India News: MUMBAI: Ghanshyam Mishra was among millions of Indians who welcomed ‘Tika Utsav,’ a celebration of the mass vaccination programme (April 11-April 14) .
With online registration, a vaccination centre in Dharavi is empty
MUMBAI: Ghanshyam Mishra was among millions who welcomed ‘Tika Utsav,’ a celebration of the mass vaccination programme (April 11-April 14) PM Modi announced. But reality hit home hard last week when Mishra, a rickshaw driver, took a day off from work to queue up outside a vaccination centre, only to be told that he could not get the jab because he was not registered on the CoWin app. He came later, after his college-going son who owns a smartphone booked a slot for him.
Mishra, 50, originally from Jaunpur (UP), can be called privileged among his peers as his family owns at least one smartphone and could get the first dose. Thousands of other poor migrants, daily wagers, domestic help and semi-literate workers at construction sites have not got vaccinated yet because they lack access to smartphones.
No single person or institution killed the Badaun girls. I’d say that we all did
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Synopsis London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eyewitness accounts to tell their story in her new book called ‘The Good Girls’.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 14, 2021)
Padma, a 16-year-old given to singing, had just embroidered a parrot with a furry beak. Lalli, her poetry-loving 14-year-old cousin, had always wanted to be “something”. Then, on May 27, 2014, their bodies were found hanging from a tree. The chilling image triggered London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro to return to her home country to investigate the callously reported and sloppily investigated tragedy that shook Badaun in UP. The result of repeated visits to the village over four years is a potent new book called ‘The Good Girls’. Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eye