Shahnawaz Akhtar

Shahnawaz Akhtar is a senior journalist with over two decades of reporting experience across four Indian states and China. He is the Managing Editor and founder of eNewsroom India, an independent, Kolkata-based digital media platform. His work focuses on human-interest reporting, capturing lived realities, resilience, and voices often ignored by mainstream media

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‘India Has Lost a Committed Indian’: Father Stan Swamy Remembered on First Death Anniversary

Kolkata: On the first death anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, whose death was widely described as an “institutional murder”, the tribal rights defender was...

Iftar Served on a Shatabdi Train: Why My Viral Tweet Was Never Just About Food

Kolkata: I am overwhelmed by the response I have received to my tweet about being served iftar aboard the Ranchi–Howrah Shatabdi Express on Monday...

Jharkhand has the world record of the longest continuous closure of primary schools—Jean Dreze to Jharkhand CM

Ranchi: Well-known economist and social activist Jean Dreze writes to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on the closure of primary schools for two years now...

Significance of Trinamool Congress vote share rise, from 38.9 to 72.13 percent

Kolkata: The Kolkata civic polls has been significant not just in one way. While winning the required number of seats brought Trinamool Congress to...

If COTPA Amendment Bill 2020 gets implemented, many beedi workers will commit suicide, claims a study

Kolkata: Susheela, a 46-year-old native of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district rolls beedi for a living. She has been doing it, since the age of...

Jharkhand’s student wishes to sell his artwork as mother needs kidney transplant

Kolkata: When the name Waseypur, a locality comes into our mind, it always brings up a picture of crimes and gang wars. But like...