Parth M.N.

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Hard Drives, YouTube, and Murder: India’s Dark History of Digital Hate

A crowd had gathered at a village temple in Kesapuri, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, when Vikas Patil plugged a hard drive into his laptop to begin his show.First, he...

India Is Using Terrorism Laws to Target Journalists

A special unit of the Delhi Police, reporting directly to Narendra Modi’s union government, this morning seized the laptops and phones of journalists and satirists associated with a news website, Newsclick.in. The...

India's Internet Shutdown Means Manipur Is Burning in the Dark

Joshua Hangshing’s 7-year-old son died less than an hour after being shot in the head. But it wasn’t the bullet that killed him.On June 4, Hangshing set off from a relief camp...

Instagram Posts About a 17th-Century King Are Getting People Arrested

Shafiq Bagwan was hanging out with a few friends in his village of Hasnabad, which is in the Maharashtra state in western India, when he opened Instagram on his phone and saw...

India’s Tech Obsession May Leave Millions of Workers Without Pay

Vaishali Kanal’s wages don’t depend on how much she works. They depend on whether there is internet in her village or not. Kanal, 25, usually leaves her toddler at home in Palatpada,...

The Comedian Taking on India’s New Censorship Law

In the first week of April, the Indian government announced its solution to fake news on the internet. Its own fact-checking unit will determine what’s true and what’s misleading on anything that...

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