Our Malayalam podcast Sora has a new episode out, featuring @theliverdoc. I read his book and felt compelled to reach out. Social media can create the illusion that we know a person. And he has been all over social media. Yet, I wasn’t prepared for the man I found in those pages. A doctor who cries in the shower. The writer who reflects on death with unusual honesty. The storyteller who packs suspense, humour and heartbreak into what is, at its core, a book about medicine. youtu.be/ywG5ywl8Sqw

Dancing girl.

What if you were being paid to train the machine that could replace you? A San Francisco-based company is paying Bengaluru market vendors to wear cameras that capture their movement. The data is used to train AI-powered robots. @kavashivani reports. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/…

Poet Aleena speaks to @dhanyarajendran and @PoojaPrasanna4 on feminism, Dalit allyship, and navigating identities in this week’s South Central. Tune in to the conversation open.spotify.com/episode/6RQ…

TNM has accessed a chilling 16-minute audio. Weeks before 20-month-old Arshith was tortured to death in Kerala, his grandmom called the Child Protection office with clear warnings. @harithajohn1 and @AzeefaFathima on how the system failed. thenewsminute.com/kerala/aud…

Kerala is still reeling from the death of Arshith. But one question remains: Could this death have been prevented? We have obtained a 16-minute call that took place a month before he died. The question now is whether action by authorities could have changed the course of events.

From Ramachandra Guha to Rahul Pandita, everyone seems to be worried Rahul being in the run. Not so much about a PM who wouldn't answer his questions :)

There’s a lot of punditry being thrown at me for calling out Desi Studios and the way they plagiarised my story on Jayanandan. Don’t gatekeep facts. Don’t be a crybaby. Duniya is changing, why don’t you move on. You get the drift. Here's a 🧵useful to anyone who thinks that story, the one Desi Studios lifted sentence by sentence, wrote itself.

tukde tukde gang, urban naxal

When Alt News visited Musalman Para, local residents expressed bewilderment at the outcome and went on record about whom they had voted for. Among them were CPI(M) panchayat members and active ISF workers. altnews.in/where-did-our-vot…

Newsclick shut down, journalists lost their jobs - young reporters were called suspects. There should be an enquiry against the delhi police and ED officers in charge and should be made to pay damages

The BJP has historically struggled to make major electoral gains in Kerala. But the Sangh’s decades of grassroots organising has helped create pockets of influence. TNM visited areas now calling themselves ‘Sangh villages’ | @HarithaJohn1, @HarithaManav thenewsminute.com/kerala/thi…

BJP's larger aim is to make the youth accept the political status quo, irrespective of their grievances. So long as their protest is on a particular issue or even a particular minister, they will be tolerated.

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

A new study from Odisha reveals a troubling reality: 74% of schoolgirls miss 1–8 days of classes every menstrual cycle due to poor facilities and stigma. Researchers found that while most schools have separate girls’ toilets, over half lack basics like water, soap, and menstrual disposal systems — making attendance during periods nearly impossible. Pain, discomfort, lack of privacy, and social stigma compound the problem. Many girls feel unsafe or unsupported, pushing them out of classrooms month after month. Only 27% of schools have a nurse or health worker, and less than half have first‑aid kits. The study highlights a systemic gap in menstrual hygiene management and institutional support. Organizations like UNICEF, WaterAid, and local partners are now pushing for period‑friendly schools and public spaces — because no girl should have to choose between her education and her period.

Every Malayali speaks Salim Kumar: Honouring the actor’s oeuvre @lakshmibindu95 writes thenewsminute.com/kerala/eve…

Sitting next to N Ram of The Hindu and proudly saying that HITLER, a dictator who orchestrated the Holocaust that killed six million, is your inspiration for a government agency, Hydraa, needs a different level of confidence! People attacked me when I said Hydraa is evil, now the CM of Telangana confirmed the same. Hydraa is the bulldozer/demolition agency started by the Telangana Congress Government and the number of times it got rapped by the Telangana High Court is insane, happens almost once a week. Someone should tell the CM that he cannot brag so much about Hitler being his inspiration.

Why does the same corporate group keep emerging as the biggest beneficiary of major policy shifts? From airports to power exports, @PoojaPrasanna4 explains the rise of Adani & the questions it raises. youtube.com/watch?v=Jj1AyyZ8…

People of Bengaluru. Do turn up and support Sister Ranit and other nuns. The products they make will be sold here