Ashwini Shukla
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist | Fellow : @PARInetwork & @thibi_co | Previously @thequint | Education @iimckottayam
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1 week ago |
scroll.in | Ashwini Shukla
Sirajoodeen Ansari, a 65-year-old farmer, has watched season after season of hard labour go to waste. “First, I cultivated paddy, but it was completely ruined. Then I planted maize. Again, it was completely destroyed. And when the rabi season arrived, and I sowed wheat, not a single grain was spared by the nilgai,” says the farmer from Murumdag village in Chhatarpur block, Palamu district of Jharkhand. Ansari is not alone.
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1 month ago |
india.mongabay.com | Ashwini Shukla
Stone-crusher operations and mining activities have disturbed the nilgai habitat in Palamu district of Jharkhand. This has led to the nilgai venturing into agricultural fields for food and water and damaging crops which in turn leads to farmer distress and a growing cycle of debt and migration in affected villages.
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1 month ago |
hindi.mongabay.com | Ashwini Shukla
एक दशक से ज्यादा समय तक बंद रहने के बाद झारखंड के पलामू जिले में राजहरा उत्तर कोयला खदान निजी स्वामित्व में फिर से खुल गई है। खदान में काम चालू होने को रोजगार के अवसर के रूप में देखा जा रहा है। हालांकि, ग्रामीणों को डर है कि इससे पर्यावरण को नुकसान हो सकता है। इसमें भूजल का नीचे जाना और विस्फोट से होने वाली तबाही शामिल है। खनन परियोजना को पर्यावरण मंजूरी मिल गई है और अब नदी की धारा मोड़ने पर भी बात होगी। एक जानकार का कहना है कि इससे आस-पास के इलाकों में भूजल पर असर पड़ेगा। एक दशक से ज्यादा...
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2 months ago |
scroll.in | Ashwini Shukla
Supiyar Kanwar’s family grew wheat until the water ran dry. Digging deeper holes didn’t fix it. They switched to mustard, but the water table fell further. Their millet crop also dried up. They looked into micro irrigation, but after many failed tube wells and low water, they couldn’t afford it. Now, half the family has moved to the city to work in factories.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Ashwini Shukla
1 hour agoSeafood industry looks to capitalize on New England's invasive green crabDuxbury, Massachusetts — Jeff Ladd grew up fishing the marshes of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with his father and grandfather. But just below the surface, …4 hours agoThe ranching industry is trying to figure out how to deal with coyotesHuman activity like cutting down forests and pushing out predators have allowed coyotes to thrive across the Great Plains. Agriculture sectors worry about losing livestock to coyotes.
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Excited to share my latest report: ‘Water: Simply a Matter of Caste’ for @PARInetwork Editor: Priti David Link: https://t.co/lhvoy6JDs5
Access to the village handpump in Palamu, Jharkhand is not for everyone, definitely not if you are a Musahar Dalit. https://t.co/DHCqTdyyVK
After a decade of dormancy, the Rajhara North coal mine in #Jharkhand’s Palamu reopens under private ownership. While it promises jobs, locals fear environmental damage—GW depletion, blasting impacts & possible river diversion. For @mongabayindia | Editor: @kundanpandey158
While the Rajhara North coal mine’s revival is seen as an employment opportunity, villagers fear a repeat of past environmental damage, including groundwater depletion and blasting-related destruction. Ashwini Kumar Shukla reports. https://t.co/YifsxFKj62
RT @PARInetwork: Our rural coverage this election season (a thread👇) https://t.co/QMbjagaPXI