-The Hindu Underestimation is likely as the CRS is still an imperfect system, with potential sources of error Over the last month, Indian journalists from across the country have accessed and reported on State-level all-cause mortality from the Civil Registration System (CRS), currently confidential and closed to the public. While India’s official death toll from COVID-19 has been suspect from the very beginning — for reasons that are partly institutional and partly...
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Journalist P. Sainath Wins Japan's Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021
-TheWire.in Sainath dedicated the prize to his fellow journalists who are reporting from rural India and to PARI, the news website he founded in 2014. New Delhi: Renowned journalist P. Sainath was the recipients of the Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021, one of Japan’s top awards open to people from all Asian countries for “investigate[ing] impoverished farming villages in India, listen[ing] to voices from the rural population”. The Fukuoka Prize has three categories, Academic...
More »The Kashmiri Stories That Modi’s New Political Dialogue Ignored -Auqib Javeed
-Article-14.com Talks to restart the political process in Jammu and Kashmir did not include its forgotten people: a teenager who disappeared, a murdered shopkeeper and a detained politician, whose cases have been brought to New Delhi’s attention by the United Nations. We tracked down stories the government does not discuss. Srinagar: Mohammad Hussian Wani, 55, does not know that United Nations human-rights experts have mentioned the name of his son, Naseer Ahmad...
More »In Rural India, COVID-19 Outbreaks Have One Standout Feature: Speed -Murad Banaji, Aashish Gupta and Leena Kumarappan
-TheWire.in If the current data is anything to go by, the low death figures reflect poor testing and recording rather than some natural “protection” from severe disease in rural India. Many rural areas were hit hard during India’s devastating recent COVID-19 surge. The scale of this rural epidemic remains largely hidden in official figures. But a flood of news reports tell a tale of infection sweeping rapidly through villages, high mortality, minimal...
More »UP Woman, 5 Children Went Hungry For 2 Months; No Ration, Aadhaar Cards -Alok Pandey
-NDTV.com A senior Aligarh official expressed "surprise" over the fact that the family members had neither a ration card nor Aadhar cards. Aligarh: A 45-year-old woman and her five children are in hospital in western Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town after battling intense hunger for over two months. They were able to get medical help after a local NGO stepped in to help after it was informed of the family's condition.The family members...
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