Dreamer | Journalist | Head, Vids- Kerala, Indian Express | Ex-Mint Assistant Editor | NLU Fellow, 22 | Redink Shortlist, 21 | May you find your sentence
Kerala, India
Joined November 2009
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Thanks @dhanushgopinath!
What did you conjure @mknid ?? Absolutely brilliant, this is. Thank you.
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"Would anyone even watch?" RK Bijuraj asked me this more than once, right up to the day of the shoot. I'm glad we didn't listen. New episode of SORA, the podcast I host for @IeMalayalam, on the Kerala the reels leave out. A note below, full episode here:
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At 10:30 pm last night, reports that @odisha_police detained Dr Randall Sequeira, doctor to Adivasi communities, and Laxman Naik, leader of affected villages opposing @Vedanta_Group’s mining in Niyamgiri and Sijimali. Their whereabouts are still unknown, no access to a lawyer.
NEW | Vedanta seems to be attempting to revive its stalled Niyamgiri bauxite mining project despite the Gram Sabhas’ rejection of mining in 2013, raising concerns that the Odisha government may be using the criminal justice system to weaken tribal resistance and clear the way for corporate interests. @Ayaskant_Das reports.
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A rented house with eight types of narcotic substances, crypto transactions, a mysterious ‘Boss’ giving instructions, link with arson against another church… what a story! Superb reporting by kochi tnie @pendown
Kochi synagogue fire: Man held within hours; police probe suspected international links. His name is Ebin Paul newindianexpress.com/cities/…
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I agree that journalists have the right to report, and the public have the right to protest.
The anger is stemming from the fact that several journalists or rather their organisations, do not support the right to protest, and instead have systematically villainised the protestors.
Yes, we can condemn the heckling. We can ask the protesters to stop behaving like this.
At the same time, I hope these reporters (and many of them seniors) are coming back to their Newsrooms and strongly asking why they should bear the brunt for all editorial decisions and why things are not changing
Was watching Kerala Assembly debates in the background while doing something else, and G Sudhakaran went from the Mahabharata to Hemingway to Epicureanism to an indirect dig at Pinarayi Vijayan.
Honestly, the Assembly vids deserve a bigger audience. Where else do you get this much intellectual range, political drama and entertainment in one sitting?
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We were detained at 3:15pm but it’s 9pm and Delhi police refuses to release detainees including minors. Women were let off but refused to leave till everyone was released.
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DU Student Aranya Rathore is missing since 5pm. She was picked up in a bus from CP and then brutalized. Due to her injuries she was taken to a hospital nearby for MLC and since then no information about her has been received.
For many of us journalists, John Brittas has become over the years one of the first people we call when we face harassment from the state. He has stood up for journalists and others facing oppression, and has been a strong voice of the Opposition.
Today, he was dragged into a police bus while protesting, assaulted, and dumped on the roadside.
Solidarity with you @JohnBrittas. If this is how the police treat an elected MP, imagine what an ordinary citizen faces.
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Request to all journalists.
If you have visuals of how the Delhi police treated you or another journalist, please DM me. Or if you know my number, message me.
"You guys don't realise the power you hold."
An editor said this at a workshop when I was at Mint.
"A newspaper is good for wrapping sardines after two days."
A journo told me this recently. It was his teacher's advice against getting attached to the job or the stories. 🧵
On Sept 23, The Indian Express ran a story on its front page. 14 times in ten months, two Election Commissioners objected on record to steps taken by their own Commission. Ritika Chopra and Damini Nath reported it. Today's protest in Delhi began there.
Not a comma in that story is mine. But I head video in Kerala for the same paper, so I'm biased. Still, thinking about the people who are on the streets in Delhi today, and that it began on the front page of a newspaper, makes me think again and again about what that editor said that day to a bunch of us who were starting out.
Almost every day now, I see young people, mostly in small towns, doing journalism worn down by things that are not their doing.
And there are "senior" journalists who feed them the sardine line.
I want them to remember that the Express front page is 17 days old today. It has outlived the sardines. It will be remembered long after today's protestors go home. It will likely outlive even the guy who told me the sardine line :)
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Total 3300 protesters have been detained all across Delhi including more than 500 around Jantar Mantar area, said a Delhi Police Officer. Reports @saurabh3vedi @the_hindu
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Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine
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The great Hyderabad police enforcing perfect law in a imperfect society. @CPHydCity next time get your SWAT teams, some tanks, some helicopters as you have declared war on these kids.
Hyderabad: Santosh Nagar Police launched a late-night drive against youths found roaming without any apparent reason within the PS limits. Several youths were taken for counselling and warned against unnecessary late-night loitering.
A video from the drive shows some youths running after spotting the police, while officers chase and catch them in a dramatic scene. @habeeb_masood
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Last month a top cardiologist told my team that he is upset that we didnt book him and wife to Paris. So stopped using.
Another wants us to pay 15L for his conference so he can recco product to his hospital.
Yet another is upset that a sales girl is no more attending his OT. Send her not him.
Another roadblocks procurement at govt hospital where he is HOD until we pay for a trial at his private hospital. (In that govt hospital 5 mothers are dying every month due to lack of our device)