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[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

"The water purifiers, the UPS/inverter and the air purifiers in our homes are not signs of success. They are symbols of failure."
h/t @soumyadip

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Hello @MohanMOdisha -
mockery of law & due
process in illegal arrest of Dr. Randall Sequeira who has devoted life to helping adivasi community. Govt acting for Vedanta & Adani & bulldozing indigenous peoples. Shame! @theliverdoc , @saptagiriulaka

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@theliverdoc Thankyou Dr for such clarity.
No one can help the prejudiced!

[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

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@theliverdoc Kudos to you Dr. Just lovely💐

[Rahul Gautam @Scribe_Rahul]

Mark my words - Youngsters hitting streets will bring change in our social behavior too for good soon. This boy is not just cleaning mess after India Bloc March but also nailing multiple things 'ailing' our society. Kudos to him 👏

Video courtsey - @Elizasherine

[The Wire @thewire_in]

"We have the right to our roads, and we have the right to protest": Senior Advocate Rebecca John on Why She is Joining the protest

#VoteChori #Delhi #India

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@theliverdoc Big big congratulations Dr💐
The fish though❤️

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@free_thinker Couldn't agree more

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@IAmSudhirMishra Lovely. Looking so much forward to this Sir

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@DrDeepakKrishn1 Thankyou for acknowledging this Dr

[Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy @DrDeepakKrishn1]

Glad it changed. My mom would be perpetually in the kitchen cooking or making coffee/snacks for someone or the other at all possible times. This people arriving unannounced was a burden on women. Men would happily sit and chatter away.

[Manjula Singh @SinghManju37713]

Patriarchy is so deeply rooted that WOMEN can walk into someone else's house as guests and still somehow end up in the kitchen.
While the MEN even from the host family get to sit back, relax, chill, enjoy the food, and talk about how much they sacrifice for their families. 🙄

[atul kasbekar @atulkasbekar]

Just a thought

Tukaram Mundhe is a household name right now, and one spoken of wt enormous respect and regard

You may argue with his methods, but surely we deserve to know that the food we eat is safe and that basic standards are being enforced

There’s a larger lesson here for our govt and civil servants.

Do your job with this kind of commitment and u won’t merely hold office. You’ll build a legacy.

People will speak of u years later, as they still do of G.R. Khairnar and T.N. Seshan.

2 immediate opportunities come to mind:

• Mumbai traffic
The cop who finally sorts out our hopelessly psychotic traffic, nails people driving on the wrong side and explains that red lights are not optional, will become an enduring urban legend.

• Open spaces and greenery
The civil servant or politician who becomes an uncompromising warrior for preserving Mumbai’s open spaces and increasing its green cover will go down in folklore

Singapore, New York and Hong Kong prove that dense, crowded global cities don’t have to surrender every available square foot to concrete.

Competence is remembered

Sometimes, simply doing your job exceptionally well might be the greatest legacy of all

@mybmc @MumbaiPolice @CPMumbaiPolice

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@theliverdoc Happy Birthday dear Dr. Wishing you another feisty year ahead💐🎂

[Joy @Joydas]

Dr Manmohan Singh faced many challenges but he never had to spend money on hoardings all over asking for respect. He had earned respect

[Karnataka Congress @INCKarnataka]

PTI has apologised. In writing.

The false reporting of Shri @PriyankKharge’s remarks was amplified across television screens, websites and social media within the hour. The correction will receive only a fraction of that attention. That imbalance is not incidental. It is how misinformation acquires legitimacy.

An apology after the damage is done is not enough. Every platform that amplified the false report has a responsibility to give the correction the same prominence and urgency as the original misinformation.

Hope those in the wrong can correct the record with the same speed, visibility and seriousness with which they distorted it.

[Cyble @Cyble19]

@theliverdoc Lovely post🙌

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

When the politician who has done more for Indian hockey than anyone else raises a concern, it deserves to be heard. Indian hockey belongs to every Indian—not to any political colour. Don’t stain our sporting legacy with colour politics. 🇮🇳🏑😡🙏

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

I am deeply anguished to know that the legendary colour of the Indian hockey team’s jersey has been changed to saffron. The iconic shade of blue of the Indian hockey team is not just a colour. It is an emotion associated with the nation’s sporting heritage.

For decades, this colour united us in hope, in victory, in defeat and in the pursuit of sporting excellence. We have cried, laughed, celebrated and stood proudly with our men and women in blue. Wearing the blue jersey our teams have won Olympic medals with the national anthem playing on the world stage. #Blue is derived from the blue chakra in our national flag. It is a symbol of our national pride and identity. The colour blue belongs to every Indian.

When the national hockey teams were struggling for sponsors, #Odisha created history by being the first and only state to support our national teams and our beloved game. Every Odia across the globe was proud of the state’s gift to national hockey. After 41 long years, our men’s team won an Olympic medal. Just because the government changed in Odisha, it should not change our national team colours. This is petty politics of the worst kind.

Our blue jersey is to us what the iconic stripes are to Argentina and the yellow jersey is to Brazil. It is etched in our collective memory. Any change in this colour, is a crass attempt to erase our priceless sporting legacy. National symbols are meant to unite us not divide.

I am given to understand that this step was taken under pressure from the BJP Government in Odisha. Those in authority may deny it, but the fact is that for the last two years, everybody in Odisha has seen the obsession of this government with changing colours of buildings, buses and even bridges. It is the only work that is happening in Odisha today. But now the same government has changed the colours of our national team. I strongly condemn this attempt by BJP Odisha to politicise a national game like hockey. It has deeply hurt the sentiments of lakhs of sports lovers across the country and the pride with which Odisha has supported the national hockey.

#Hockey
#MenInBlue
#WomenInBlue