Today is World TB Day, raising awareness for tuberculosis which still claims 3,500 lives per day.
THE PHANTOM PLAGUE by @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social is the definitive social history of TB, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor.
At least 64 killed, dozens reported missing in Ethiopia landslides, floods
At least 64 killed, dozens reported missing in Ethiopia landslides, floods https://aje.news/wks409
My "state of rural health" series for @PARInetwork debuts today w a story of 2 kids who r besties after meeting at a local exorcism ritual in rural Betul, M.P
Also, follow PARI on Insta/ Twitter etc. It is the best eg of archival journalism of rural spaces
ruralindiaonline.org/article/of-d...
hey hey!!
Umm... its the size of my palm but I'm not gonna to go too close. You been well?
The orb weaver in my garden pulled an all-nighter.
Apparently the zig-zag thingy provides structural integrity to the web + a hiding place for the spider.
Form. Function. Flourish.
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
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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One would think the reporter had access to google or chatgpt or some such....
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
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"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
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.
“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
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.
niemanreports.org/india-taliba...
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...
