1/4🔶We’ve just wrapped up the #SIRENAward2025 and announced this year’s winner, Sudipta Das, for their powerful story on how chronic illness and neurodivergence shaped a queer love story.
This year, we’re also spotlighting our honorary mentions. ⬇️
#ProjectSIREN
From the 2017 Walayar case to Coimbatore today: Experts point out a disturbing pattern where public outcry and law enforcement deflect systemic failures by putting a grieving mother’s character on trial. @meghamukundan_ & @HarithaManav write
https://t.co/22GZobZuPp
When @HarithaManav & I visited Coimbatore’s Bharatipuram village, public sentiment against mother was as high it was as against the accused.
At the bottom what gets overshadowed? The brutality of the crime itself.
Soon after days a 10 year old was raped & murdered, the blame shifts to her mother. This even escalated online debates as a video went viral, questioning her.
https://t.co/Ns7br9chSG
A viral video accusing a grieving mother has derailed the conversation around the Coimbatore POCSO case, turning local anger toward her more than the accused men.
Ground Report by @HarithaManav & @meghamukundan_
https://t.co/ZOYbHG4zEc
A viral video accusing a grieving mother has derailed the conversation around the Coimbatore POCSO case, turning local anger toward her more than the accused men. Ground Report by @HarithaManav & @meghamukundan_
https://t.co/2zGxs9BVpE
After a child’s rape and murder in Coimbatore, public scrutiny shifted from the male perpetrators to the mother’s morality. @HarithaManav & @meghamukundan_ ground report on how a viral video changed the narrative
https://t.co/TeDynbXeaa
Ground Report on Coimbatore POCSO case: Moral scrutiny of mother overshadows violence of men
Do read this sobering report by @meghamukundan_ and @HarithaManav. They write about how such slander can have consequences.
https://t.co/8OHvOC4vf4 #
For seven Dalit families, descendants of a bonded slave labourer, it is unimaginable to leave the place they were born and raised in, where their ancestors are buried, and where their families have been living for more than a 100 years. @HarithaManav https://t.co/fMq7rnAwjh
She was a viral face from the Kumbh. Her wedding became a symbol of secularism for some, of ‘love jihad’ for others. Now two states are fighting over her age and what it means.
Read @lakshmibindu95's deepdive
https://t.co/RWNCHyx9wC
On student Vedant Shrivastava receiving someone else’s answer sheet from CBSE, Coempt Edu Teck CEO VSN Raju says the company’s “current thinking” is that it was due to human error during scanning.
https://t.co/V7efyGM8Hy
PowerTrip Special: Congress leadership has asked Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah to step down, potentially ending months of speculation over the leadership tussle in the state.
He is learnt to have sought time till Thursday before resigning.
https://t.co/2dpYrtCuzX
Between all the Melodi fanfiction, somebody still has to cover what’s actually happening in the country.
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https://t.co/GZqSAV38Fj
Marion Biotech, the Indian company linked to the deaths of 68 children in Uzbekistan, allegedly operated through a network of shell companies, forged documents, and bribes. Its owners were never brought to book.
#Investigation by @tweets_prateekg
https://t.co/PKrDTx4GRM
Karnataka has rolled back the hijab ban and says students can now wear “limited traditional symbols” in classrooms.
It’s an important step — but it comes after years of pain, protests and lost education for hundreds of young Muslim girls.
TNM was on the ground through it all.