Former Lucknow Varsity VC Roop Rekha Verma. At the age of 79 she has volunteered to stand as surety to fulfill the court condition for release of Siddique Kappan in UAPA case. Bail condition required 2 UP natives but no one in Yogi land was willing.
NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.
My latest for
@restofworld
:
“I’m not helping Kappan in any big way. He still has to fight his case..if standing as surety for one person’s bail is seen as an act of courage, aren’t we living in such horrible times?” asks Roop Rekha Verma .
@thekorahabraham
This pure veg nonsense could result in more exclusions and acrimonious disputes. Apartment neighbours, landlords will now know what food is delivered and may discriminate against residents. People could get hurt, even delivery persons
Since Rajeev Chandrasekhar is busy giving entrepreneurial advice to Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi, here's one occupation that he can shine. Start a tax consultancy office in Kerala. We all would like to know how to limit taxable income to Rs 680.
Sreenath Bhasi began his career as an RJ in Red FM. Today we saw a video of him hurl filthy abuse on a Red FM RJ because he didn't like the question. You don't deserve to be where you are
Career update: After an year of being a reluctant journalist and drifting into content, I am back in journalism with a desk role
@thenewsminute
- a space that nurtured me without ask when I was down.
Sister is travelling from TN to Ekm in Raptisagar 12521 in a general compartment. This is a pic that she send me. Waste dumped on wash basin, unclean toilets
@RailwaySeva
@RailMinIndia
Sophie Scholl was a 21-yr-old social activist in Nazi-Germany. On 18th Feb 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo for distributing pamphlets that spoke of non-violent dissent against the govt. The “ToolKit” of 1940s.
@Countercurrents
If UP turns into Kerala, then:
✓ People will go to Karnataka or USA for medical treatment
✓ Students will go to Karnataka for education
✓ Jobless people will go to Middle East for employment
✓ Brainwashed Jihadis will join ISIS
✓ CMO will turn into gold smugglers' office
Battles against injustice are nothing new to 79-year-old Roop Rekha Verma, now being hailed for agreeing to stand as surety for release of Siddique Kappan. "It's the minimum a citizen can do in dark times," Roop Rekha Verma tells TNM's
@thekorahabraham
നാർകോട്ടിക്സ് കൺട്രോൾ ബ്യൂറോയുടെ പത്രകുറിപ്പിൽ എങ്ങും മയക്ക് മരുന്ന് പിടിച്ചെടുത്തത് കൊച്ചി ആഴക്കടലിൽ എന്ന് പറയുന്നില്ല. ഇന്ത്യൻ ജലാതിർത്തിയിൽ പിടിച്ചെടുത്ത ലഹരിമരുന്നും സ്പീഡ് ബോട്ടും മട്ടാഞ്ചേരി വാർഫിൽ എത്തിച്ചു എന്ന് മാത്രം. ഇതിനെ കേരളം സ്റ്റോറിയാക്കാൻ ചാനലുകൾക്കാണ് വ്യഗ്രത
A small note to young reporters. Say no to your editor if the editor suggests a stupid story, a vile story, a wrong story. Eventually you may be forced to do the story, but say 'no' at least once and give your reasons.
Celebration of LDF victory through Vijay Divas is a masterstroke. A political Deepavali. Captain Pinarayi and co has mastered the game. Don't ask me from which playbook it came from
Heard at local supermarket shortwhile ago. Counter girl yelling at the top of her voice to co-worker: "Edee ivide breast undo. Saarinu breast venam". Customer who wanted chicken breast: ഭഗീരഥന് പിള്ള, ചെറിയ വെടി, നാല് വലിയ വെടി
Hello,
@orfonline
@SunjoyJ
@samirsaran
Your senior fellow has some weird fetish over anchors heading women-led newsrooms. Is this social media policy only on paper or are you serious about it
I just want to say that as much as I love TV channels, on 4th June I will exclusively be watching the joint coverage by
@thenewsminute
&
@newslaundry
because in my old age I have developed this bizarre fetish watching anchors have large ripe jackfruit shoved up their rectums.
