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Ipsita Chakravarty

Ipsita Chakravarty is a Scroll.in staffer.

Going by Home Minister Amit Shah’s logic, to strengthen democracy, Kashmir must lose it first

As Shah visited the Valley, Kashmiri students were booked under terror charges for supporting Pakistan’s cricket team.

Ipsita Chakravarty
· Yesterday · 06:30 am
As the prelude to Lakhimpur Kheri shows, the BJP now speaks the explicit language of violence

In recent weeks, ministers from the ruling party have actively encouraged harm to sections of the population they represent.

Ipsita Chakravarty
· Oct 07, 2021 · 06:30 am
The photographer’s hateful wrath in Assam is not an isolated crime – it has government sanction

The violence on display in the video from the eviction drive at Sipajhar points to police brutality that has become endemic to the state.

Ipsita Chakravarty
· Sep 24, 2021 · 07:07 pm

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