Articles written by Kunal Majumder
February always been kind to me. This year it has been exceptional giving. Not only did I celebrate my 27th birthday on 13th, lot of good news have come along in the last few days.
I have won my first journalism award — UNFPA Laadli Media Award 2010-11. I’m grateful to Tehelka and its editors for their support. Perhaps no other news organisation in this country gives so much freedom to a journalist as Tehelka does. I’m lucky I work for such a magazine.
In early 1900s, Rajoni Kanto Majumder came to Jharia from Shantipur in Nadia district to work as a manager in the coal division of the KC Thappar group. He got married to Sudhangshu Bala Ghosh from Mushidabad and settled down in the coal town.
While all of us went mad about 2G and Barkha Dutt, Radia’s claim about aviation minister Praful Patel making Rs 15000 crore in Idigo deal went unnoticed.
TEHELKA travels to Kalpakkam and Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu where two nuclear plants are located.
IN AN inconspicuous corner of the Department of Atomic Energy’s (DAE) website is a large map that could easily belong in a student’s science textbook. On the map that captures atomic energy establishments in India, it isn’t difficult to find Kalpakkam.
Not many know that the dangerous and suffocating rat mines of Meghalaya are worked by 70,000 child miners. Following them into hellish pits, Kunal Majumder exposes the dark veins of an exploitative industr