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Author Archives: Tanushree Bhowmik

Tanushree Bhowmik is a New Delhi-based development-sector professional working on energy access and socio-politics of gender in infrastructure programs.

Indian women from the 'Dalit' or 'Untouchable' caste listen to a speaker during a Dalit Dignity Rally against the Congress-led UPA government near Parliament House in New Delhi on December 5, 2007. Photo: AFP/Raveendran
Posted inIndia, South Asia

Empowering India’s women through free public transport

by Tanushree Bhowmik June 6, 2019February 18, 2020

The chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, recently announced a plan to allow free rides for women on the metro and buses run by the Delhi government. This comes a few weeks after Kejriwal’s political party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), received a drubbing from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the parliamentary elections. The state elections […]

People wait to check their names on the first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Goroimari of Kamrup district in the Indian state of Assam on January 1, 2018. Around 13 million people in northeastern India's Assam woke up to uncertainty on January 1 after the release of an official citizenship registry with names of only 19 million of the state's over 32 million residents. The national registry of citizens (NRC) has been in works for years, after strident, decades long demands by many local groups to identify and evict "illegal foreigners" settling in the state. / AFP PHOTO / Kulendu Kalita
Posted inBangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Going through India’s citizenship test as a Bengali Assamese

by Tanushree Bhowmik August 1, 2018August 1, 2018

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