In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary: The government’s performed outrage over Bill Gates’s Epstein links only underlined its indifference to the routine violence faced by women in India,
by @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
Via @aljazeera.com
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As Modi recoils from #BillGates at AI Summit, I write abt #Epstein scandal & the ordinariness of gangrapes
"A govt that cannot, or will not, protect its own women should be far more ashamed of what is ordinary than of what is scandalous." @ajenglish.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
phantom plague: how tuberculosis shaped history by vidya krishnan, on a woman's madness by astrid roemer, the adventures of china iron by gabriela cabezón cámara
they really got my ass by putting a tuberculosis book front and centre in the new nonfiction display only for it to be Bad
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Watch the video: “Tuberculosis: New warriors take on an old enemy" @theunion.org World Conference
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI62...
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20.01.2026 13:47 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0One would think the reporter had access to google or chatgpt or some such....
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10 employees at an @amazon warehouse in Coventry in UK have tested positive for #TB
Weirdly, this headline does not name TB but says it is an outbreak of a "Victorian disease". !?
cc @madhupai.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social @cdmitpih.bsky.social
www.unilad.com/news/world-n...
"Sitting in the playing hall, notebook on my knee, I saw Erigasi lose piece after piece, the way an animal is stripped to bone, layer by layer, with no escape
It was a theatrical affair of the kind that keeps devotees hooked"
I wrote about #chess... kinda
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
"Sitting in the playing hall, notebook on my knee, I saw Erigasi lose piece after piece, the way an animal is stripped to bone, layer by layer, with no escape
It was a theatrical affair of the kind that keeps devotees hooked"
I wrote about #chess... kinda
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
“I have always felt removed from [tuberculosis], as though it were a curious relic of medical history rather than a contemporary plague. But early in my first pregnancy…my own blood tested positive for TB.” —Pria Anand
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It was a huge honor for me to moderate a panel with authors of 4 new books on tuberculosis at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen
Big thanks to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa
Please watch the recording 👇🏽
youtu.be/rI629blqReM
Such a generous review of #PhantomPlague in the
@nybooks
“No city in the world had segregated the rich from the poor as efficiently as #Mumbai,” Krishnan writes.
The buildings are perfect breeding grounds for #Tuberculosis.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Such a generous review of #PhantomPlague in the
@nybooks
“No city in the world had segregated the rich from the poor as efficiently as #Mumbai,” Krishnan writes.
The buildings are perfect breeding grounds for #Tuberculosis.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The TRIPS Agreement has nothing to do with free trade and everything to do with protecting corporate monopolies. It’s why pharma was able to block South Africa from purchasing HIV/AIDS treatments in the '90s and why Moderna and J&J were able to monopolize COVID vaccines.
04.12.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“It is in literature that I find everything that is missing in our policies – inspiration, intuition, and courage to imagine a new world.” – @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
#TBSky
What an amazing panel with TB book authors @theunion.org conference!
Thank you 🙏🏽 @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social Handaa Enkh-Amgalan & @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
Feed: "Nieman Reports"
By: Vidya Krishnan on Saturday, November 1, 2025
India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press
A spate of new legislation is aimed at curbing free expression
By Vidya Krishnan
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"Few expected [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] to stand up to a foreign delegation on press issues when there’s been little accountability at home," Krishnan writes. Modi has not held a press conference with open availability during his 12 years in power.
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India hosts the Taliban, but not female reporters.
The initial exclusion drew widespread condemnation, and a rare display of solidarity among India’s divided press corps, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social.
niemanreports.org/india-taliba...
The Indian state makes wars against Dalit scholars in devious ways.
My latest about caste apartheid in Indian universities
www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/h...
⚠️ New legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social.
"Official narratives are upheld by marginalizing rival voices by limiting reach, smear campaigns, and lazy innuendo,” said veteran reporter M. Rajshekhar.
niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...
The Indian state makes wars against Dalit scholars in devious ways.
My latest about caste apartheid in Indian universities
www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/h...
From July: The aid that global health has depended on so much and for so long was never purely humanitarian. It was always strategic: it came with strings attached. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:
29.09.2025 02:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
100% tariff on branded meds made in India. A hundred percent!
This is going to impact not just domestic generic manufacturers but global health orgs that rely on Indian made meds.
Just what global health needed rn.
thewire.in/trade/trump-...
For Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel, Meeran...
"Modi’s power over #India has a v. insecure foundation if it rests on #UmarKhalid being kept in prison indefinitely. He'll be out one day. That day may not save our democracy. But it'll make a huge improvement."
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
From July: Aid defined global health assistance, and it supported structures of dependency rather than promoting self-sufficiency. It meant funding was available for programmes such as population control but not for overall investment in health systems. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:
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From July: "It's easy to blame #DonaldTrump 's aid cuts for the ongoing collapse of the global health order. But the truth is that his executive orders have simply pushed ineffective and failed structures of global health off the proverbial cliff," @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes
03.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0yeah.. this is a cool panel to be a part of as well. :)
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