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Mouli Sharma’s Biography

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Mouli Sharma is a journalist from New Delhi, currently reporting for the Kolkata based independent news platform, GroundXero. Her work has appeared in publications like The Mooknayak, Frontline, Maktoob Media, The Observer Post, The Leaflet, Nivarana, The Polis Project, Article 14, Feminism in India, SabrangIndia, NewsClick and others.

Mouli Sharma’s Journalist Portfolio

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One Rigged Exam and You're Pursuing a PhD: Lowered Eligibility Criteria for DU PhD Admissions Sla...

One Rigged Exam and You're Pursuing a PhD: Lowered Eligibility Criteria for DU PhD Admissions Sla...

India's doctoral aspirants, those who have pursued a two-year post-graduate degree and cleared the UGC-NET pr…

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Reading Shakambhari II: The Parallel Empire of Law

Reading Shakambhari II: The Parallel Empire of Law

The petition ultimately asks the Supreme Court to confront not merely the legality of the Noida prosecutions …

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Four Months of Incarceration Without Trial: Workers and Activists Arrested During Noida Protest...

Four Months of Incarceration Without Trial: Workers and Activists Arrested During Noida Protest...

While most of the over 170 people named in the at least 14 FIRs filed in relation to the matter-one of the mo…

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Reading Shakambhari I: 'A Living Wage is Not a Public Order Problem'

Reading Shakambhari I: 'A Living Wage is Not a Public Order Problem'

The Shakambhari writ petition in the Supreme Court is one of several petitions filed by Shakambhari, the wife…

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"We Should Never Have Left Jantar Mantar" - Student Organisations Slam CJP's Decision to Call O...

"We Should Never Have Left Jantar Mantar" - Student Organisations Slam CJP's Decision to Call O...

'Compensation for victims' families, no prosecution of protesters, and a public apology from the police for t…

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The City is a Prison

The City is a Prison

The outrage of over one lakh Indians at 20th July's 'Chalo Sansad' call for Union Education Minister Dharmend…

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Articles

One Rigged Exam and You’re Pursuing a PhD: Lowered Eligibility Criteria for DU PhD Admissions Slammed by Students, Accused of Enabling Corruption

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By Mouli Sharma
| The Mooknayak English
Statistics, though, cannot counter this anti-science sentiment, not when those among even the mere 4,000 NET qualifiers who do hold JRFs (the 0.006%) are left stranded between institutes without the guarantee of a doctoral position. A scholar of Russian, who not only holds a JRF but also has 6 years of teaching experience, was allegedly told by JNU’s Vice-Chancellor Prof.
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The Parallel Empire of Law

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By Mouli Sharma
| groundxero.in
The petition ultimately asks the Supreme Court to confront not merely the legality of the Noida prosecutions (or lack thereof), but the police investigative culture that made them possible. By Mouli Sharma The Shakambhari writ petition, one of several eponymous petitions filed in India’s courts of supposed justice by the imprisoned 60-year-old journalist Satyam Verma’s spouse, is an artifact of the nonsense the UP Police have made of the Noida workers’ protests of April 2026.
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‘A Living Wage is Not a Public Order Problem’

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By Mouli Sharma
| groundxero.in
The Shakambhari writ petition in the Supreme Court is one of several petitions filed by Shakambhari, the wife of the imprisoned sixty-year-old journalist Satyam Verma, across the Indian courts of law in the wake of wave of arrests that took place following mass protests and workers’ strikes in Noida through the second week of April 2026. It is also one of the most revealing documents to emerge from the Uttar Pradesh Police’s response to the same.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering the pan-India protests following the RG Kar rape-murder case in Kolkata as a photojournalist.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I have. As I am a pianist and a writer, it was distinctly memorable.

How is social media changing news?

It is revolutionising it completely; it has made news breaking obsolete, and blurred the lines between opinion and fact more than before.