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Amid all the gloom comes news of resistance by journalists from Shillong (Thread)
Shillong Times management, guilty of making their staff work ignoring #Covid_19 situation, sacked features ed @NabamitaM, exec ed Dipankar Roy, news ed EM Jose w.e.f Sept 1 but served the letters on Sept 7. Reason stated was "COVID-19 generated reasons" (2/n)
Yesterday 11 editorial staff told the management they would not work until and unless those three are reinstated. The management has not been able to break their resolve till the time of this tweet. IUJ has come out in support of this resistance (3/n)
*IJU*. Following are links to news of incidents that preceded this situation (4/n)
Here's my heartfelt thanks to journalists who are standing up for their colleagues, realising they could be next. Huge risks taken by them. It's selflessness at its best, that, too by so many people (7/n)
It is also fantastic that "locals" have stood up for 3 "outsiders" at a place which is often read through a local vs outsider discourse. That discourse has received a thrashing here (n/n)
