Scroll wins five RedInk Awards for Excellence in Indian Journalism

Scroll’s Aarefa Johari, Arunabh Saikia, Kamayani Sharma, Rokibuz Zaman, Supriya Sharma and Tabassum Barnagarwala won five RedInk Awards for Excellence in Indian Journalism on Saturday. The ceremony was held at the Opera House in Mumbai.

Johari won the award in the women’s empowerment and gender equality category for her report about anganwadi workers’ struggles to be recognised as government employees.

Saikia and Sharma won in the politics and government category for their article on the Modi government’s weaponisation of the Enforcement Directorate against India’s Opposition. They demonstrated how the central agency has relied on recent amendments to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to accelerate action against rights groups, activists and journalists.

Kamayani Sharma won in the arts category for a feature on the little-known history of Diwana, India’s first full-fledged Hindi humour and parody periodical addressed to adults that ran as a bilingual weekly from 1964 till 1986.

Zaman won in the human rights category for a report on how thousands of people were deprived of subsidised food as they either did not have Aadhaar numbers, or their ration cards were not linked to Aadhaar or they were left out of the National Register of Citizens.

Barnagarwala won in the health and wellness category for her story on a cholera outbreak in rural Maharashtra that occurred in April 2022, despite the...

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