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Asmita Bakshi

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ARTICLES BY ASMITA BAKSHI

Representational image: A worker examines a gate system made by Guard ME that conducts temperature checks and fogs disinfectants on users in Dubai (AP)

Why the draft health data management policy raises red flags about privacy

5 min read . 17 Oct 2021

Ahmer Khan (photo: Siddharth Bokolia)

Emmys 2020: Meet Kashmiri journalist Ahmer Khan, nominated for a CAA documentary

9 min read . 21 Sep 2020

Rachana Mudraboyina coordinated with the state government to ensure cash and ration for members of the trans community in Telangana. (Courtesy Rachana Mudraboyina )

How the LGBTQ+ community fuelled covid-19 relief for all

5 min read . 06 Sep 2020

Ahmed, who started with a passion for gaming and set up game and web hosting servers, moved to the cybersecurity field while he was still in school.

Lounge Heroes | Ehraz Ahmed: The protector of your privacy

4 min read . 05 Sep 2020

Kashmiri journalists hold placards during a protest against a new media policy that was announced last month in Srinagar, (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin) (AP)

Why CPJ is demanding the release of Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan

5 min read . 28 Aug 2020

Kashmir Valley (Photo: AP)

How Kashmir's extended internet shutdown has created a 'digital apartheid'

5 min read . 26 Aug 2020

A file photo of lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Photo: Virendra Singh Gosain/HT

Prashant Bhushan case, free speech, ‘hate speech' and the right to dissent

8 min read . 18 Aug 2020

A robust Environment Impact Assessment is needed to prevent environmental catastrophes like the Baghjan gas leak in Assam. Getty Images

EIA Draft 2020: “Violation of environmental law is seen as development”

5 min read . 17 Aug 2020

A demonstration against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens in Mumbai on 18 December. (Hindustan Times)

The civil disobedience of Indian students

9 min read . 15 Aug 2020

A still from 'Tell Them 'The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown''

Kashmir in six documentaries: More than a newspoint

4 min read . 05 Aug 2020

Paramilitary forces standing guard near a temporary checkpoint in Srinagar on 23 August 2019. (Photo: AP)

Kashmir after Article 370: 'In my view, there should not be an AFSPA'

6 min read . 04 Aug 2020

Shilpa Kumar, 29. (Courtesy Shilpa Kumar)

Lounge Heroes | The healer who found her vocation in the hills

4 min read . 01 Aug 2020

Gurgaon: Students wearing anti-air pollution mask as protective gear as pollution reached hazardous levels in the classroom. Photo: PTI

National Education Policy 2020: An expert's view on classrooms of the future

5 min read . 31 Jul 2020

Fridays for Future India is a volunteer driven and non-funded movement for climate action and justice

EIA Draft 2020: Fridays for Future India talk about activism and terror charges

4 min read . 27 Jul 2020

Meiyang Chang’s mother, Gaichen Chang, and father, Khai Chin Chang in the 1970s; (Photo courtesy: Meiyang Chang)

The love and longing of the Chinese-Indians

16 min read . 25 Jul 2020

SHAREit was the gateway to original content platforms for young Kashmiris during the lockdown.getty images

How young Kashmiris are beating the SHAREit ban

5 min read . 25 Jul 2020

Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal said the city will launch a plasma bank for critically-ill patients

Inside the black market for covid-19 plasma donations

3 min read . 16 Jul 2020

School children wearing masks get their hands sanitized and temperatures checked as they arrive to appear for state board examination during the coronavirus pandemic in Kochi, Kerala. (AP)

Did Covid-19 become another excuse to rewrite textbooks?

5 min read . 11 Jul 2020

Ashish Birulee.

Lounge Heroes | Ashish Birulee: Rising out of a nuclear wasteland

4 min read . 03 Jul 2020

Samples being collected in Ajmer, Rajasthan, in May.alamy

Meet India's covid-testers, the unsung frontline heroes

8 min read . 26 Jun 2020

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