De-Notified & Nomadic Tribes constitute about 10% of India's population. They've been mis-categorised as SC, ST & OBC across States, if categorised at all, often depriving them of social welfare & affirmative action. I write for @PARInetworkruralindiaonline.org/en/arti…
Nearly a billion people in the world’s largest democracy are being asked to show documents to prove that they should keep the right to vote.
Our sweeping look at what is behind the recent fury in India -- and what is at stake.
@HariNYT@CopiousNotes27nytimes.com/2026/10/06/world…
The repatriation process involved making a claim to the Oxford University and having difficult conversations about a violent, traumatic past.
nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world…
NEW -- Three Indian sailors died when the U.S. struck the tanker Settebello. Evidence suggests the ship was not moving when it was hit, but had engaged in risky offshore oil transfers in the days before.
w/ @CopiousNotes27@EricSchmittNYTnytimes.com/2026/07/20/world…
Massive, spontaneous crowd of Gen Z in central Delhi, demanding accountability of governments. Multiple police barricading are broken, trying to reach parliament. Govt initiated some talks. @MujMash@CopiousNotes27nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world…
3 Indian sailors became casualties of a war they weren't part of. We reconstructed the final days & hours on the Settebello. Did the US go too far? Did the ship's command fail the crew? Or did both decisions lead to a tragedy?
@pranavbask@EricSchmittNYTnytimes.com/2026/07/20/world…
Indian authorities not completed the Ahmedabad crash investigation so far. Ex pilots raises qs on preliminary report. With @CopiousNotes27@PreetaTweets
Families of Air India Crash Victims Seek Answers One Year On nytimes.com/2026/06/12/world…
That road, last month! The canopies are denser during the monsoons.
“Every tree I plant are my children. I am alive in each of them.”
nytimes.com/2026/02/06/world…
“Today, that road — once dusty and filled with parched travelers — is a green corridor lined with hundreds of towering trees that form a sprawling canopy.”
@CopiousNotes27nytimes.com/2026/02/06/world…
...the org that commands enormous sway over India does so with little transparency or accountability. It operates without maintaining detailed records, has accumulated vast riches...
A profile, an indictment, in its centenary year by @MujMash & @HariNYTnytimes.com/2025/12/26/world…
One of the attackers who killed 15 in Bondi was found to originally hail from Hyderabad. Sajid Akram was one of the 6 million Muslims from India who live abroad seeking better lives. nytimes.com/2025/12/21/world…
Deeply reported story of lost nuclear device at Nanda Devi in a joint covert operation of CIA & Indian agencies in 1965 with new details.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/interactive/2025… With @gettleman
“My eyes burn all the time. Some days, I get tired very early,” Deepak Rawat, 31, said, trying to suppress a frequent cough.
He and his wife dread every winter in Delhi because their children, 6 and 8, fall ill frequently.
“Every year, it is the same.”
nytimes.com/2025/11/30/world…
We spent a day on the streets of Delhi, from dawn to midnight, chronicling residents’ struggle with air that’s “severe and life-threatening” — year after year.
Spoiler alert: 17-20 times above levels safe for breathing at any place we visited.
Free link: nytimes.com/2025/11/30/world…
Human remains of Naga ancestors sat at the @Pitt_Rivers, 5000 miles away from their homeland, entertaining visitors. They could finally be making their way home to be laid to rest. But the process has been anything but simple.
nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world…
@DollyKikon @RRaDNagaland
What Does It Take to Make Your Own Embassy? In India, Not Much.
For almost eight years, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.
@CopiousNotes27nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world…
Very intimate account of personal loss and trauma of a family who lost their only son & daughter in law in Air India crash in Ahmedabad. @CopiousNotes27@MujMash@atulloke
A Father Braces for Life After a Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’ nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world…
“Whoever has been close to me, God has taken them away,” Mr. Patel said one day, in tears. “Uma was close to me. God snatched her away. Radhi was close. She married & left. Harshit & Pooja were close. Now they are also gone.”
Led by @CopiousNotes27. Crushing photos: Atul Loke
How do you cope with a loss that takes your "everything" -- at a time when it isn't much you have left?
We followed Anil Patel for this @nytimes story in the days & weeks after the Air India crash, which took from him more than one can ever imagine.
nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world…