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Sukanya Roy

(She/ They)
Kolkata, New Delhi
As seen in: Substack, Scroll.in, The Wire (India), TwoCircles.net, The Polis Project, Maktoob, Village Square, ISignal
Covers:  Human rights; issues affecting marginalized communities in India; public policy; environment; culture
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Dalits, Adivasis of a Bengal village protest against industrial expansion in inhabited area - Mak...

Dalits, Adivasis of a Bengal village protest against industrial expansion in inhabited area - Mak...

In Sishujhumra village, in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, a quiet movement of local residents is brewing …

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Despite NALSA, Transgender Persons Absent In Government Policies In West Bengal - BehanBox

Despite NALSA, Transgender Persons Absent In Government Policies In West Bengal - BehanBox

Silk (28), a transwoman, was in for a shock as she went to cast her vote in Kalyani, in Nadia district of Wes…

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No man's land is no woman's land either: The fraught relationship between residents and the Borde...

No man's land is no woman's land either: The fraught relationship between residents and the Borde...

The international border between India and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), drawn as a result of the 1947…

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30 Years of SC/ST PoA Act

30 Years of SC/ST PoA Act

Lacks in implementation and legal loopholes of the Act; as well as it's crucial necessity now more than ever.

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Murder of 8-year-old Dalit girl in Thoothukudi reveals caste prejudice at play

Murder of 8-year-old Dalit girl in Thoothukudi reveals caste prejudice at play

The abysmal rate of conviction under the SC/ST PoA Act, combined with rising incidents of violence against Da…

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A 'dam'ned history of development: Horrific track record of dams in North-East India - Maktoob

A 'dam'ned history of development: Horrific track record of dams in North-East India - Maktoob

On 9 June 2020, the Baghjan oil well in Assam's Tinsukia district caught fire. Locals say that signs of an im…

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Punjab’s hockey villages dribble past lost touch for Paris Olympics bronze

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By Kumar Gaurav, Aatreyee Dhar Verified, Sukanya Roy
| Village Square
Sansarpur, Mithapur, and Khusropur — these are not just any villages in Punjab’s Jalandhar district. They have a storied history of producing world-class hockey players, legends who have represented their nations on the grand stage of the Olympics. Sansarpur alone has gifted the world 14 Olympians — nine for India, four for Kenya, and one for Canada. For generations, young players dreaming of hockey greatness would be told to visit Sansarpur, where the magic of the sport runs deep in the soil.
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Tripura’s “suitcase water purifier” is going places

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By Aatreyee Dhar Verified, Kumar Gaurav, Sukanya Roy, Unnati Sharma Verified
| Village Square
It’s not every day an engineering professor becomes a knight in shining armour. But when Harjeet Nath walked into a school-turned-relief camp for those displaced by the August 2024 Tripura floods, thirsty residents rushed around him. Though the Kalipara school was surrounded by floodwater, safe drinking water was hard to come by. So the professor at the Department of Chemical and Polymer Engineering at Tripura University offered his new innovation – a suitcase-sized portable water purifier.
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Bringing Sufi saints of Bihar from history’s footnotes to its pages

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By Kumar Gaurav, Sukanya Roy, Unnati Sharma Verified
| Village Square
History has been unkind to certain narratives. One such forgotten or misunderstood chronicle is that of the Sufi saints, whose contributions to resisting oppression have largely been lost to time. It is this absence that inspired Syed Amjad Hussain, a 19-year-old writer and descendant of Sufi saints, to document his past. Hussain, who is in his last year of graduation from the Maulana Azad University of Technology in West Bengal, is on a mission to revive the overlooked history of Sufism in Bihar.
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