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Ritwika Mitra

@ritwikamitra.bsky.social
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In my latest #Substack interview series, I speak to India's social activist Aruna Roy on how citizens' movements can be sustained and people at the grassroots mobilised. Link to the interview here: ritwikamitra.substack.com/p/there-has-...
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‘There has been an infringement on almost all rights to free expression’
Prominent rights activist Aruna Roy talks on the infringement on rights, the need to understand the governance system to negotiate with the government and reclaiming the idea of plurality
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For #Frontline, I write on the human cost of evictions when the state offers no rehabilitation plans. Link to the full story: frontline.thehindu.com/society/kolk...
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Kolkata Evictions: No Rehabilitation for Slum Dwellers
Kolkata evictions put informal workers at risk as residents face displacement without rehabilitation. Activists demand housing near workplaces and legal aid.
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In this week's #Substack, I converse with lawyer & activist Sudha Bharadwaj on the collective power of unions, extraction of minerals in Chattisgarh, Adivasi rights, and how incarceration made her reflect on the patriarchy of criminal justice system. ritwikamitra.substack.com/p/wherever-w...
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‘Wherever we are, we can try and point in the right direction — like a compass’
Trade unionist, activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj speaks on Adivasi rights, the criminal justice system and how her fight for constitutional values continues
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How does #language turn oppressive when the majority uses it against #minority to normalise #hate? In this conversation with academic Apoorvanand, I ask him about the #language of hate and how it is shaping the political discourse in India. ritwikamitra.substack.com/p/courage-wa...
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‘Courage was all around me: it was not an exception’
Academic Apoorvanand talks about language as a practice of power, the right wing’s appropriation of symbols, and the growing complicity of state institutions
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Launched an interview series on #Substack. So far, I have covered #border politics, #Indian economy, #preventive detention laws, and the state of #Left politics in #WestBengal. A link to today's interview on #Indo-Bangladesh border & #citizenship: ritwikamitra.substack.com/p/the-idea-t...
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‘The idea that a person who crosses the border is a criminal is a new one’
Academic Rimple Mehta talks about crimmigration and border politics, the defining of citizenship in an ethno-nationalist way, and the criminalisation of migrants
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Along the #Indo-Bangladesh border, #childhood is shaped by #fear and #stigma. From #WestBengal's #borderlands, I report on #loss, #securitisation and how it impacts #earlychildhood for Unbias The News. Edited by @tinaleeinberlin.bsky.social. The story: unbiasthenews.org/growing-up-t...
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Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages - Unbias The News
India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Securit...
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Ritwika Mitra @ritwikamitra.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In Jharkhand's #Koderma district, a silent crisis is unfolding -- #women are reeling from #massive debts taken from #microfinance institutions. Unable to repay the loans often taken on other people's names, some have been forced to flee their villages.
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