Mujib Mashal

@MujMash

South Asia bureau chief, The New York Times. Previously: senior correspondent, Afghanistan. Views are my own.

New Delhi, India nytimes.com/by/mujib-mashal Joined February 2011

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Mujib Mashal @MujMash Sep 24

“The writing becomes your shelter — to express yourself and relieve yourself, to purge it out.”

— a full 2-page spread on the life and art of Gulzar in yesterday’s @nytimes.

nytimes.com/2026/09/21/wor…

Mujib Mashal @MujMash Sep 21

At 92, Gulzar writes with the same discipline that's helped him refine & reinvent his art decade after decade - building an enormous body of work known for its tenderness.

This summer, I spent time with him at his Mumbai home for this @nytimes profile:

nytimes.com/2026/09/21/wor…
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Mujib Mashal @MujMash 1d

…its landlord refused to renew the lease and the banks that had processed reader donations, the paper’s sole form of income, said they would stop doing so. None of the journalists consider this a coincidence.

“No one is in shock..process of silencing us started many years ago.”

Mujib Mashal @MujMash 1d

Novaya Gazeta’s “forced closure is emblematic of the Kremlin’s erasure of opinions, ideas and people that do not conform to its views”

@VALERIEinNYT

nytimes.com/2026/11/10/wor… via @NYTimes
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Novaya Gazeta’s “forced closure is emblematic of the Kremlin’s erasure of opinions, ideas and people that do not conform to its views”

@VALERIEinNYT

nytimes.com/2026/11/10/wor… via @NYTimes

www.nytimes.com The Lights Go Out at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s Bravest Newspaper For more than 30 years, the paper covered an increasingly repressive Russia. “The process of silencing us started many years ago,” one of its journalists said.

Mujib Mashal @MujMash 3d

“…many prominent American politicians are interpreting the midterm election results as a mandate from voters to rethink the U.S.-Israel relationship…”

Edward Wong Verified account @ewong 3d

Gift link to the @nytimes story by me and @michaelcrowley: nytimes.com/2026/11/09/us/…
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…when anything and everything is for too long seen and framed only and only through “conspiracy” lens…this is what becomes of governance even on the most fundamental human need for air…

ANI Verified account @ANI 3d

#WATCH | Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra says, "...We started getting calls from Punjab farmers last evening...that fire is being set in the fields at night, and when farmers are celebrating Diwali at their homes, their fields are being set ablaze by people who are then fleeing. We could not believe this...We decided to find out the truth...We asked for data coming in through satellites for Govt of India on stubble burning. The data proves that this was a premeditated move, and fields in Punjab were set on fire. As per the satellite data on stubble burning on 5th, 6th and 7th Nov, on 7th Nov, there was stubble burning at 125 locations...But as per the data last evening, there was stubble burning at 1200 locations - on the day of Diwali...How did it increase 10 times?...This is a really serious matter. This is a conspiracy against farmers, against Diwali, against Delhi, against Punjab..."

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