Sameer Yasir
Journalist at The New York Times
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Sep 25, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Sameer Yasir
3 hours agoA video of singer Arijit Singh is going viral. Singh, who is currently on a tour of the UK, was seen standing up for a female fan after a security personnel allegedly grabbed her by the neck. In the video going viral on social media, Singh is heard apologizing to the female fan. In this clip, the …
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Sep 25, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Sameer Yasir
At least 46 people drowned in the eastern Indian state of Bihar as millions of Hindu devotees were celebrating a three-day festival for the well-being of children, officials said on Thursday. Thirty-seven of those who died were children and seven were women, according to a statement released by the government of Bihar State.
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Sep 17, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Sameer Yasir |Showkat Nanda
The Tao cafe in Srinagar, capital of the disputed Kashmir region in India, is a bustling place. At outdoor tables shaded by majestic trees, Himalayan trout is served with loaves of fresh bread to the young, affluent Kashmiris who frequent it. But when conversation turns to politics, a hush falls, even though it's an election season. People describe a loss of direction, a drift into an unsettled future. They are not sure what place mostly Muslim Kashmir has in an increasingly Hindu-nationalist India.
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Aug 26, 2024 |
jill.substack.com | Mariam Zaki |Barbara F. Walter |Anupreeta Das |Sameer Yasir
Photo by Nick Hillier on UnsplashHappy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. How Egypt’s abortion ban is pushing women towards dangerous black market practicesby Mariam Zaki in The New ArabDemocracy Needs the Loserby Barbara F.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
watoday.com.au | Anupreeta Das |Sameer Yasir
By Anupreeta Das and Sameer Yasir August 24, 2024 — 4.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student boarded a bus in New Delhi a little after 9pm, expecting it would take her home. Instead, she was gang-raped and assaulted so viciously with an iron rod that her intestines were damaged. She died days later as India erupted in rage.
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“Why should there be a difference between worker and worker,” Ela Bhatt asked in an interview with The New York Times in 2009, “whether they are working in a factory, or at home or on the footpath?” https://t.co/lMV7dXXXT1
Public attention has focused on the pollution in Delhi this week, one Indian environmental activist said, but hundreds of millions of people in northern India are also suffering from some of the worst air pollution they have seen in years. https://t.co/8ClYucjOPJ
"Every culture wants to memorialize its dead. Every family needs the missing to be identified to reach closure. Perhaps that is why a wartime mass grave offends something so deep in the human conscience." https://t.co/HrhLYqjUpU