karishma mehrotra
Indian Express
Here are my favorite clips from my three years at the Indian Express.
TOP READS:
Fauci Interview about COVID-19 in India
Not social media, data and boots on the ground gave BJP its edge in 2019
Why are so many Indian Americans planning to vote for Trump in 2020?
George Floyd and anti-CAA: Could this be the moment of reckoning for leaderless movements?
GROUND REPORT: Women labour migrants left behind in return to work
GROUND REPORT: Key ration portability scheme hits snags
Police hunker down on social media in the run-up to Ayodhya verdict
Glaring gaps in the number of corona testing labs
How BJP used data to turn beneficiaries into a voting bloc in 2019
Narrative: Virus as a metaphor, until it’s not
Back-stories and chitti tales: Indian Americans on the US election campaign trail
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FEATURES:
Stop app: How Chinese companies came to dominate India’s digital space
India’s largest conglomerates bank on data center infrastructure
Inside India’s algorithm-driven biryani industry worth crores
The story of the political WhatsApp forwards
Right-wing digital vigilante group outs “anti-national” posts after Pulwama
ELECTIONS: An uncle and a niece duel it out in Bihar
ELECTIONS: Bihari students ponder job prospects in tense general elections
ELECTIONS: YouTubers become political news stars
The first police murmurings to trace the source of WhatsApp forwards
The language problem of the World Wide Web: How to tackle the growing non-English Internet?
Should public policy positions in tech companies influence content decisions?
Regional parties see success on India’s version of Instagram
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INVESTIGATIONS:
Documents show Facebook's "locally illegal" takedowns
ELECTIONS: Low-profile consulting firm manages BJP data
ELECTIONS: Most BJP Facebook ads come from outside party
BJP requests Facebook for takedowns during 2019 elections
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NEWS (technology):
BJP flags 'rival' Facebook pages before elections
Farmer's Protests: the Government tackles dissent on Twitter
Immediate shutdown of Kashmir post-370 abrogation: Not a single dateline from the Valley the day after
With television black out, news from Pakistan comes from social media
WhatsApp forward limit hurts political forwards
India sides with Russia and China on global cyber crime
India’s data bill ‘Orwellian’ power
India’s contact tracing app (Aarogya Setu) predict hotspots with only 1/6 positive cases
Pegasus news puts WhatsApp on the defense, part 2
Jharkhand elections require a rethink for digital strategy
Government plans migrant database and job portal after migrant crisis
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NEWS (health):
Health infrastructure only one per cent of Smart City Projects
Urban frontline health worker program neglected
DATA: COVID-19 spreads to the Eastern states
India’s early testing strategy logic
Exclusive Interview: India's ICMR takes first steps against COVID-19
COVID-19 positivity rises in random resting amongst symptomatics
DATA: How India’s COVID-19 testing, cases compare globally
Data Analysis: Migrant trains head from red zones to green
Data Analysis: COVID hotspots continue to shift
Data Analysis: Bihar becomes worrisome COVID hotspot
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NEWS (migration and urbanisation)
GROUND REPORT: Eastern states brace for a second migrant wave home
India's first migrant policy, explained
Exclusive: India's first migrant policy
Urban sewage plans: to dig or not?
Exclusive: Tap water connections new focus of government
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NEWS (misc):
GROUND REPORT: Lawyers help detainees entrapped in anti-CAA protests and arrests
Exclusive interview: Assam’s NRC coordinator speaks up