Reporting from the ground. Following the paper trail.
Mahmodul Hassan
Reporting at the intersections of human rights, natural resources, public policy and social justice — through fieldwork, documents, data and visual evidence.
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From a village meeting to the document that changes the story.
Ground
Field reporting centred on communities living with the consequences of policy, conflict, displacement and development.
Records
RTIs, audits, land records, consent documents and public filings used to test official claims against the paper trail.
Evidence
Satellite imagery, visual verification and data used when the landscape itself becomes part of the reporting.
Land / Power / Consent
Three investigations. Three landscapes. One recurring question: what happens when development moves faster than the rights of people already living on the land?
“Forged consent” Questions over Gram Sabha records for Vedanta’s Sijimali Bauxite project in Odisha
RTI documents reveal Adivasi consent forged for Sijimali Bauxite Mine in Odisha. Gram Sabhas in 8 villages held at the same date & time, with omnipresent officials and forged signatures, including deceased, & migrants.
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The story is often somewhere between what a government file says and what people on the ground say happened.
Stories, not thumbnails.
Field reporting, investigations and long-form features across land rights, conflict, migration, communal violence and state power.
Reporting that stays with the evidence.
Mahmodul Hassan is a multimedia journalist and researcher. His work focuses on the intersections of human rights, natural resources, policy and social justice. Since 2020, he has worked across digital newsrooms as a reporter, sub-editor and research fellow.