Divya Unnikrishnan

Books. Music. Magic.

[Divya Unnikrishnan @UNNI_DIVYA]

@rgmlk I’m a Teach For India Fellow in Bangalore.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

Rich people brought this virus into India territory & weren't even quarantined because the govt didn't want to inconvenience them.

The poor are being singled out to suffer. If Modi was half as smart as he is vicious, he'd have stopped this-- only for the bad optics of it.

[Adv. M @RURALINDIA]

PM-CARES is a Public Charitable Trust. The Prime Minister is the Chairman & members include DM, HM & FM.

Stated Objective: dealing with any kind of emergency or distress situation, like posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to provide relief to the affected.

So far so good

[Ammu Kannampilly @akannampilly]

Toxic masculinity comes so naturally to some Indian politicians that even in a pandemic they can't resist blaming women for the crimes committed against them. #Ramayana

[Haaris Rasheed @haarisrasheed]

Rant:
3 years of pg in a govt hospital and you realise how many people fight daily for survival. Sometimes you get irritated as to why this patient is asking so many questions only to realise, that it is not easy to follow up in a govt hospital. He has to stand in a line at 6am,

[♤ @mrudzilla]

will indian men ever realise that wife jokes aren’t funny

[Flyingcursor @flyingcursor]

[Thread] In between all the WFH, hand washing, video calls & house chores, we’ve got something more you can do.
In this thread, we’re collating a list of organisations that are running fundraisers to support daily wagers, the marginalised & frontline workers in these tough times

[Aakar Patel @Aakar__Patel]

Brought to you with the same competence as demonetisation.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I understand the lockdown is necessary at this point. But having witnessed first hand the gap between "essential services will be available" and restrictions on travel and police actually preventing people from reaching those essential services, I have these questions.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

Government's priorities are singularly focussed on making huge demands from citizens while curtailing civil liberties w/o saying how the govt is going to help.

We have the right to know how prepared the govt is & how bad is it likely to get.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Typically Modi has unleashed a disaster again.

Not a word on how people will procure veggies & groceries if they can’t step out. Since curfew begins 00:00, there’s PANIC buying happening outside.

Instead of empty platitudes, ONE WORD on food stores being open would’ve helped.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

This is how it works, friends.

The govt sneakily tried to favor 1 company & demanded US FDA/European CE approvals for Covid-19 testing kits.

Thanks to a LOT of you all raising a stink, the govt was shamed & had to backtrack.

This is great news.

https://t.co/oHaHGdT3SY

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Doctors are being asked to vacate their rented houses by landlords.

Airlines staff are being ostracised.

Doctors are being trolled for demanding basic facilities in the face of a pandemic.

A few days back someone said, we are a morally corrupt society.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

Two requests to ppl new to health reporting in #India:
1. pls call govt docs & not pvt hosp owners for quotes/studio debates.

Dr Trehan/Dr Prathap Reddy & Dr Devi Shetty aren't inf disease experts/or respiratory disease expert.

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

Yesterday, Ms Sitharaman says that she has “no idea” about the economic task force that the PM announced and that it is “not her responsibility”. This is the govt that we expect to save our hides from the Covid catastrophe? Bang some more plates, please...

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

Explaining #COVID19 To Children

It's important children understand the risks. But don't instill fear.

🚸 Ensure they get age-appropriate info

🧼 Focus on topics like hygiene

🧬If possible, explain the science

📺 Limit exposure to news

Keep curiosity alive.

Give hope.

[अंशुल @Ghair_Kanooni]

An appeal from a doctor friend. #Covid19India

[Prof. Diwakar Vaish @diwakarvaish]

This is an SOS
We will soon be over with Ventilator's raw material & production will entirely halt. None of the international freight service is fully operational. There is a huge need and we are stuck the only Govt. can help us.
@PMOIndia @narendramodi @mohfw
@dgca

[full-snack developer 🇭🇹 @notdanilu]

For those of you who don’t know, Cuba’s largest export isn’t tabacco or sugar, it’s doctors. Life expectancy in Cuba is greater than life expectancy in the U.S, and they have more doctors per capita than *most* developed nations (three times as many than the U.S).