Andaman & Nicobar islands and
#Lakshadweep
are both witnessing a spate of de-notifications, statute amendments and new legislation, with little or no concern over the environmental impact they have, to make way for big business, shipping and tourism projects.
#SaveLakshadweep
Media was instrumental in keeping the pressure on investigators and the state, which were in a hurry to close the case. This report by Sreejan Balakrishnan paved a huge role in changing the fortune of the probe
സഖാക്കൾ ചെയ്യുന്നത് സൈബർ ബുള്ളിയിങ് തന്നെയാണ്. വിനു ചെയ്യുന്നത് അയാളുടെ ജോലിയാണ്. എതിരഭിപ്രായം ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ മാന്യമായി, സഭ്യമായ ഭാഷയിൽ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.
#StopSexistAbuse
'Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the osle of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little then,
afraid to crush my kiss?'
This poem by Romanian poet Nichita Stãnescu has now a translation in Kozhikodan lingo, courtesy Geetha Suryan.
A Class 12 student in Kerala writes to Harvard Univ to fact check claims made by ex-DGP Alexander Jacob in a speech. He spoke some mumbo jumbo about aligning your head towards east while studying and sleeping and said a Harvard hostel was demolished since it wasn't east-facing
You made us laugh, made us plumb the depths of grief, made us reflect our own idiosyncrasies. It took less than a second for you to shift the mode of emote - from anxious to apologetic, bashful to beaming, coy to cautious, disgusted to disapproving. You were the best
#KPACLalitha
The mob that lynched Madhu could be called a microcosm of ‘progressive’ Kerala, but their behaviour towards Madhu was rooted in the logic of slave disciplining. My take on Madhu lynching conviction
Now that the euphoria over CPM choosing young women to helm local bodies have peaked can we shift focus to question of women representation in the party in positions of power? For a start, how many women dist secretaries did the party have in Kerala since it was formed?
There is unprecedented personal attack reeking of misogyny, sexism & character assassination on a woman TV anchor by pro-CPM trolls. But I don't see a single woman or man from the 'woke' Left, who otherwise wax eloquent on feminism, calling them out.
#Solidarity
@NishaPurushoth2
None can surpass Kitex MD Sabu Jacob in creating fake narratives. He made tge allegation of bureaucratic witchhunt on the day company's Q4 results were out and profits fell by nearly 50%
How beautiful if Kerala becomes the place, egalitarian, sustainable with zero hatred, where everyone can pursue their dreams. Video from Kattappana Online, a migrant labourer creating a dance reel at Kattappana busstand.
Well Mr
@free_thinker
, I can understand your unease when asked about funding.
While so many credible news channels and publications are struggling to survive, it is surprising to see how biased agencies like you are able to sustain. This needs investigation.
The fight for succession rights was not the only court battle Mary Roy fought. She knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court when the clergy and local politicians stopped her school Corpus Christi, now Pallikoodam, from staging a rock opera.
Each day a new low in Kerala. A Vijayaraghavan, convenor of LDF casting aspersions on Remya Haridas, a woman candidate who is taking on CPM's P K Biju in Alathur. You need to apologize
@vijayanpinarayi
A MUST WATCH: A very well researched video based on available facts by
@dhruv_rathee
bursting the fake claims of the Propaganda movie 'The Kerala Story'. Do watch and share the full video available on YouTube.
July 15 marked 25 years of choosing journalism as a career. In 1996, had joined a month-long foundation course in journalism by Kottayam press club. First proper job as a reporter came four years later. Two batchmates are here
@KtonyjoseMM
&
@chandruviswam
Even women with Marxist/Feminist on their bio are employing the language of patriarchal state in infantalizing the electorate. People who criticize party or the government are not cry bucket kids. They hold a stake in democracy
Unlike the PM Cares fund, CMDRF is a transparent fund which audits money that comes in and out. Vigilance action shows checks and balances work. Not the other way around.
Another
#KeralaModel
. Vigilance finds that money from CM’s distress relief fund was siphoned off & spent on underserving beneficiaries, based on fake medical certificates. A rich NRI got ₹300,000 & another one got ₹45,000!
