Ajay Krishnan

In Chhattisgarh, midday meal workers protested for 2 months for a hike in pay from Rs 66 a day, to at least Rs 350. Two workers died in the course of the protest. The protest is adjourned, but workers say they may resume in July. @knowleena reports: scroll.in/article/109113…

More than 60 years after one of India's first thermal power plants was set up, displaced Adivasi families and their descendants continue to struggle for access to basic facilities like water and electricity. @knowleena reports from Bokaro: scroll.in/article/109029…

In 2025, news broke of TN authorities busting a kidney-sale racket in Namakkal. @Johanna_Deeksha visited and found that in some areas, everyone had either sold a kidney or knew someone who had. A chilling story. [paywall] scroll.in/article/109051…

Protestors in Rajasthan are currently on a 700-km march to protect sacred groves or orans. They say that some of the state's renewable energy projects have taken over these lands, which are vital to local economies and ecologies. @_Vaishnavi_R reports: scroll.in/article/109045…

Found out that @anjanaomkashyap is claiming she was misquoted in a @thecaravanindia profile. Every direct quote was played back to her as a matter of professional courtesy, on email. She called to request a minor change in one, it wasn't this quote. youtube.com/watch?v=v3yWD1…

"Like a man seeking protection in women’s protective legislation, able-bodied person saying they face discrimination based on disabilities." @Johanna_Deeksha reports on SC ruling in favour of UC students, who said rules against discrimination hurt them: scroll.in/article/109035…

Odisha police picked up 12 of a family in November, released all but 3. Missing since then, only when @ZamanRokibuz_ contacted the police did the family learn that the 3 elders were forced into Bangladesh. + Claims that they weren't Indian don't hold up. scroll.in/article/109029…

Shimjitha Musthafa's deferred bail plea will be heard today. As rage simmers against her, some argue that her arrest is excessive, and that her actions need to be understood in the wider context of women's safety. @Johanna_Deeksha reports: scroll.in/article/109027…

The "double-farming" of paddy in an Uttarakhand district was draining the water table. @_Vaishnavi_R reports on a decision to ban the practice, and efforts to ensure farmers' livelihoods don't take a hit. scroll.in/article/109011…

Scenic Junnar in Maharashtra saw a spate of fatal leopard attacks in 2025. But why is human-leopard conflict so acute in the region? @tabassum_b and @_Vaishnavi_R unravel the complex web of factors behind the problem, including a sugarcane farming boom. scroll.in/article/109001…

PM Modi launched the Chardham project in 2016. It went ahead though experts warned that cutting fragile slopes was hugely risky. In Oct, @_Vaishnavi_R traveled on the route, and counted 160 landslides in 300km, and a trail of ruined lives + livelihoods. scroll.in/article/108935…

India has deported many scholars in recent years. But a wider repression is also underway: greater scrutiny, endless waits for visas leave many afraid to pursue research here. The potential loss to scholarship is immense. @Johanna_Deeksha reports: scroll.in/article/108918…

In the villages of Jharkhand, fears about witches and witchcraft remain a looming threat to women's lives and safety. @knowleena's chilling story on cases in which such suspicions have lead to women being attacked, and killed. scroll.in/article/108911…

The Indian railways is running special trains up to December 12 along major routes for travellers hit by the Indigo crisis. But travellers are largely unaware of the measure and hundreds of seats are going unbooked. @tabassum_b reports: scroll.in/article/108912…

Some Delhi residents who can afford it have been creating "clean air bubbles" in their homes. Unlike room purifiers, this pressure-regulated system ensures an entire 1500-sq-ft home is filled with clean air. @_Vaishnavi_R's piece on a dystopian present: scroll.in/article/108887…

Great to hear that @knowleena's excellent piece on the confusing, unregulated world of psychological counselling in India has been recognised with an award: scroll.in/latest/1088938…

Tamil Nadu is known as a strong performer in health. But as @Johanna_Deeksha found reporting in the Nilgiris, Adivasis in the region still struggle for basic health services, and face sociocultural alienation after displacement from their forest homes. scroll.in/article/108888…

GN Devy on the very real risk we face of India becoming an "anti-knowledge nation": scroll.in/article/108828…

Feb 2024: the cabinet approves subsidy worth Rs 44k crore for 2 Tata group semiconductor units. Four week later: the group donated Rs 758 crore to the BJP, making it its biggest donor ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. @sighyush investigates: scroll.in/article/108877…

A Jaipur court found in July that an Adani-led firm claimed > Rs 1400 cr in transport fees it wasn't entitled to from a Rajasthan PSU. The HC stayed the judgment, but it revealed key info on a deeply contentious coal contract. @shreegireesh reports: scroll.in/article/108868…