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Dear Reader,
Last week’s events in Assam’s Darrang district, where three people were killed and 14 others injured in police shooting, have led to an uproar. The anxieties were not just on account of the human toll and the manner of the police action but centered on the communal and polarising undertones.
EastMojo does a detailed report from Dhalpur, a village in Sipajhar tehsil, on the history, the events and the potential aftermath of the shooting. And, HW News analyses the events to conclude that the state cannot base its actions on “hate” and “vendetta” against communities – especially given Assam’s troubled past.
Even as India grapples with the race to vaccinate its adult population before the end of the year, there is pressure to restart the export of India-made vaccines to richer nations. For instance, as The Caravan reports, 600 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines, manufactured in Hyderabad, are likely to be exported to Europe and the US. A pressure that must be resisted if India is to achieve its own vaccine numbers.
Article 14 talks to and chronicles the story of the families of two men from Kerala serving a 10-year sentence for espionage in the UAE for ‘supplying sensitive information’ to officials at the Indian embassy. After being detained, their wives allege, the men were denied legal and diplomatic support despite laws mandating assistance from the Indian government.
And in a direct impact of Khabar Lahariya’s reporting, on how stray cattle were incessantly eating away farmers’ crops in the Agrahunda village in Chitrakoot district of MP, the administration built a ‘Gaushala’ to house close to 600 cows.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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