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Parvathi Benu

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Chennai, Kochi
As seen in: The CapTable, Medium, Flipboard, The Hindu Business Line, The New Indian Express, YourStory, Edex Live
Covers:  Education, Politics, Features, Gender
Data Journalist @thecaptableco | Ex @businessline @newindianexpress @Morningcontext | @statedept alumna | Lymphoma Survivor

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A journalist with over four years of experience, Parvathi Benu writes on education, politics, gender and contemporary human rights issues for The New Indian Express. Keen on education-related issues and politics, she was a US Department of State Professional Fellow in 2019, where she worked with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, to understand the mental health initiatives that the department undertook, to improve the quality of education.

She is an alumna of the Indian Institute of J…

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A day in the life of an Anganwadi worker in Kerala, during the time of COVID-19

A day in the life of an Anganwadi worker in Kerala, during the time of COVID-19

Anganwadi workers in Kerala have been distributing groceries to children's homes, after the centres closed, o…

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Why these Kerala politicians posting photos of distributing TVs to kids for online classes is unl...

Why these Kerala politicians posting photos of distributing TVs to kids for online classes is unl...

On November 18, 2019, the Director of Public Instruction, Government of Kerala had issued a circular to all t…

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How Aule Space is building a ‘jetpack’ to extend the lives of satellites

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By Parvathi Benu Verified
| YourStory
Picture yourself driving a car. You reach your destination and get ready for the return journey, only to realise that you’ve run out of fuel. “You wouldn’t abandon your car, would you?” asks Jay Panchal. When the answer is an obvious no, 25-year-old Panchal proceeds to ask the next question–why would one do that for satellites then? “There are privately-owned geostationary satellites worth over $100 billion currently in orbit.
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Tax sops for data centres are a good start, but bigger tests await

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By Thimmaya Poojary, Parvathi Benu Verified, Pradip K. Saha
| The CapTable Verified
According to the Government’s latest projection, India’s power demand from artificial intelligence data centres will rise to 26.3 GW by 2031-32. This is almost a doubling of the Government’s own estimate made earlier this year. The country’s current data centre capacity is just around 1.5 GW. For capacity to catch up with demand, considerable investment has to flow in. Read this article for free In addition, access 50+ archived articles and 3 new articles every month Sign In Got a tip?
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Why embedded finance has become core to agritech

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By Parvathi Benu Verified, Pradip K. Saha, Rekha Balakrishnan
| The CapTable Verified
A Bengaluru court ruled in favour of agritech platform Ninjacart in a case against Rajput Traders, a wholesale agricultural trader based in Howrah, West Bengal, in April this year. Ninjacart, one of the country's best-funded agritech companies, had sued the trader for defaulting on a Rs 10 lakh working capital loan. The company has filed at least five similar petitions this year. This is a premium article and available only to subscribers.
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