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Esha Mitra
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CNN,
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CNN International,
CNN Travel,
MSN,
MSN Canada,
BBC,
The Wall Street Journal,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News Australia
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reporting fellow @queerbeat_media | @JSchofieldtrust fellow ‘24 | UCD ‘23 | work: @cnni @wagingnv @AJEnglish @bbc et al.
Esha Mitra’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridTax laws are the latest frontier in queer couples' fight for equal rights
queerbeat.org
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When cis-het couples don't pay tax on gifts they give each other, why should we, ask same-sex couples...
The world's biggest democracy has purged electoral rolls, leaving many without a vote | CNN
CNN International
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Sadre Alam went to war for India. Suprabuddha Sen's grandfather illustrated its first constitution. For decades, both men exercised their rights enshrined in that document to vote in the world's largest democracy.
Half a billion voters. One list. Just seven weeks to clean it up | CNN
CNN International
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A gargantuan task is underway to update the longest voter list in the world. This is India, and that's nearly a billion people whose details need to be verified before they're allowed to participate in the world's largest democracy.
Lethal smog is back in the world's most polluted capital. Residents have had enough | CNN
CNN International
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It's easy to tell when it's smog season in New Delhi; the air gets darker, heavier and starts scratching the throats and testing the lungs of the city's 34 million residents.
How India secretly sent refugees back to the land accused of committing genocide against them | C...
CNN International
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In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who has just been snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled to escape a massacre eight years ago. A country where their community officially does not exist.
Divided by a border, united by fear: Kashmiris pick up the pieces after India-Pakistan step back ...
CNN International
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Mohammad Iqbal was working the nightshift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying artillery shells were exploding around their home.
Indian teenager alleges rape over five years by 60 schoolmates, neighbors, relatives, strangers |...
CNN International
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Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India's most marginalized communities, was allegedly sexually abused by one of her neighbors in the village where she lived.
'Treated like criminals': Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage a...
CNN International
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US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump's migration crackdown.
Sea of Devotees Overwhelms World’s Biggest Religious Festival With Deadly Results
The Wall Street Journal
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Indian officials planned for two years to host the ‘largest congregation of humanity’ safely; tragedy unfolded on busiest day
Women are playing key roles in protests across South Asia. The backlash they face is often heavil...
CNN International
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After the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital and medical college in West Bengal in August, thousands of women across the Indian state took to the streets in protests to "Reclaim the Night."
Doctor's stabbing renews debate over India hospital safety months after rape and murder of medic ...
CNN International
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A knife attack on a doctor in India has renewed an impassioned debate about whether enough is being done to protect medical staff in the world's most populous nation's often crowded and over-stretched hospital wards.
Repression backfires in Pakistan, as oppressed Baloch people hold historic mass protest
Waging Nonviolence
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When authorities cracked down on a one-day gathering in Balochistan, they galvanized a movement against enforced disappearances and killings.
Fighting for their forest: The tribe in India battling for their future against a power source of...
CNN International
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In a central Indian state, tribes have been fighting to save their forest and homes from what's below them: coal. Yet the fuel mined here will not benefit the forest's residents. Instead, it will be sent across the country to a state which struggles to keep the lights on.
'My body can't take it': Brutal nighttime temperatures give Delhi residents little respite from I...
CNN International
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Nights are getting uncomfortably and dangerously hotter in India's capital as people in the world's most populous nation feel little respite from unrelenting temperatures.
BBC World Service - Business Daily, Why are so many young Indians struggling to get jobs?
BBC
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(As Producer) India's youth unemployment rate is among the highest in the world.
India - the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls
RTÉ Radio 1 - FM (Ireland)
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Esha Mitra, Freeland Journalist based in India & Dr. Jivanta Schottli, Assistant Professor in Indian Politics & Foreign Policy & Director of the Ireland India Institute in DCU
How coal mining is destroying one of India’s densest forests—and its tribals
The Established
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THE ESTABLISHED TRAVELS TO CHHATTISGARH’S HASDEO FOREST TO DIG DEEPER INTO WHAT AILS THE TRIBAL POPULATIONS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LAND
How women in Pakistan are fighting enforced disappearances and killings | WNV
Waging Nonviolence
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From a protest encampment in Islamabad, hundreds of women from Balochistan are demanding the return of their missing loved ones.
Married to my rapist: The Indian women saying no | CNN
CNN International
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Behind the closed doors of bedrooms across India, the anachronistic opinions of a 17th Century jurist still guide the rules of sex between husband and wife.
Stateless in your own Country- the lives of declared foreigners in India's Assam
Multi-media masters thesis on the lives of declared foreigners in India's north-eastern state of Assam. (self shot, self produced, self written and self-edited). Filmed on an iPhone 11.
After fleeing FGM, refugees struggle to make ends meet in Ireland | AJE
Al Jazeera English
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After fleeing Sierra Leone to protect her twins from FGM, a refugee battles the odds to make a new life in Ireland.
How India's System Betrays Rape Victims - EA WorldView
EA WorldView
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Ten years after a high-profile case galvanized protest in India, activists and family members see no improvement in security and justice for victims of rape
His house was demolished because he is Muslim, he says | CNN
CNN International
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A spate of communal violence has revealed India's growing Hindu-Muslim division, with many accusing the government of inflaming tensions.