Arya Khedeker

Tech enthusiast | Goan| Mom

[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

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@DrPramodPSawant your health minister should be in Therapy and not GMC.

[Dr.Dhruv Chauhan @DrDhruvchauhan]

A doctor in gmc GOA was suspended without any enquiry and arrogantly with misbehaviour shown by a minister in goa and even instructing him to learn “How to stand in front of him”

The apology should be issued and his suspension should be revoked immediately
@DrPramodPSawant @goacm to intervene

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@zomatolive Totally fed up! You still haven’t refunded my amount for #BryanAdams concert tickets cancellation.
It’s been over 3 weeks of follow-up. Pathetic and unresponsive support.

Anyone else has the same issue after #Goa concert was announced?

#zomatolive #zomato

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

Just like how UP/Bihar attracts tourists from all over the world. 😉

[In Goa 24x7 @InGoa24x7]

Events like Chhath puja will boost tourism: CM
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#Goa #GoaNews #PramodSawant #chhathpuja2024 #GoaTourism

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

The irony for the people of Ponda is tolerating the huge Chaturthi hoardings put up by the ‘khaddes’ of various political parties while trying to safely navigate the ‘khaddes’ on the road. 😔

#Goa #goaroads

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@RanjitNaik2013 You should come and see Ponda post office. There is no sense of dignity for people in general, the queue sometimes extends to the road

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

Patent Granted! 14 year old Ananya Naik and her 15 year old teammate, Swayam Kakodkar have been granted a patent by Indian Patent Office for their invention - System and Method for Saline Level Notification. Thank you @gsinc_goa for your support!
@goanewshub @GoaITpro

[HermanGomes_journo @Herman_Gomes]

First Goas Hills, now fire at the world famous picturesque Vagator Hilltop beach allegedly burnt. Slowly, Goa is being butchered for the real estate Mafia. This is today afternoon. #SaveGoa

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

Ananya and Swayam’s project Smart Saline won a GOLD and Special award of excellence @ India International Innovation and Invention Expo (INEX)

#startupindia #goanews

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@GoaElectricity we don’t have power for almost 24 hrs now at Perigol, Ponda. What is happening?

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

We are so grateful to the amazing team at @gsinc_goa which helped Ananya and Swayam build an actual product from an idea.
We hope you reach many more Goan students and help incubate their ideas!
Innovation Express || Smart Saline || GNH https://t.co/gfMbBr58a5 via @YouTube

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@PetaIndia @peta

[khedekardurga @khedekardurga]

@timesofindia @GoaTimesTOI is spreading hatred towards dogs in Goa by writing articles without any research. Goan feeders + dogs are getting targeted on almost daily basis now. Stop these paid articles to spread hatred @timesofindia @GoaTimesTOI @PetaIndia @goacm

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@goodkarma_is_ez @gsinc_goa @StartupGoa @GoaITpro Thank you 🙏

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

Ananya & Swayam are the WINNERS of Goa’s young innovators award 🥳🥳 for their prototype SMART SALINE. We are extremely grateful to @gsinc_goa for their support and the amazing opportunities they provide to the innovators.

@StartupGoa @GoaITpro

[Prakash W. Kamat @PrakashWKamatPK]

Goa going gone...
highlights: massive Hill cutting in Wadwad-#Curca in survey number 20/1-A.
TCP Minister should take immediate action and stop this destruction..
The vegetation gone.... Poor birds lost their homes
@visrane

[manoj parab @manojparab9]

RGP MLA @Viresh_Borkar highlights massive Hill cutting in Wadwad-Curca in survey number 20/1-A. TCP Minister @visrane should take immediate action and stop this destruction.

[Srishti @seekingsrishti]

Six months ago, a 17-year-old girl living in Delhi's crowded Nawada neighbourhood decided to block her 20-year-old neighbour on social media.

“He was trying to be too friendly. I did not approve of his advances. So I blocked him.”

[Susanta Nanda IFS (Retd) @susantananda3]

This is how far the
‘development’ has taken our wildlife.

[Yash Ganthe @yash_ganthe]

Broken glass bottles are strewn all over #Goa. Just a walk anywhere in Goa reveals how dangerous this is for anyone. There should be a deposit system so that bottles are returned and reused. @ianuragthakur @fadnavis_amruta @goacm @IFFIGoa

[Arya Khedeker @aryakhed]

@RohanKhaunte Thank you for your wishes and kind words 🙏