Imran Muzaffar

India, Jammu and Kashmīr, New Delhi

Journalist and Researcher at Freelance

Academic & journalist | Asst. prof @Woxsen | Grantee @journalismfund | Awardee @ICRC | ✍️ @MongabayOrg, @scroll_in, @newhumanitarian, @epw_in, @DialogueEarth_

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Conservation collides with local rights in fight over Chagos Islands

Jul 21, 2024 | eco-business.com | Imran Muzaffar

Louis Olivier Bancoult was four years old in 1968 when a medical emergency took him and his family away from their island home in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The 2,000-km sea journey from Peros Banhos in the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius was planned as a temporary move so his sister could be treated after an accident. But when they tried to return home, all channels had been sealed.
Conservation collides with local rights in fight over Chagos Islands

Jul 16, 2024 | dialogue.earth | Imran Muzaffar

Louis Olivier Bancoult was four years old in 1968 when a medical emergency took him and his family away from their island home in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The 2,000-km sea journey from Peros Banhos in the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius was planned as a temporary move so his sister could be treated after an accident. But when they tried to return home, all channels had been sealed.
Why India’s Muslims face domestic colonialism in Modi’s third term

Jun 5, 2024 | thenewhumanitarian.org | Imran Muzaffar

Republish this articleOnly two days into India’s six-week-long general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashed yet another tirade against the country’s largest religious minority: Addressing a rally in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi called India’s 200 million Muslims “infiltrators”. The remarks drew widespread ire.
Use of fish aggregators in Indian Ocean remains contentious due to concerns over exploitation

May 17, 2024 | scroll.in | Imran Muzaffar

Anthony Raj is the owner and captain of a fishing boat that has been hunting tuna in the Indian Ocean for years. He and his crew of 11 are preparing for a high seas fishing expedition later in May. It will take them hundreds of nautical miles away from their home in Thathoor, a coastal village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “The ocean is like our mother,” Raj tells Dialogue Earth. “Whenever we turn to it for sustenance, it never sends us back empty handed.
The fight over fish attractors in the Indian Ocean

May 9, 2024 | dialogue.earth | Imran Muzaffar

Anthony Raj is the owner and captain of a fishing boat that has been hunting tuna in the Indian Ocean for years. He and his crew of 11 are preparing for a high seas fishing expedition later in May. It will take them hundreds of nautical miles away from their home in Thathoor, a coastal village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “The ocean is like our mother,” Raj tells Dialogue Earth. “Whenever we turn to it for sustenance, it never sends us back empty handed.
The fight over fish attractors in the Indian Ocean

May 9, 2024 | shorturl.at | Imran Muzaffar

Anthony Raj is the owner and captain of a fishing boat that has been hunting tuna in the Indian Ocean for years. He and his crew of 11 are preparing for a high seas fishing expedition later in May. It will take them hundreds of nautical miles away from their home in Thathoor, a coastal village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “The ocean is like our mother,” Raj tells Dialogue Earth. “Whenever we turn to it for sustenance, it never sends us back empty handed.
Dangerous waters: Indian fishers in search of better catch are venturing into deep sea - and peril

Apr 28, 2024 | scroll.in | Imran Muzaffar |Aliya Bashir

Anthoni Dhasan, 47, sits on the deck of his fishing boat at the harbor of Thengapattanam in Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, peering out at the stormy Indian Ocean. It’s been a year since his last fishing expedition – the one that almost took his life.
Dangerous waters: Indian fishers in search of better catch are venturing into deep sea - and peril

Apr 28, 2024 | shorturl.at | Imran Muzaffar |Aliya Bashir

Anthoni Dhasan, 47, sits on the deck of his fishing boat at the harbor of Thengapattanam in Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, peering out at the stormy Indian Ocean. It’s been a year since his last fishing expedition – the one that almost took his life.
Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Apr 23, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Imran Muzaffar |Aliya Bashir

Many of India’s more than 4 million fishers are sailing beyond the country’s exclusive economic zone into the high seas in search of a better catch. Rising sea surface temperatures, overfishing near the shore, and the destruction of reefs have decimated nearshore fisheries, forcing India’s fishers farther out to sea where they face greater risk.
Indian fishermen suffer exploitation and abuse in UK’s fishing industry

Apr 2, 2024 | shorturl.at | mixing Carnatic |Imran Muzaffar |Aliya Bashir

On a cold January morning in 2023, Mariyappan woke up to an email that would change his life forever. A fishing company in the United Kingdom was offering him a job as a deckhand for a monthly salary of 1,400 pounds, or Rs 1,47,000, an amount that he thought could lift his family out of poverty. Mariyappan, who belongs to a fishing community in Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, immediately accepted the offer, from the Star Fishing Company.