Priya Ramani
@priyaramani.bsky.social
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Journalist obsessed with narratives of love and hate
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6 months ago
Why is Jaswant Singh Khalra’s story so scary to those blocking the film? Because his life illustrates clearly what it takes to spread light in the midst of darkness. Subscribe to read the full edit note by
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Blaft Publications
6 months ago
Blaft's graphic novel offerings include Appupen's debut MOONWARD, Yukichi Yamamatsu's STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (an autobiographical manga set in Delhi), and the 25th anniversary edition of Orijit Sen's RIVER OF STORIES (the first ever Indian graphic novel)
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How’s it going on Bluesky? My latest, on substack
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The Newspaper Everyone Should Be Reading Now
We officially live in a world where empathy is bad and everything is designed to help you overcome your empathetic feelings.
https://priyaramani.substack.com/p/the-newspaper-everyone-should-be
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Can’t wait to read
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8 months ago
"Demanding
#education
is not anti-national." PhD scholar Ramadas PS to
@itsswati.bsky.social
, as TISS,
#Mumbai
suspended him for 2 yrs in 2024 for joining a protest on education policies. On 12 March 2025, the Bombay HC dismissed his suspension challenge.
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Betwa Sharma
8 months ago
The ideal of the apolitical citizen, who participates in politics once every 5 years & returns to a political quarantine, benefits those in power. Kunal Kamra's Naya Bharat calls on Indians to reclaim politics, writes Kavitha Iyer To read, subscribe
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8 months ago
Considering how difficult it can be to achieve justice in cases when the ruling party desires a specific outcome, it is rare to encounter orders & judges who adhere strictly to the law, writes
@betwasharma.bsky.social
. She tells us of those who do. To read, subscribe
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8 months ago
"There cannot be freedom of speech without the right to offend" Activist Feroze to Swati on the risks of speaking out in
#India—dissenters
face legal action, demolitions & surveillance, as seen after
#KunalKamra's
video
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Kunal Kamra & The Right To Offend | Article 14
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Betwa Sharma
9 months ago
No generation before us has witnessed a live streamed genocide. And certainly no generation before us has witnessed a live streamed genocide while shopping for hand-tufted woollen rugs....
@priyaramani.bsky.social
on the peak cognitive dissonance of our times
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Gish Gallop
9 months ago
Steve Liesman perfectly sums up every one of us that are losing our 401k, retirement etc
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What’s the fascism count?
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Stunning new piece on my substack about fangirling, failure and tangerines.
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GUEST POST: For Today, Don't Even Dream
Fangirling on Korean boy band BTS helped me navigate failure and depression
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9 months ago
On 5 March, a Delhi court sentenced a man to 10 years for a 2017 acid attack on a man & his two minor daughters, awarding them Rs 20 lakh compensation. Our report on the case, the legal battle led by Brave Souls Foundation & systemic delays in acid attack convictions.
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A Rare Victory: Delhi Acid Attack Verdict | Article 14
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Blaft Publications
9 months ago
Indian pulp fiction in translation, Anti-Caste SF & more! Free shipping within India! Ebooks available! We ship worldwide, too, & while the shipping is a bit pricy, Indian book prices are comparatively low, so it kinda works out! (Especially if you buy 2+ books!)
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9 months ago
Bela Bhatia’s book India’s Forgotten Country traces 3 decades of state coercion, corporate interests & democratic erosion across
#India
. From
#Gujarat
to
#Kashmir
, her essays document the suppression of dissent & the complicity of elites, writes Ashoka Mody
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India’s Forgotten Country: How State Power & Capitalism Without Checks Fuel The Totalitarian Temptation
In this guest article, economist and writer ASHOKA MODY connects the dots from writer, activist and human rights lawyer Bela Bhatia’s account of her activism to state coercion, corporate interests and...
https://article-14.com/post/india-s-forgotten-country-how-state-power-capitalism-without-checks-fuel-the-totalitarian-temptation-67c51cfd8b66b
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9 months ago
Our interview from the archives with Banu Mushtaq, whose short story collection Heart Lamp has made it to the 2025 Booker Prize long list. By Basav Biradar
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9 months ago
In Ways of Remembering, Oishik Sircar examines how law & Bollywood shaped collective public memory of Gujarat 2002. A striking study on cinema, courts & Hindutva narratives. Read an exclusive excerpt here
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Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India By Oishik Sircar
Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the...
https://article-14.com/post/ways-of-remembering-law-cinema-and-collective-memory-in-the-new-india-by-oishik-sircar-67c13f5d2d552
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Husband Reading The Newspaper To Me -Episode 3
Intimacy + Unserious News. The Rs 5 food we can't get enough of and more ways to make money in India.
