Sameer Yasir

Editor | former New York Times Staff Writer in South Asia.

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@Karan_Singhs @nytimes @sajahq Congratulations 🎉

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“Why should there be a difference between worker and worker,” Ela Bhatt asked in an interview with The New York Times in 2009, “whether they are working in a factory, or at home or on the footpath?”

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Public attention has focused on the pollution in Delhi this week, one Indian environmental activist said, but hundreds of millions of people in northern India are also suffering from some of the worst air pollution they have seen in years.

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Jute, a coarse fiber that is woven into fabrics like burlap, has been cultivated for centuries in the warm and humid climate of the Ganges Delta. Some of India’s jute factories have been in operation for more than a century, and today the country is the world’s largest producer.

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When shoppers in places like America bring their reusable bag into a store, they aren’t just saving the planet. They are reviving a storied industry thousands of miles away in India.

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@swatissambyal Hey Swati, can you please DM me your cell number or email? many thanks

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"Every culture wants to memorialize its dead. Every family needs the missing to be identified to reach closure. Perhaps that is why a wartime mass grave offends something so deep in the human conscience."

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@guptajiten Please check your DM!

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@shivkivani01 @smeerkpblr Hi, I am a reporter with The New York Times. I wanted to speak to you. Can you please DM me your cell number. Many thanks.

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Cyrus Mistry, an Indian-born Irish businessman who once led India’s biggest conglomerate but was unceremoniously removed from the job, died in a car accident in India on Sunday. He was 54. https://t.co/fV1KZwXJYA

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@nyttypos @nytimes I am thrilled 😁!

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Ms. Gowda said that as she has turned frail recently, she often thinks about death and dying.

“The best death would be under the shade of a big tree with huge branches,” she said. “I like them more than anything else in my life.”

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Tulsi Gowind Gowda has devoted her life to transforming vast swaths of barren land in her native state of Karnataka, in southern India, into dense forests.

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She has walked for miles, deep into tropical rainforests, carefully cutting healthy branches from hundreds of trees & replanting & grafting them. Her eyes light up when she talks about rare seeds or a sapling. And when she dies, she would like to be reborn as a big tree.

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“Plastic bags can only be eliminated if the customer decides it, not the seller,” said a vegetable hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “Getting rid of it is a slow process; it can’t happen overnight.”

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“Sometimes, during nights, I really get scared: What if I am not able to get anything?” an Indian job seeker, said. “All of my friends are suffering because of unemployment.” Our story.

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While collecting songs from a nomadic traders, the linguist said, they insisted that he honor them by accepting a gift: ear of a roasted goat. "I had to accept it, despite being a vegetarian for decades.”

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@tehseenp @ahmedalifayyaz Thanks man!