Investigative journalist, The Times of India. Climate, rivers and vanishing islands of the Bay of Bengal. RTI-based reporting on Lohachara, Bedford and Ghoramara.https://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mtpalwwxok2tSixteen years ago I stood with an 85-year-old man in the Dullung forest in Assam who had trapped 100 wild elephants. He was a phandi — a master trapper. He cried when he talked about it, and I put the notebook away. I've finally written it. https://fineprint.achintyarupray.com/noose-and-the-song/22 Aug 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpalwwxok2thttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mtbaeohp6s2kYour grandparents ate nearly 8x more millet than you do. In 1962: 32.9 kg a year. By 2010: 4.2 kg. Punjab: 18.21 million tonnes of paddy bought in one year. Millets: 0 to 140 tonnes. The gap is the policy. #Millets #FoodPolicy #IndianAgriculture https://fineprint.achintyarupray.com/why-the-government-loves-millets/17 Aug 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbaeohp6s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mtba5so2zc2k"The Vishwabharti have been procrastinating for several months now." All India Radio, April 1951, on why India's national anthem couldn't legally be pressed onto a record — a year after it was adopted. read: #NationalAnthem #JanaGanaMana #IndianHistory https://fineprint.achintyarupray.com/rathindranath-janaganamana-copyright/17 Aug 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtba5so2zc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnyt6wfals2gAfter 30 years in journalism, I am looking for my next chapter. I want to write and edit on environment — rivers, coasts, climate, South Asia. Currently finishing a 3-part investigation in the Sundarbans. Based in Kolkata, open to remote work. DMs open. #journalism #OpenToWork11 Jun 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnyt6wfals2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnyr4pcbgc2fIn 1981, Kolkata Port Trust drew up a plan to protect Bedford and Ghoramara islands in the Sundarbans from the sea. Unit VII of the Comprehensive Scheme: a protective embankment, funded, approved, tendered. It was never built. The islands kept shrinking. A thread. 🧵11 Jun 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnyr4pcbgc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnwj5kahjh2tTwo islands have disappeared from India's map. A third is dying. The reason wasn't rising seas. It was an unfinished port project — and the documents prove it. A thread on Lohachara, Bedford and Ghoramara.10 Jun 2026 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwj5kahjh2thttps://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnwcpbw73222Thank you @richardingerstad.bsky.social for sharing my post on how a half-done port project obliterated (and is still causing erosion of) inhabited islands.10 Jun 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwcpbw73222https://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnv2nrwocs26Ghoramara Island, Hooghly estuary, 2009. The cliff edge is where the land ends and the river begins. A little further each year. Photograph: Achintyarup Ray09 Jun 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnv2nrwocs26https://bsky.app/profile/achintyarupray.bsky.social/post/3mnuwd2b2rk26The most dangerous four words in environmental governance: "It is a natural process." It is the sentence that ends accountability. The flood, the erosion, the vanished island — all natural, all inevitable, nobody responsible. The documents usually say otherwise.09 Jun 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:k3xisdyyfeedvirimebc3a2g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnuwd2b2rk26