Mekhala Saran (@mekhala_saran) 's Twitter Profile
Mekhala Saran

@mekhala_saran

Global Media and Digital Communications @SOAS University of London

Formerly: Principal Correspondent - Legal @thequint

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calendar_today07-06-2016 06:08:00

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In this conversation on The Wire's weekly show The Wire Wrap, I join Seema Chishti and Jahnavi Sen in discussing “deportations” in Assam, demolitions in Delhi, the Air India plane crash and India’s abstention from the UNGA resolution on Gaza ceasefire. youtu.be/i-KY6WhyTPs?fe…

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Don’t miss this important & incisive sweep by Mekhala Saran on 2 of the most pressing issues in India at the moment – forced “pushbacks” of people across the India-Bangladesh border & forced demolition of jhuggis in Delhi. Both blatant subversion of law. youtube.com/watch?v=i-KY6W…

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#TheWireWrap | Fatal Plane Crash, Demolitions, Deportations: Who's Accountable? Jahnavi Sen in conversation with Mekhala Saran and Seema Chishti Full Episode: youtu.be/i-KY6WhyTPs?fe…

#TheWireWrap | Fatal Plane Crash, Demolitions, Deportations: Who's Accountable?

<a href="/jahnavi_sen/">Jahnavi Sen</a> in conversation with <a href="/mekhala_saran/">Mekhala Saran</a> and <a href="/seemay/">Seema Chishti</a> 

Full Episode: youtu.be/i-KY6WhyTPs?fe…
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#TheWireWrap | Fatal Plane Crash, Demolitions, Deportations: Who's Accountable? Jahnavi Sen in conversation with Mekhala Saran and Seema Chishti Full Episode: youtu.be/i-KY6WhyTPs?fe…

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#TheWireWrap | Jahnavi Sen is joined by Mekhala Saran and Seema Chishti to discuss how Assam authorities are allegedly forcing people into Bangladesh without due process, raising serious legal and human rights concerns. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=i-KY6W…

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Every time i see Palestinian kids struggle for a single Parle G my heart breaks. A packet here costs 10rs ( about 0.15 USD)

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Demolitions are happening all across Delhi. It's inhumane, people are being left stranded, forced to live among the rubble of their broken homes. Houses and shops have been torn down, people displaced, and many more now fear impending displacement.

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Hello friends and comrades, please help us collect adequate funds for litigation costs to secure rehabilitation for the residents of Wazirpur who are with their little children and pets of the jhuggi trying to gather their belongings in the scorching Delhi heat. We need your help

Hello friends and comrades, please help us collect adequate funds for litigation costs to secure rehabilitation for the residents of Wazirpur who are with their little children and pets of the jhuggi trying to gather their belongings in the scorching Delhi heat. We need your help
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Daring, Fearless and Kind, Father Stan Swamy Remains a Beacon of Resistance. On the fourth anniversary of Father Stan's death due to alleged medical negligence in prison… thewire.in/politics/right…

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Hany Babu was booked under the stringent UAPA. However, independent experts have questioned the charges & the credibility of the evidence cited. scroll.in/article/108414… “If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.

Hany Babu was booked under the stringent UAPA. However, independent experts have questioned the charges &amp; the credibility of the evidence cited.

scroll.in/article/108414…
“If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.
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5 years ago, Hany Babu 's mother used to tell his wife Jenny Rowena: “Tell them to let Babu out, his mother is waiting.” Now, Jenny tells me she has stopped saying that also. "She is literally getting tortured". scroll.in/article/108414… via Scroll.in

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“Hany Babu now completes 5 years in jail”, Jenny Rowena said. “What is the logic of keeping people as undertrials for so long?” Mekhala Saran spoke to Jenny, prof at DU & Babu’s wife, to understand her, their daughter’s & Babu’s mother’s ordeal. scroll.in/article/108414…

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‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family Don't miss this wrenching piece by Mekhala Saran scroll.in/article/108414… via Scroll.in

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“I think this is the punishment,” his wife, Jenny Rowena said. “They know that if they hold a trial, there is no case.” scroll.in/article/108414… Hany Babu was booked under the UAPA. It takes several years before a UAPA case reaches its conclusion – and even then the conviction

“I think this is the punishment,” his wife, Jenny Rowena said. “They know that if they hold a trial, there is no case.”

scroll.in/article/108414…
Hany Babu was booked under the UAPA. It takes several years before a UAPA case reaches its conclusion – and even then the conviction
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Replug | “It’s a battle, and I have fought without any rancour or any bitterness towards anybody.” scroll.in/article/106934… Sahba Husain relinquished her freedom to spend nearly two years in house arrest in a makeshift room with her partner of 30 years. Husain spoke to

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court denied anticipatory bail to cartoonist Hemant Malviya, who was booked for drawing an "undignified" caricature of RSS and PM Narendra Modi. MP Police had filed an FIR against Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya in May following complaints from RSS

The Madhya Pradesh High Court denied anticipatory bail to cartoonist Hemant Malviya, who was booked for drawing an "undignified" caricature of RSS and PM Narendra Modi. MP Police had filed an FIR against Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya in May following complaints from RSS
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Since Rekha Gupta became Delhi CM, bulldozers have hit 23 settlements, displacing 15,000+ families. Despite claims of rehab before evictions, courts and officials remain ruthless and complicit. Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/society/delhi-…

Since Rekha Gupta became Delhi CM, bulldozers have hit 23 settlements, displacing 15,000+ families. Despite claims of rehab before evictions, courts and officials remain ruthless and complicit.

<a href="/frontline_india/">Frontline</a> 

frontline.thehindu.com/society/delhi-…