Balaji🇮🇳

Tamil speaking Indian (Now an NRI). Gandhian. #PramanikForPresident

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

If you are here to check my profile, see this and go!

[Vipin @Vipscorp]

@INCIndia @RahulGandhi @INCOdisha

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@DhivCM @DrJaihind @suchitraarya Congrats Dhivya

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

The RSS is an al male anti-constitutional cult that believes women are the property of men.

I believe in Shiva-Shakti.

That's why it gives me such joy to fight them.

What's beautiful is that many of their “own” women are on my side.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

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.
https://t.co/PsxZZCngyV

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.
https://t.co/0pATUIYADm

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.
https://t.co/fOC9AU3jaR

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: https://t.co/cgLIoEXExG

If anyone can help out in this situation please reach out to Medico Friend Circle - https://t.co/OT2D2E3DuW

[Salman Soz @SalmanSoz]

Wow!. As happens with malfeasance, especially when public pressure increases against it, the truth just keepings coming out in an unstoppable torrent.

[Parakala Prabhakar @parakala]

Here tumbles out another skeleton from our ECI’s cupboard.

Now, it is a regular, daily fare.

Disband this ECI.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@ShekharGupta How is this unlike talking to a akhand bharat seeking Hindutva fascist speak? I don’t see them in jail??
Sharjeel Imam’s ideology maybe skewed but his liberty under the constitution is not.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@mkishoren @kaushikrj6 You are speaking against constitution. Constitution explicitly states that your freedom of speech is restricted to guard friendly relations with foreign states.

Therefore you are anti national.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@mkishoren @kaushikrj6 Pakistanis and Indians celebrated Independence Day together in London in August.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@jd1997 @Auntymatter1 @SussexHenryVIII No one is asking people living in Jerusalem to leave man. We are all demanding that people living in Gaza and West Bank also get the same rights, privileges and dignity. Basic human dignity - equality.

[Azra @AzraATweets]

There is no low he hasn’t already sunk to and no low he doesn’t keep sinking to.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@anandvasu @sardesairajdeep @BCCI I am just a fan. Not an expert. So I’ll accept defeat (though my opinion was for the India A team not the national team)

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@anandvasu @sardesairajdeep @BCCI I’ll pass on - Washi - state bias 🤏 (I’d still call him a bowling allrounder because at this point, a pure batter will have a massive hundred to show for it)

But Pant at 4 vs Pant at 5? Pant at 5 wins! Which means, 4 is open where Sarfaraz fits - my logic.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@anandvasu @sardesairajdeep @BCCI The irony is 2 of them are wicket keepers and one is a bowling allrounder. I still see Sarfaraz fitting in this squad. Pant as no 4 doesnt sit well with me

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@Iyervval Rahul Gandhi has to morning and evening tap his attendance on Twitter or conduct a INC office Presser?

If Press conf is the yard stick, 13 years AWOL PM is a bigger issue than RaGa missing his morning brief

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@PoonamNalvade @KGRao3ih7 @PKakkar_ That’s how knowledge works.

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@KGRao3ih7 @PKakkar_ Of course anyone who followed the tragedy knows the Kukis and Meitis. We also know why the Manipur CM resigned and the reason there is so much distrust.

Do you?

[Sundar V @sundar217]

DMK govt deserves appreciation for their work in GCC area, though several suburban areas are compromised. Still very early to declare this, always Oct/Nov early rainfalls are manageable. nov end/Dec 1st week monster is the real test #ChennaiRains #ChennaiRain #ChennaiCorporation

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@EmergingRoy South could have had 25-30 great cities, well connected and with better median income.

But we under invested in public infrastructure, transferred all our resources to private land mafias (gated communities) and relied on cheap labour for everything else!

[Balaji🇮🇳 @balatweets]

@ravikchandar “Block everyone in this thread” 🙂