was all part of a grand design of the EC to instal the BJP in power in the last bastion that stood out against the communal and fascist forces in the country.
Let us now brace for darker times ahead!

[Neha Banka 네하 방카 @nehabnk]

The kind of broadcast journalism that was missing in India since at least 2022, is now back in the form of DeKoder.

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

As the Gulf War continues, India faces severe shortage of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG). Several households are switcdhing to alternative fuel sources like firewood, both in the rural and urban centres, with migrant households being the most vulnerable to this switch.
While India’s annual LPG consumption more than doubled between 2011–12 and 2024–25, rising from around 15 million metric tons to 31 million metric tons, more than 93% of this growth was met through imports. This dependence on imported LPG causes severe stress during times of fuel crisis like the one India is facing right now. When families are now returning to firewood, it poses multiple health hazards, especially for women who are responsible for cooking. And among the most vulnerable to this crisis are the migrant communities.

In this video, The Migration Story’s special correspondent Aishwarya Mohanty explain how India’s efforts for pushing clean fuel for cooking is facing a major risk from the ongoing Gulf War. Sunil Mani, Policy Advisor of the Energy Program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, also joins the conversation.

Watch the full video here:
https://t.co/KfWsiNB7iS

Story by: Aishwarya Mohanty @pirouetteworld
Research Assistance: Aadhya Angirish, Jasmeh Kaur, Nihira Pillai
Video Editor: Deekshith Pai @DRPai98

#gulfwar #migrantworker #lpgcrisis #greenenergy #cleanfuel #india

[Maitreyee Boruah @ValleyofS]

@himantabiswa Please talk about floods. Guwahati is sinking.

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

https://t.co/1P2ugu0eGb

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

No water, no washroom and no safety net when heatwaves hits: How women street vendors survive summers

Story by
@sajid_ali_mir

Inputs by
@ShaliniWIEGO
@DrLahariya

Additional reporting by
@AlmaasMasood
Amoolya Rajappa
Supreet Sapkal
Nihira Pillai