“Do not come to Ethiopia if you don’t have a media permit. You will be incarcerated. Do not come to Ethiopia if you don’t have a media permit. You will be incarcerated. Do not come to Ethiopia if you don’t have a media permit. You will be incarcerated.” I had…
Posts published by “Soma Basu”
While Ethiopia celebrates the naming of Abiy Ahmed, from the protest-hit areas of Oromo, as the new prime minister, Anuaks, a Nilotic tribe, 900 km away from the country capital, see no ray of hope. The declaration of emergency and consequent unrest pushed them into a state of great uncertainty. Just…
When the Kashmir valley is on the boil, and newspapers spew casualty toll, the tribe of journalists, covering the conflict in such hostile environment, remain forgotten. So, three mobile journalists ~ Archit Sinha, Shubhankar Basu and Ashish Joshi ~ travel across the state to meet the reporters who risk their…
It is around 40° Celsius in Varanasi. Just climbing a few weathered stairs of the ghats is enough to make one wonder whether the heart is beating or the head. The slow, monotonous drum beating inside one’s body drowns all the noise of the busy chaotic ghats. Even as the…
Three years ago, when Sushila Thapa managed to flee from a brothel in Mumbai to her native village in Nepal, the big scar on her back did not matter. What mattered to her more was that she was home alive. A year later, when she saw another woman with a…
Cleaning the Ganga was a major election plank for the victorious Narendra Modi-led NDA. The same Ganga where 80% of untreated waste is dumped in from 138 open drains. So when I decided to take a journey down the river, I did what no traveller does. Instead of the ghats,…