Ilma is a Senior Fact Checker and writer based in New Delhi. Before pursuing a masters degree from Columbia Journalism School in New York, she was a television correspondent and producer covering politics, policy and crime. Ilma's interests range from India's political economy to reality television.
Politicians with formidable grassroots following, often linked with Tamil cinema, have led most major electoral exercises in the state of Tamil Nadu for decades since the times one of it’s most successful actors and politicians Maruthur Gopalan...
On January 3 this year, activist Rachna Dhingra highlighted in a Twitter thread that hundreds of survivors from one of the world’s worst industrial disasters — 1984’s Bhopal gas tragedy — were being targeted and unethically recruited to...
On December 8, farmer unions called for a nationwide Bharat Bandh—with resounding support from opposition parties—in protest against the new agricultural reforms. As has happened with several major protests in the recent past, social media was...
Footage of Deepika Padukone, one of India’s most iconic actors, ran on a continuous loop on news channels this weekend as she attended the office of the Narcotics Control Bureau for questioning. The agency is investigating an alleged Bollywood “...