Asmita Nandy

Thinking videos for BBC News India YouTube.

Ex: The Quint | Brut India | CNA | French TV | The Migration Story | Jist

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[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Stop obsessing about the size of the crowd. Focus on the cause and the momentum. Anna Hazare was arrested from Supreme Enclave Mayur Vihar, where I was then living. I had gone out for a tennis game in the morning and by the time I returned, he had been whisked away, without any stir in the colony or the street. There were very few people then on the ground, but what followed was history. The initial crowd may be big or small but what matters is the continued momentum.

[Asmita Nandy @NandyAsmita]

Protests against #Vedanta's mine has been growing in Odisha's Shijimali. @BBCIndia 's @vishnukant_7 @antarikshjain travelled to the remote hills to understand this conflict between the people at the centre of this protest and one of India's mining giants.
https://t.co/CXMEDX3iTJ

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

Excl: Ground reality vs official records: Census fieldwork is throwing up data that differ from govt records on open defecation free villages, use of cow dung cakes/kerosene/crop residue for cooking in urban areas despite LPG connection, no electricity. Enumerators asked to revisit and review the “data discrepancies”.I ✍️

https://t.co/1LaYwpiiED

[Asmita Nandy @NandyAsmita]

No no no!
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[Article 14 @Article14live]

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[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Virat Kohli's obnoxious fans are upset that a player gave it back to their king.

For a man who claims to be a feminist, I hope Kohli speaks out against the online abuse of Travis Head's wife, Jessica.

[Raghvendra Rao @raghvendra_rao]

Manipur’s violence isn’t over.

Since 2023, 260+ killed, thousands displaced, communities split by fear and checkpoints.

From grief to protests, rumours to survival—our latest documentary captures a conflict with no closure.
https://t.co/UQfucAvf78
@ashish_dev9 @puneetgaur66

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

They were made to record themselves for global tech firms training robots – a practice ungoverned under Indian law. @scroll_in

@raghavKakkar30 and I met them. Here's their story:
https://t.co/qLs7ac2QuS

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

“MeitY received an input from the IB to block the X account of Cockroach Janta Party, citing that it posed a threat to the sovereignty of India.

"The IB believed that the account was posting inflammatory content through its account, which could have jeopardised the country’s national security.” the official said on condition of anonymity since such blocking orders are issued under a confidential framework."

“In particular, the concern stemmed from the fact that the account’s content was gaining traction among young people.”

https://t.co/4dKR3jZFke

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

An American firm is recording Indian workers inside factories and selling their videos to Big Tech to train robots.

@raghavKakkar30 and I report for @scroll_in:

https://t.co/AEmbcFOADD

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Remember the curious case of slow counting in Bengal on May 4?

"Wherever the fight was tough for us, counting took place slowly," a BJP worker told Scroll. 

By mid-afternoon, this meant the BJP had a strong lead in Bengal even though only a fraction of votes had been counted.

@AnantGuptaAG investigated how this affected a TMC stronghold in Kolkata: Rajarhat New Town.

Once a saffron win seemed imminent in the state, TMC counting agents were forced out from the counting centre, both TMC and CPI(M) told Scroll. 

Till then, the TMC was leading with a significant margin. However, *once the TMC agents left*, the data shows that the BJP closed the lead rapidly.

The next day, in a special, extra counting round, with no TMC agents present, the BJP was declared the winner.

READ: https://t.co/3CWv9RuGFO

[Katie Rogers @katierogers]

"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. "

https://t.co/jenxweDHCs

[Ananya Bhardwaj @BhardwajAnanya]

Rajasthan father sought NEET paper for son, offered Rs 10-12 lakh—CBI connects the dots, peels back layers of leak racket

Read this story by @mayankreports to know the timeline of the ‘leak’

https://t.co/ReeBjJ7ksn

[Asmita Nandy @NandyAsmita]

Operative.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is planning to drop charges against India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, after a lawyer for the billionaire made an unusual investment offer. https://t.co/08sl331XCJ

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

A British doctor stranded in India for 4 months over an anti-BJP FB post finally boarded a flight home Tuesday.

Before leaving, he spoke to @thaver_mohamed, looking visibly relieved, but still asking the Q that has haunted him: "How can a 12-word post attract an FIR & LOC?"

Rs 50 lakh in legal fees. 4 months away from his children. Nearly lost his job. Read his story: https://t.co/fof6USO0uc via @IndianExpress

[Vulpine @don_vulpine]

Fyi , the new Government of Bengal just now declared those , whose names have been deleted from #SIR , will NOT be eligible for any welfare schemes including the ones meant for women . Names of a high % of women alongside Muslims , Dalits have been deleted ! It just began !

[Asmita Nandy @NandyAsmita]

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[ANI @ANI]

West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal has been appointed as the Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

With elections done, PM Modi urges citizens to cut fuel use, avoid foreign travel.
PM to leave for 7-day trip to UAE, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Italy on Friday.
https://t.co/HpjbhsgzMS

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

A little disappointing to see so many op-ed pieces (and op-ed adjacent 'analysis') on Great Nicobar project get so much traction while journalism by the few of us who struggled to gather funding for ground reportage and spent a lot of time on documents-based analysis gets buried

[Asmita Nandy @NandyAsmita]

Have followed and admired @parthpunter's work for years but this has to be one of the most conceptually brilliant stories he has written. Please read.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

The poorest MLA in India’s richest state

At a time when opportunistic politicians like Raghav Chaddha are defecting shamelessly

At a time politics has become a game that can't be won without vulgar use of money

I write about Vinod Nikole, an Adivasi MLA from Maharashtra comfortably into his second term.

He didn't even have a bank account against his name when he first contested the assembly election in 2019

Do read via @PARInetwork

https://t.co/IsffjEvVdX

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

The poorest MLA in India’s richest state

At a time when opportunistic politicians like Raghav Chaddha are defecting shamelessly

At a time politics has become a game that can't be won without vulgar use of money

I write about Vinod Nikole, an Adivasi MLA from Maharashtra comfortably into his second term.

He didn't even have a bank account against his name when he first contested the assembly election in 2019

Do read via @PARInetwork

https://t.co/IsffjEvVdX