Vidya Krishnan

Of doctors, demons, and best friend therapies Rural MP is plagued by a mental health crisis you can spot in events like Betul district’s bhootan mela. Nearly half the state's 54 districts do not have a single mental health specialist

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

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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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In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary The government’s performed outrage over Gates’s Epstein links underlined its indifference to violence against women.

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....

Amazon confirms outbreak of ‘Victorian disease’ at warehouse The disease, which is treatable with a vaccination, broke out at an Amazon warehouse, the company confirmed

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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How chess helped me understand grief A personal reflection on loss, memory, and the quiet lessons of chess.

"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
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How chess helped me understand grief A personal reflection on loss, memory, and the quiet lessons of chess.

"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...

The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

“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

The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

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 Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

“tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

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 Hosts the Taliban, But Not Female Reporters Taliban officials, visiting India, bar women journalists from their press conference

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By: Vidya Krishnan on Saturday, November 1, 2025

India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press - Nieman Reports A spate of new legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes Vidya Krishnan for Nieman Reports.

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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India Hosts the Taliban, But Not Female Reporters - Nieman Reports Taliban officials, visiting India, bar women journalists from their press conference

"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 - Nieman Reports Taliban officials, visiting India, bar women journalists from their press conference

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.

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In Tamil Nadu, caste is making an academic fight twice as hard to stay in the room With a critical date before the Madras High Court hearing that would decide on his academic career drawing near, the plaintiff has an unusual request to his leg

The Indian state makes wars against Dalit scholars in devious ways.

My latest about caste apartheid in Indian universities
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India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press - Nieman Reports A spate of new legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes Vidya Krishnan for Nieman Reports.

⚠️ 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.

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In Tamil Nadu, caste is making an academic fight twice as hard to stay in the room With a critical date before the Madras High Court hearing that would decide on his academic career drawing near, the plaintiff has an unusual request to his leg

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...

Trump’s aid cuts have broken global health – but we can fight back Trump’s aid cuts have broken global health but we can fight back

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:

Trump Announces 100% Tariffs on Pharma Imports America is India's largest export market for pharmaceutical goods.

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.
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Vidya Krishnan, journaliste : « Depuis cinq ans, les prisonniers politiques indiens font preuve d’un courage extraordinaire » TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », la journaliste d’investigation alerte sur le sort des opposants au régime de Narendra Modi emprisonnés en Inde. Elle évoque notamment le cas d’Umar Khalid, lead...

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."

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