Tabassum Barnagarwala
Health Reporter at Scroll.in
Keen on health, rural & social issues | Journalist with @scroll_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | @ICFJ Fellow| Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
Munni Shaikh and her sister live in a small room in Dharavi, one of the densest and largest slums in Asia. In this poorly lit 100-square-foot room, they do thread-work to earn Rs 250 per day. Right outside their room is an open drain, where rats scurry. Last year, when Shaikh heard of plans to redevelop the slum, she was excited. She submitted documents to government officials as proof of her residence. But now the 36-year-old Shaikh is worried.
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
For over two years, Rajeshwar Madankar has struggled with constant body pain and headaches. It began when the 27-year-old farmer from Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district sprayed the insecticide, chlorpyrifos, on his cotton farm one morning. He made the mistake of not covering his face. “That day it was windy, and I accidentally inhaled some of the insecticide,” he said. By the evening, he had a headache. In a few days, he was vomiting almost every evening.
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3 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala
On May 7, as India launched military strikes in Pakistan, the government quietly released a tranche of data that to a great extent reveals the true cost of the Covid-19 pandemic. India recorded at least 37.4 lakhs excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 compared to two pre-Covid years, 2018 and 2019, according to the data on registered births and deaths released last week.
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3 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Ayush Tiwari |Nolina Minj |Rokibuz Zaman |Tabassum Barnagarwala
For four days, Pratham Mahato had been glued to his mobile phone, watching news updates on the India-Pakistan conflict while making and serving tea at his makeshift shop in Ranchi, Jharkhand. On May 7, the day India had launched strikes on alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mahato was exultant. “The government has done the right thing,” he told Scroll.
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4 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Vaishnavi Rathore
The Indian Army announced on Friday morning that it had “effectively repulsed” numerous attacks from Pakistan that used “drones and other munitions” along the country’s western border late into the previous night. The attacks came after India struck nine sites in Pakistan, in what it described as a “focused, measured and non-escalatory” response to the killings by terrorists of 26 civilians in Pahalgam on April 22.
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