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  • ‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre
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    ‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre

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    From the fall of Islamabad to an attack on Karachi: 5 fake stories that Indian TV news ran with

  • Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app
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    Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app

  • Godi media fake news: spreading panic, escalating war tensions
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    Godi media fake news: spreading panic, escalating war tensions

  • India-Pakistan conflict: Rajouri bureaucrat killed in Pakistani shelling
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    India-Pakistan conflict: Rajouri bureaucrat killed in Pakistani shelling

  • Rush Hour: India alleges Pakistan used civilian planes as shield, ‘The Wire’ website blocked & more
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    Rush Hour: India alleges Pakistan used civilian planes as shield, ‘The Wire’ website blocked & more

  • Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is
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    Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is

  • How to keep yourself safe and informed in a time of conflict
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    How to keep yourself safe and informed in a time of conflict

  • ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ review: A bitter pill to swallow
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    ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ review: A bitter pill to swallow

  • Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women
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    Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women

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‘India’s workforce is not the bright boys of Bengaluru’: Journalist P Sainath on the migrant crisis

‘The country is beginning to learn what a gigantic force migrant labour is in running this country.’

Scroll Staff
May 08, 2020 · 08:31 am
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"You're suddenly finding a lot of sectors hamstrung by the disappearance of the migrant labor that made them. So the country is beginning to figure out who its workforce is. And it's not the bright boys of Bengaluru" pic.twitter.com/NaCpSgjGkh

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