Archive - TK: Mahima Jain’s Substack

How caste worsens climate impacts, affects disaster relief and rehabilitation efforts

Climate resilience efforts must overcome a uniquely Indian problem: the caste geography in Indian villages and cities

Nov 26, 2024 •

August 2024

What a visit to Nairobi taught me about Indira Gandhi’s environmentalism

TK#12: Indira Gandhi unknowingly gave the world a vocabulary for climate justice, way back in the 1970s. But her domestic environmental policies had…

Aug 29, 2024 •

July 2024

TK #11: Five highlights from my journalism fellowship in Denmark

As a Climate Explorer at the Constructive Institute, Aarhus University I dabbled in many things, from projects to panel discussions. Here is an…

Jul 12, 2024 •

March 2024

TK #10: The pursuit and punishments of creativity

TK, short for “To Come,” in publishing and journalism is used by editors to mark missing information. This newsletter is repository of work "to come…

Mar 11, 2024 •

February 2024

FAQs on journalism grant applications

Journalism grants and fellowships have helped me do shoe-leather reporting, deep dives and experiment with story telling formats. TK #9 is FAQs on…

Feb 1, 2024 •

January 2024

New Beginnings: Journalism Adventures in Aarhus, Denmark

TK #8: What am I up to in 2024? Constructive climate journalism at the Constructive Institute.

Jan 31, 2024 •

December 2023

Travel and the art of absorbing cultures

In TK #7, I look back at a year of exciting travel. Postcards from Japan, Colombia and South-East Asia brought to you by a journalist.

Dec 29, 2023 •

11 years after Nirbhaya case: What have we done to tackle violence against women?

India promised harsher laws and stricter punishments for perpetrators of gender-based violence, but what about survivors? This year, I embarked on a…

Dec 15, 2023 •

September 2023

Notes from a reporting trip, and on the Jain 'festival' seeking forgiveness

TK #5: Views from Chhattisgarh, excerpts from Ram Guha's biography of Verrier Elwin, a few reads, and thoughts on the Jains

Sep 18, 2023 •

August 2023

The time is ripe: when ideas become obvious

TK #4: Was 1969 the right time for India to start a space programme? Why theories of gender identity gained focus in the third wave of feminism? What…

Aug 25, 2023 •

India has a crisis of gender-based violence. But who cares?

TK #3: Introducing the first story from my Pulitzer Center project, excerpts from a book on India's domestic violence act, and some reads on the…

Aug 3, 2023 •

July 2023

The public life of women in photos, a song and the news

TK#2: a photo exhibition from Nepal, a song about a South African singer-activist, and thoughts on gender gap in the news sources

Jul 18, 2023 •

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