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Shreya Roy Chowdhury
Shreya Roy Chowdhury is a Scroll.in staffer.
‘Blaming teachers isn’t a solution’: Niti Aayog adviser on a ‘theory of change’ to improve education
Alok Kumar discusses the think tank’s effort to help states make their school systems more effective.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· Jun 13, 2019 · 09:00 am
Data check: Would anti-BJP parties have done better if the Congress had sewn up more alliances?
Scroll.in looked at five states – Assam, Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and UP – to see if anti-BJP votes could have come together better.
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
,
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
&
Ipsita Chakravarty
· May 26, 2019 · 06:30 am
2019 results: Why the BJP’s sweep in Haryana marks the end of an era
It signals the waning influence of the Jats, who ruled the state for four decades until 2014, specifically Hooda and Chautala families.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 23, 2019 · 09:45 pm
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Watch: The original ‘Hound Dog’ performance, years before Elvis Presley claimed it as his song
Oct 17, 2019 · 07:13 pm
Teenager’s electrocution: The litany of complaints against OYO Rooms just got a lot more serious
Oct 17, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Why is the Sunni Waqf board now ready to give up the Babri Masjid land for a Ram temple?
Yesterday · 06:30 am
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is Left-leaning, people rejected his views: Piyush Goyal
Yesterday · 03:51 pm
Bangladeshi border guards claim they fired at BSF soldiers in ‘self defence’
Yesterday · 08:50 am
Election Commission is under a cloud in India – but its expertise is much in demand around the globe
Set up in 2011, the EC’s India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management has trained officials from over 30 countries to hold polls.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 22, 2019 · 12:30 pm
The Silent Army: 10 reasons why public trust in the Election Commission stands eroded
A series of questionable decisions, and dissent by one of the three top poll body officials, have cast a long shadow over the 2019 general elections.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
&
Mridula Chari
· May 22, 2019 · 07:30 am
The Silent Army: How EC accountants try to track poll expenses with rate lists and shadow registers
But even they are sceptical about the poll body’s ability to trace all the money that goes into a campaign.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 19, 2019 · 06:30 am
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Yesterday · 04:40 pm
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Yesterday · 02:57 pm
Caught on camera: Two adult tigers in an intense fight at Ranthambore National Park
Yesterday · 02:44 pm
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Yesterday · 01:35 pm
The Silent Army: For two lakh CRPF jawans, election time means a discovery of India
There is some sightseeing along the way, some photography.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 14, 2019 · 07:30 am
The Election Fix: Have BJP’s attempts to solve India’s education problems done more harm than good?
The government’s piecemeal efforts over the last five years have ensured that the challenge to educate India’s huge youth population remains unaddressed.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
&
Nithya Subramanian
· May 12, 2019 · 09:30 am
Government jobs, Jat agitation, split in a state party are helping BJP in Haryana
In 2016, non-Jats were angry with the BJP for failing to control violence during the Jat agitation. But they are sympathetic to the ruling party now.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 10, 2019 · 09:00 am
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‘Laal Kaptaan’ movie review: Saif Ali Khan-starrer is nasty, brutish and too long
Yesterday · 07:45 am
‘P Se Pyaar F Se Farraar’ movie review: The adults in the room eclipse the lovers on the run
Yesterday · 07:30 am
‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ movie review: Lots of dazzle with a drizzle of tears
Yesterday · 07:00 am
An old man and his dog have something to say about coal mining in Chhattisgarh
Oct 17, 2019 · 11:30 am
‘Kastoori’ preview: A bright Dalit student struggles against taunts that he ‘smells like the gutter’
Oct 16, 2019 · 08:00 am
In the shadow of Gurugram, one of India’s most backward districts votes without hope
Its residents believe that the area has been neglected by successive governments because it is a Muslim-majority district.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 08, 2019 · 07:00 am
The Silent Army: When it comes to monitoring parties’ social media campaigns, EC guidelines flounder
The poll body still has no realistic method to track model code of conduct violations on social media.
Mridula Chari
&
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· May 03, 2019 · 12:30 pm
The Silent Army: Meet the intimidators who are briefly banished during the polls
But people so labelled deeply resent that label.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
· Apr 30, 2019 · 07:30 am
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Yesterday · 09:53 pm
Why NBA is struggling to balance its social values with the China market and the lessons from it
Yesterday · 09:45 pm
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