Thank you all for the wishes. It was overwhelming. Please read more poetry, buy poetry books, help create an ecosystem where poets get dignified payments
Works of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer are getting new English translations after a while. This translation of Vishappu is by former colleague and journalist Anoop Thomas
Some English words PM Narendra Modi has a problem with and hence uses Hindi transliteration in teleprompter: popularizing, neighbouring, stove, kitchen, ghost, bidding, thought, kilometers, decisive, niche
That Kerala has done well on the Covid front is a statement of fact. Not mere spin. There have been some bad policy calls and missteps, undercounting of deaths, lack of agility in unlocking regulations. Criticize, don't run it down
Saradha U who left us at 22 wrote several stories for TNM with beautiful ledes and insightful quotes. From numerous book and film reviews to stories about representation of sexualities and body politics, her writing displayed a rare sensitivity. Her departure is heartbreaking.
And in Kochi, the secretary of the press club has stepped down temporarily after it was found that Rs 10 lakh was transferred to his personal account from a fraudster called Monson Mavunkal.
With the 52-day trawling ban ending July 31 midnight, began field reporting for the
@earthjournalism
Fisheries Subsidies Story Grants 2021. I'd be focusing on increasing juvenile bycatch across Kerala coast with climate change anxieties and the crisis in the sector as backdrop
Adaykka Raju gets a poem due from none less than Balachandran Chullikkad, who sees parallels between him and the Penitent Thief who died on the cross along with the Christ
“If girls and boys are found together, the manager will take videos and confiscate ID cards,” said a student of Amal Jyothi College, which is witnessing protests over the death of Shradha Satheesh, reports
@AzeefaFathima
An Austrian Jewish tourist was summoned by Kerala Police after a video of her tearing down a pro-Palestinian mural in Fort Kochi in Ernakulam district went viral on social media.
Watch:
Fresh findings from excavations at Pattanam, including a seal-ring with the image of a Sphinx and the Greco-Roman head of a miniature statuette, by PAMA trust have added to evidence of the site being the fabled ancient port town of Muziris
Being targeted and harassed in the name of dress and religion is daily lived experience for Muslims. That one particular incident may have been part of fake narrative. But to mock their fears with memes is pathetic and qualifies as blatant islamophobia
*4 Lakh Crore, Bik Gaye Yeh Log*
For the past month, the State Bank of India has desperately attempted to delay the release of the Electoral Bonds data until June 30, 2024 - after the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. This was most certainly done at the behest of the Modi government.
Never thought I'd share a post on
#MerchantNavyDay
but last week I meet this guy Ranjit Menon. Ranjit, who works in the merchant navy, along with Pran, a digital marketer from Kolkata, swam braving the currents and snakes to save a family of four that includes two kids
Every Christmas eve I would walk to the home of my childhood friend to share a drink with him and his father. It had become kind of a ritual. There would be a beautiful crib in their sit-out, stars and blinking lights. I gave it a miss tonight and instead settled for a call
People tripping over to praise Drishyam 2, hope you would find time to watch films by
@DonPalathara
too. Malayalam cinema would be known through his work. Watched 1956 yday. A brilliant, bewitching, layered tale of a gaur hunt gone awry
I had been writing on art ever since career on journalism started. In July I am wearing another hat, of a curator, for a solo exhibition of photgraphs by Shaji NJ organised by Lalita Kala Akademy in Thrissur. If you are in Thrissur from July 1 to 10, pls drop by
Please understand that people have the right to critique any project on the basis of development paradigm. An engineering solution that doesn't respect the topography of state with 40+ west flowing rivers needs to be questioned
If there is a Nobel prize for gender sensitization through right communication they truly desserve it. Mother: not someone brimming with love, not a synonym of patience, not a superwoman, just another fallible individual like you and me love with grief, anger and exhaustion
After messing up Chinese and Italian dishes I felt bold enough to blaspheme Mexican cuisine. So whipped up some enchilada sauce and made Mexican rice with chicken and Moovandan + Tomato salsa as side
#EasterLunch
High time filmmakers from Kerala took on Sanghi Bollywood shit with deeply political Hindi films. They can start with
#GujaratFiles
if Vinod Kapri isn't making one