supriya

journalist/researcher @washingtonpost south asia (also drunk dancer. also film enthusiast) send tips on signal @/supriya.21 / email: [email protected]

[Rokibuz Zaman @ZamanRokibuz_]

Our second story on last year's forceful deportation.

An ‘indigenous’ Assamese woman was pushed into Bangladesh. A year later, she is still stuck there.

A family in Dhaka gave her shelter and care.

https://t.co/Ml0aiquad6

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”

[James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD) @james_f_thomas]

paywall is finally down on my friend's brilliant essay! it's about the pseudoscience of "historical trauma" and how it gets politically weaponized. he's been researching this subject for years and he's genuinely changed my thinking. I hope you read it!
https://t.co/IVYbrvotLU

[sunetra choudhury @sunetrac]

When systems fail, individual heroes rise. These are people who rescued people and administered CPR in the hauz rani fire . (L to R) Amir Khan, Mohd Shoaib, Wasim Raja and Mohd Afzal

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[John Reed 🏳️‍🌈 @JohnReedwrites]

"Nearly 1mn, about 1/5 of Lebanon’s population, remain displaced more than a month and a half after the ceasefire that nominally halted the conflict...The vast displacement has begun to look less like a temporary emergency than something more permanent"
https://t.co/qNfpWHeX0u

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

A family of six Israel killed in Marwaniya, Lebanon today.

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

While the previous NFHS had 131 key indicators, it has dropped to 101 in the latest report, with crucial data on anaemia, sex ratio at birth, infant and child mortality, and quality of family planning services missing.

Jisha Surya reports

https://t.co/hvL0dbIeJG

[Article 14 @Article14live]

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https://t.co/2XjoqhVGwO

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Google is planning to construct a massive data center in India – on land that a Dalit community was given after generations of oppression.

Around 200 million Dalit people live in India. As a group, they have the lowest rate of land ownership and were prevented from owning land until 1950.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"The roughest 72 hours of my life."

Charlotte England reports.

https://t.co/QUVwOyEsjE

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

quantum justice- page 237 of the high court's 'bhojshala' judgement (https://t.co/fkdxbiSS5V). how can we even begin to assess the rationale of a judgment that invokes such an argument?
& the nithyananda cited here is a rape-accused, absconding from a Karnataka criminal trial.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Parliament enacted the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 in order to put a stop to the practice of digging up disputed places of worship and causing social disharmony. Courts finding loopholes in the law to allow vested interests to go after disputed structures...

[Anant Gupta @AnantGuptaAG]

I've spent over a month in Bengal covering the election and its aftermath 🧵

My last story was about the odd case of Rajarhat New Town. Both BJP and Trinamool claim that officials manipulated the results in this seat.

The Election Commission's response? 👇

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

When the US sanctioned me for exposing corporate complicity, I trusted people would act. If after nearly a year @bookingcom & @Airbnb still profit from stolen Palestinian property, it’s because too many still use them.

Stop using them now & tell them why.
https://t.co/VAgI9fYzTn

[love drops @lovedropx]

— James Baldwin

[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

[Supriya Sharma @sharmasupriya]

On the subject of foreign trips, we had found a startling pattern in the prime minister's travels

https://t.co/58m2iQE8gs

[TRT World @trtworld]

Over 5,000 illegal Israeli settlers, along with Finance Minister Smotrich, storm Joseph's Tomb in occupied West Bank's Nablus as Israeli forces raid the Palestinian city, WAFA reports
https://t.co/hthdRLXKt2

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israel killed this Lebanese father and his 7-year-old son, who were known for caring for birds.

Israel has killed at least 575 people in Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah on April 16.