Omkar Khandekar

@KhandekarOmkar

Feature writer at . alumnus, fellow. Words in BBC, Al Jazeera, GQ, South China Morning Post and Caravan among others.

Mumbai, India
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2012.

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    23. srp 2019.
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  2. 30. sij

    I did a happy(ish) story for a change.

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  3. 26. sij

    To sum up, if you're a visiting India and see something wrong happening, keep your head down and walk away. Or risk eviction. More here.

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  4. 26. sij

    Also, as a 1991 Supreme Court judgement established, the Indian state has an “unfettered discretion" in determination of violation of any visa condition.

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  5. 26. sij

    The laws on it are pretty vague. They don't explicitly forbid political participation. But foreigners in India don't enjoy freedom of speech as an Indian citizen does.

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  6. 26. sij

    Over the years, several visiting journalists, academics and human-rights workers from abroad have been denied visas, deported or abruptly asked to leave the country. Most often, these were critics of the government in power.

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  7. 26. sij

    | Last month, a German exchange student and a Norwegian tourist were deported from India for participating in an anti-CAA rally. This, however, shouldn't have come as a surprise. (1/5)

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    24. sij

    While the international community is far from unaware of the current situation in India, writes on the various ways such voices of dissent are stifled-

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    25. sij

    COVER: Revolution begins at home. speaks to millennials and members of Generation Z who are having tough conversations with their families on CAA, NRC and current politics

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  10. 24. sij

    From visa refusal and deportation to being packed off at the immigration desk, here's the many legal hacks the Indian government uses to muzzle criticism from the international community.

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    Have you heard of chessboxing? Alternate bouts of chess and boxing in a game invented by a French graphic novelist! writes about the fascinating hybrid sport

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  12. 11. sij

    Chessboxing is exactly as it sounds: a fusion of two contradictory disciplines. But since it was introduced in India earlier this decade, it's found quite a following. My piece.

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  13. 5. sij

    A cat is stuck inside my building vent. The fire brigade is here. As I join the onlookers, a neighbour comes up to me. "Just the right content for you," he says. I long for a news day as slow as the one he imagines.

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    3. sij

    Many members of the BJP’s minority cell in Maharashtra remain unconvinced about the need for the CAA and the proposed NRC (via )

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  15. 3. sij

    “Most Muslims never vote for the BJP," Hamid Shaikh, secy of Latur’s BJP minority cell, told me. “Those who do, it’s because of people like us. But even we can’t defend them on this ( and ). Modi aur Amit Shah ki neeyat mein hi khot hai."

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    3. sij

    The unique perspectives and challenges of being a Muslim member of the BJP, captured with nuance in this story by

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    “I've been part of the party for 22 years," says Hyder Azam, vice-president of BJP’s Mumbai unit. “But today I have to stay quiet. I can’t go to pray in mosques." Muslims in face a moment of reckoning with . Excellent story by

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  18. 30. pro 2019.

    It's the exact sentiment I encountered when I spoke to members of the minority communities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Wrote about it in :

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  19. 30. pro 2019.

    Afghanistan's first Sikh Parliamentarian expresses her disappointment with : "It is unacceptable for me to pass a law on citizenship of foreign nationals in India. I am Afghan Sikh I feel the pain of discrimination."

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  20. 30. pro 2019.

    On her selfie with PM Modi: "It was my Prime Minister. He had called a bunch of actors to discuss what the film industry can do to make an impact on things I am working on. I took it as an opportunity to speak about things I believe in."

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  21. 30. pro 2019.

    On pay gap with Kartik Aryan: "You should be paid as what you are capable of bringing in. This is business. You need to get return on investments... Kartik after seven years has reached a point where he has an audience of his own. He really owns it and deserves it."

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