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Laasya is The Xylom's Managing Editor, based in Chennai, India. She is a veteran of two venerable local independent news outlets, Citizen Matters and Newslaundry. As a freelancer, she has written extensively on environmental issues, women's and children's rights, and other critical social and civic issues for the BBC, Thomson Reuters, Nature, Dialogue Earth, and Mongabay India. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Bharathiar University.
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Jun 6, 2026 ∙ 8 min
‘We Didn’t Name It A Better World Is Probable’: Meera Subramanian on Hope in A Climate Crisis
"Through these real-life kids, we could get to the heart of showing how much power anyone who decides to work towards climate action has. And they showed — though their backgrounds and experiences of climate change even at young ages [are different] — what is fundamentally a global story."
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Apr 17, 2026 ∙ 6 min
The White-Winged Duck’s Last Call
Conservation breeding is key to increasing the number of critically endangered white-winged ducks. Although India has the largest remaining population in the wild, funding for conservation efforts remains a challenge.
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Apr 9, 2026 ∙ 10 min
This Indian Billionaire is Trying to Get Trump to Drop His Bribery Charges. Meanwhile, His Company is Forcing Out Another Indigenous Tribe for Coal.
Billionaire Gautam Adani is accused of building a global energy empire through bribes, bypassing sanctions, violating tribal rights, and targeting journalists. While his rival has been stopped by public outcry, the Adani group has shown no signs of changing course.
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Nov 7, 2025 ∙ 8 min
MSC Is Wrecking Ocean Ecosystems And Livelihoods from India to Massachusetts
A deep dive into Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) shows that the world’s largest container shipping company has a history of accidents and was once fined for illegally dumping bilge waste into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mar 29, 2025 ∙ 5 min
இந்திய பெண்கள் சூரியனின் ஆற்றலைக் கொண்டு தமது கைகளால் மீனை உலர வைக்கின்றனர்.
தெற்காசியாவை உள்ளிட்ட பல பகுதிகளில் மீனை உலர வைக்கும் உழைப்பாளர்களில் பெண்கள் ஆதிக்கம் செலுத்துகின்றனர்.
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