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Saumya Kalia

New Delhi

Independent Journalist at Freelance

Staff Writer at The Hindu

writing and building things @BehanBox + @Report4theWorld • ex @the_hindu, @TheSwaddle • words in @ajenglish @thecaravanindia @frontline_india

Articles

  • 1 week ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia

    Between May 7 and 11, two kinds of warfare were on display: one of military power as armies exchanged drones, artillery, and shells across the India-Pakistan borders and another, of narratives. The latter was manufactured in part by television studios that showed incorrect footage, quoted “unnamed officials”, reported on events that never happened, and declared the enemy “defeated” more than once.

  • 1 week ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia

    In our editorial series BehanBox Talkies, we explore ideas through the lens of scholars.

  • 2 weeks ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia |Shreya Raman

    Ragini*, wearing the sky blue uniform shirt with the BluSmart emblem over her kurta, sits in a sea of grievances. There are placards that object to the sudden suspension of more than 10,000 drivers overnight and appeal for compensation and government support. Ragini and her friend Ambika* hold another one asking for worker unions. “BluSmart ki vajah se hum bahar nikle hain. Inhone hi humein kaam sikhaya hain.

  • 1 month ago | behanbox.com | Saumya Kalia

    Heat action plans drafted by states and cities in India do not take enough cognisance of the vulnerabilities of marginalised social groups who labour and live in conditions that exacerbate heat stress, say climate experts and labour activists. In doing so, they often erase local contexts and communities and fail to integrate labour rights or urban planning into heat action.

  • 1 month ago | thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia

    (In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)It truly seems to be the age of innovation that we are living in, not in the conventional sense of the term, but innovation at a pace that we have never seen before. It seems as if the development of the COVID vaccine in record time has been like a magic wand that’s opened up a Pandora’s box of possibilities.

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10 May 25

RT @suhasinih: Govt sources counter US President Trump and US Sec State statement, say that the "stoppage of firing and military action bet…

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10 May 25

RT @JamwalNidhi: Air quality data from rural India is few and far between. A group of village women from Jharkhand are set to change it. Th…

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9 May 25

Chandigarh puts in place for two months prohibitions on bursting firecrackers during religious ceremonies, weddings

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