My first attempt at publishing a journal article is now out. It is a tiny piece from my PhD - not as original- as I wanted it to be. But I am glad I started here. I had a good editor and neither of the reviewers were the dreaded ones.

I like Korean drama for normalising older women younger men stories. I was also quite pissed with how Premam disappeared the older Malar even if it was done well /as far as emotional stakes were concerned.

What should economics education in Kerala look like? Our curriculum reform report reviews seven syllabi and proposes changes grounded in Kerala’s realities—including caste, sexuality, care and ecology. Read: knrajeconomicsclub.org/repor…

A good week where two cats climbed on my lap without an invite while I worked.

Indeed Porotta! I was thinking kothu-pothi-and the one which disintegrates

Fall. ❤️

Speaking at University of Edinburgh tommorow.

a) Ambani-Birla Report on Reforms in Higher Education b) lobbying by FICCI etc c) GATTS offer 2005 The idea is to produce a commodity more aligned with the global marketplace as they (their Big 4 consultants) envisioned it.

Painful to be a student at Ashoka U. A hundred emails everyday from clubs - societies- events that I don’t care - which has ridiculous baity subject lines-that I have to delete to avoid the dystopian reality of 1000 unread emails!

Salute to the #Brazilian people for hitting streets and ensuring that @LulaOficial is re-elected for the 4th time as the president of Brazil. The social movements compassion and committed cadre when in mission mode can defeat the organised right wing forces. #LulaPresidente

Lula: "Brazil refuses to be anyone's backyard."

Watched Edge of Democracy three to four years back and I was so moved with how the maker had talked about the deliberate throwing of Lula and her childhood memories of growing up in a different Brazil.

Finding all social media platforms so repetitive. What do you do to break the rut? I feel like I am in a loop- food pic- rage - selfie- screenshots of article- . I participate in it too but wondering if there is a way to infuse life into this.

A word that I hate - via Malayali influencer space- “thoookum” . Sushin Shyam used it unfortunately to hint at the eventual success of a Mal movie but godawful creators have now used it for everyone and made it a dumb word.

Going home to eat this. I am such a fan of Kanji. I could have it everyday - with chammanthi, thoran and fish fry.

Sometimes, in the desire to be original and precise, we really lose a lot of time ruminating over what we produce as writing. I think one has to write several bad forms of writing and publish - before we get at something that feels right.

If SRK can be selfish to "protect himself, his business and his family," then we can be selfish too and call him out for promoting an evil regime that affects us. I think that's a fair enough position.

My dear friends, please, I hope to demand your absolute attention to this matter: In 2018, my junior from St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Dr. Randall Sequeira (middle in the pic), trekked up a steep, bauxite-rich plateau in Odisha to hold a monsoon health camp in the indigenous Kutiya Kondh village of Kutrumali. In a piece he wrote then titled "Kutrumali’s Demons," Randall described sleeping under a dripping school roof in freezing fog, borrowing utensils from a local health worker to cook khichdi, and waking up at 6 AM to a line of tribal mothers. He wrote with heartbreak about treating malnourished toddlers with protruding bellies and visible ribs, listening to stories of stillbirths and chronic fevers, while noticing the shiny new solar lights installed by a mining conglomerate eyeing the aluminium ore beneath the villagers' feet. Comparing his small medical team to hobbits sheltering in the night, Randall worried about the outside forces coming for that fragile village. Randall stayed with the tribal/ adivasi community to serve them. After St. John’s and an MD in Internal Medicine from SMS Jaipur, he gave up every comfort of urban medicine to live in Kalahandi, recognizing that clinical prescriptions are meaningless when indigenous communities are stripped of their forests, water, and dignity. On the night of October 16, Odisha police picked up Dr. Randall Sequeira and Dalit activist Laxman Naik at 11 PM from his home in Bhawanipatna. A gentle physician who has spent years trekking up hills to save tribal children is now locked in Rayagada sub-jail under frivolous but draconian charges (attempt to murder, dacoity), simply for standing with Adivasis peaceful protesting the mining of their sacred hills in Sijimali and Kutrumali. thewire.in/rights/randall-se… Odisha Govt. said it will cut down forests to connect tribal villages. But it was a way to bypass green laws and fast track London based Vedanta’s, and Adani's mining plans. Local organisations estimate that around 45 villages depend on these hills and would be affected. reporters-collective.in/trc/… The state has answered with repression rather than dialogue. In the last three years, at least 43 police cases have been filed and over a hundred Adivasis and Dalits, both women and men, have been incarcerated in Odisha jails. For example, from In March and april 2026, 8, 2026, to April 8, 2026, within one month, 24 people were sent to jail, 217 were made accused, and the number of “others” total 1,140. An activist who was not named in the original FIRs, but has since been implicated in about 12 cases, so that bail in one case is followed by arrest in another. This pattern of capture and releases have been used to crush rational dissent. Dr. Randall understood that being a good doctor means understanding that prescriptions cannot compensate for the denial of land rights, that surgery cannot undo displacement and that no medical can substitute for the basic infrastructure a government has failed to provide. thehindu.com/sci-tech/health… To my fellow medical fraternity, and every citizen with a conscience: a kind physician who embodies the highest ethics of our profession is being criminalized to clear the way for bauxite mining. Please do not let his voice be buried in a sub-jail. Amplify this, demand due process, and demand the immediate release. Please sign in this form to show solidarity: forms.gle/o2Rj2Uu3tXaoWu9dA If anyone can help out in this situation please reach out to Medico Friend Circle - mfcindia.org/

People can have differences and nuanced takes on CJP but it is inexcusable to remain silent on the custody of Ashutosh and Saurav. This is an egregious violation of a citizen's liberty. Please speak up. If not on principle, than in self-interest, for this is setting a precedent.