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Rohini Mohan
Rohini Mohan is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘Worse than a death sentence’: Inside Assam’s sham trials that could strip millions of citizenship
An analysis of 515 orders issued by four tribunals shows 82% of people on trial were declared foreigners.
Rohini Mohan
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Bengaluru garment hub’s dirty secret: Sexual harassment in the workplace
A root cause of this is the power imbalance – the majority of workers are women while the middle and senior management are disproportionately male.
Rohini Mohan
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‘Locals have become too aware of their rights’: Why Bengaluru garment factories are hiring migrants
The fashion industry’s requirements for cheaper and faster labour have prompted companies to focus on rural India.
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As India is battered by severe Covid-19 second wave, where is Narendra Modi and his government?
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‘Ajeeb Daastaans’ review: One episode in the Netflix anthology film is worth the price of the rest
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A century after Nikola Tesla’s failed experiment, 5G may realise his dream of wireless electricity
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The Covid-19 pandemic is raging like never before. Why can’t India suspend the Kumbh?
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India played down new mutant Covid strains to avoid panic – but this may have backfired
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For Bengaluru’s garment hub workers, the minimum wage is actually the maximum wage
From April 2016 to January 2017, apparel exports grew by 4.5%. But the narrative that the cost of labour is squeezing the industry is a constant refrain.
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The Bengaluru garment workers who stitched your branded clothes have probably still not been paid
Small strikes over unpaid wages continue to erupt in garment hub that saw massive protests last year.
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Indianise, nationalise, spiritualise: The RSS education project is in expansion mode
The Sangh has been running thousands of schools and gurukuls since 1952. But with the BJP at the Centre, this programme has new energy.
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Non-fungible tokens: Watch Jimmy Fallon list the facts and the fiction
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Watch: Meet Asif Sultani from Afghanistan, all set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics for Team Refugee
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‘Better start walking’: White US Army officer assaults Black man, demands he leaves neighbourhood
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Watch: Large sections of Jurassic Coast cliff collapse in UK’s biggest rockfall in 60 years
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Watch: Abandoned baby chimp born with broken ribs has ecstatic reunion with human parents
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The winner: Here’s what won Rohini Mohan the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize
An excerpt from ‘The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War’.
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Sri Lanka: Life amidst death when the guns stopped firing
As Sri Lanka goes to the polls, an excerpt from a book about what the civil war did to its people.
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