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10 months ago
“The river turned blood that day” Mohammad Ajijul Haque, who lost five family members in
#Assam’s
#NellieMassacre
, recalls what he saw on 18 February 1983 Watch:
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‘The River Turned Blood That Day’: Nellie 42 Years On | Article 14
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So no more pieces like this in WaPo?
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Husband Reading The Newspaper To Me-Episode 1
Intimacy + real news
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10 months ago
"Kula comes from ‘Kul,’ meaning a clan, a tribe, a community. As the world grows uncertain, art is becoming ‘you’ vs ‘me’—traditional vs modern. But there’s space for all to coexist" Andre Tully, Kula Worldwide 2025, celebrating diverse art in
#Mumbai
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'The Art of the Have-Nots': Tattoo Culture | Article 14
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10 months ago
Our story on the covert attack on press freedom by Kavitha Iyer in today’s
@niemanlab.org
digest.
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Backlash, Bailiffs, Bankruptcy: The Unmaking Of Independent, Public-Spirited Journalism In India
A new crackdown has left independent news websites, such as The File and The Reporters' Collective, grappling with financial uncertainty and the threat of closure, undermining their ability to continu...
https://article-14.com/post/backlash-bailiffs-bankruptcy-the-unmaking-of-independent-public-spirited-journalism-in-india--67b2ad2229e63
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The resistance will unfold on Blue Sky…or not :) This place is still dead
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The same medium, space words and format are used to promote the annihilation of democracy and the drift to shampoo bars.
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Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)
10 months ago
What if sharing a love story was an act of resistance? ❤️💪 On a
#ValentinesDay
special episode of the
#JHRPodcast
, we sit down w/ journalist
@priyaramani.bsky.social
to discuss the
#IndiaLoveProject
— a bold and inspiring movement celebrating interfaith, intercaste & LGBTQ+ relationships in
#India
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10 months ago
On 24 Feb 1990, Delhi police beat 5 young Muslim & forced to sing the national anthem. One of them died5 yrs later, a court has ordered an FIR The fact that many regard this as a victory is a tragedy, writes
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Dekoder only
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Priya Ramani on Substack
Want to know what it’s like being a journalist in India today? Our popular newsletter Field Notes is now on Substack. https://substack.com/profile/22291085-article-14s-field-notes?utm_source=global-...
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How brilliant is this
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The book that won’t forget: Survivors of alleged sexual abuse challenge a Tamil writer's legacy
The worldwide #MeToo movement was adopted by thousands of people who believed in breaking the silence around sexual violence at the workplace. Even as many indi
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10 months ago
Release of Santosh—film about murder of Dalit girl, contender for British Academy Awards—stuck as Censor Board stalls it, one of many films stuck, often for years. Anna M M Vetticad’s 11-month probe into
#India’s
growing ecosystem of censorship
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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries
A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...
https://article-14.com/post/how-a-modi-era-ecosystem-of-official-unofficial-censorship-is-transforming-india-s-film-industries-679fdbcd6f914
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Wrote a new substack post
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Older Women Are Having A Very Visible Moment
I’ve always been a huge champion of young women. Now I’m asking them to forge a new partnership
https://priyaramani.substack.com/p/older-women-are-having-a-very-visible?utm_source=activity_item
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Streaming companies have “internal self-censorship committees” to pre-empt govt & the mob. Film writers, producers & directors censor themselves. Anna M M Vetticad’s 11-month probe into
#India’s
widening ecosystem of censorship
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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries
A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...
https://article-14.com/post/how-a-modi-era-ecosystem-of-official-unofficial-censorship-is-transforming-india-s-film-industries-679fdbcd6f914
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RIP fierce one
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Sanjay Sipahimalani
11 months ago
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
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More “protection” for Indian women
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As Indians share stories of Trump, here’s a Monday morning reality check
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How sociopaths get a makeover. Highly recommend Say Nothing if you haven’t yet seen.
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Being forced to watch R-day parade by husband. Can only hear commentators repeatedly saying words Viksit Bharat and Atmanirbhar, and drowning out gorgeous naval band
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Not only do we not like dogs but we will go to any extent to ensure that others don’t like them too. If anyone knows the woman who filed the case, please connect me
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Star Trek trailer looks nothing like a Star Trek movie Why
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There’s a new Star Trek film?!
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What are all the women and people of colour who voted for Trump saying?
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Betwa Sharma
11 months ago
Since the Delhi police beat up students inside the Jamia campus on 15 Dec 2019, petitions for justice accountability/compensation have been heard 45 times in the Delhi High Court, with 15 benches/20 judges.
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Trump’s spending cuts
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Nope, toddlers don’t hate women
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Apart from his violent behaviour, she says he doesn’t believe women should work or vote.
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Giving sci fi a bad name
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The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.
The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration-broligarchs-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-thiel
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