Roy Mathew

Journalist, photographer, computer programmer and nature lover. Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.

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@ganant @chennaicorp Walk, but not speak.

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Kerala Revised Budget 2026-27: analysis
https://t.co/r8v9z1QNdh

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@ganant @polimernews Such a provision is there in the Forest Act. But no official has been prosecuted as far as I know.

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Swot analysis of Kerala Budget (revised), 2026-27 using AI. See previous post for Budget highlights.

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Revised Budget of Kerala for current year: highlights
https://t.co/SySts90RnK

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Kerala's fiscal health report: an assessment
https://t.co/2WN2HzmVFe

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Summary of Kerala's fiscal health report
https://t.co/HnvCow1H1F

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#Kerala #finance #whitepaper

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@BalakrishnanR Ask AI to look into the reports.

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Kerala Health Care sector needs reform
Kerala has long taken pride in the strength of its public healthcare system. However, incidents during the previous government’s tenure revealed a system under severe strain and often poorly managed.
https://t.co/67jRGj0X0Q

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Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

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Intellectual property rights of ECI to withhold election data.
https://t.co/pdLo9kAjJE

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The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer continues to contend that data on malfunctioning of electronic voting machines during polling is the intellectual property right of Election Commission of India and declines to release the information under RTI Act.

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Kerala Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan has announced plans to establish a dedicated government department for the elderly to carry out new schemes to support senior citizens. He indicated that the initiative will be modelled on Japan’s system.
https://t.co/aYW4MIiu6B

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@drshamamohd @ShanimolO Technical error: She is not yet deputy speaker and not even an MLA until sworn in.

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The Kerala Cabinet today decided to publish a white paper on the State’s finances, aiming to present a factual account of what is widely described as a dire financial situation.
The practice of issuing such a document dates back to 2001 ...
https://t.co/dY5XEXGfnD

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Grok's photo-realistic rendering of an old Mughal painting from Rajasthan.

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Night at Museum in Thailand.

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Sunday musing: A friend raises a good point: why do we need 4 days @ECISVEEP after final voting for counting to begin? Think about Kerala and Assam: EVMs have been kept in strong rooms for almost 4 weeks. Doesn’t happen in any other part of the world.

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@Ram_Guha They said copies of book on kurinji supplied by us were all returned. Now, they can say that they were lost in floods.