Thakara

ന്റുപ്പൂപ്പാക്കൊരാനേണ്ടാർന്ന് / Un film comme les autres

[Thakara @goldbone]

കാവൻഡിഷ് വെച്ചാൽ വെട്ടിനെരത്തും

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

https://t.co/JUvchQ0UI5

That's the notice. Pls read the 2nd paragraph in the 12th page.

Public Interest:
A practising paediatrician commenting on products sold alongside ORS in the pharmacies , which may be purchased by caregivers of sick children, is exercising her professional duty and constitutional right to free speech on a matter of Public health. This is squarely within the 'fair comment' exception to defamation under Indian law.
Saying that a doctor doesn't have the expertise to understand the regulatory framework and the scientific risk assessment is condescending and irrelevant. A law firm telling a practicing paediatrician that she lacks the expertise to comment on whether a product marketed in the health care space is safe for children! A practicing paediatrician has every professional and ethical obligation to voice concerns about products that may be confused with therapeutic agents at the point of sale, particularly in the pharmacies.

On FSSAI orders
The FSSAI's October 14th and 15th 2025 orders confirm the regulatory concern that the original ORSL branding was misleading. This criticism predated and was vindicated by the regulators own action. The rebranding to ERZL and the re-stickering process(old ORSL packs with ERZL stickers pasted over them!) is itself a ground-level consumer confusion issue that a healthcare professional is entitled to document and report.
The notice repeatedly cites the Delhi High Court's November 12, 2025 order stating the product is "not adulterated or unsafe for use". This is a weak argument. My criticism (from what the notice itself reproduces) was about the misbranding and not that the liquid inside was adulterated.

On Sucralose
The WHO'S 2023 guideline on non-sugar sweeteners is a legitimate peer-reviewed, systematic-review-based recommendation from world's apex health body. Citing it is not "unscientific ". The EFSA 2026 affirmation pertains to currently authorized uses and ADOIlevels-it does not contradict the WHO'S broader conditional recommendation regarding long-term metabolic effects. Science involves ongoing debate;characterizing a doctor's reference to WHO guidelines as "malicious" is itself a misrepresentation.
The notice cherry picks regulatory approvals(FSSAI, Codex, FDA, and the February EFSA reaffirmation) while completely ignoring the WHO'S own 2023 guidelines conditionally recommending against the use of non-sugar sweeteners (including Sucralose) for weight control and flagging potential long term risks including type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease with long term use. The WHO guidelines explicitly state that this applies to everyone except those with pre existing diabetes.

On Trademark
Nominative fair use permits naming a product for purposes of criticism, commentary, or review. No authorization is required to discuss a commercially available product in a non-commercial, public -interest context.

On the demands
The demands to take down all posts, provide a list for corporate review, and refrain from future commentary amount to prior restraint of speech- something Indian constitutional law views with deep suspicion. The Supreme Court of India has held that prior restraint on speech is permissible only in the narrowest of circumstances.

Implicit Threat
The notice should be recognized for what it is- a corporate attempt to silence a health care professional using litigation costs as a weapon. The doctor reserves her own right to bring this notice to public attention as an example of corporate intimidation of health advocates and to seek appropriate legal remedies if harassment continues

'Commercial benefit' accusation?!
This is an outrageous accusation that some one who is striving hard for public health advocacy has commercial motives! So, any doctor, who gains a following for evidence based health communication is commercially motivated and should be silenced?! The party actually benefitting commercially from the product is the company Kenvue/J&J!

[Kerala Tourism @KeralaTourism]

Love, harmony and hearts big enough for everyone. Welcome to God’s Own Country.

#LandOfHarmony #KeralaTourism

[Chungking Archive @chungking151994]

A collection
- 13 films (93 GB)
- Various qualities with English subs wherever found
https://t.co/dhdamZZMXe

(Reupload cause I missed a movie last time)

[Samar Halarnkar @samar11]

The 6 films that the #Modi govt did not want screened at the International Film Festival in Kerala. 3 were screened anyway, the other 3 were pulled.

The MEA threatened legal action & said they were not good for the "safety & security" of the country, per TOI.

Go figure.

1/n

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

Award-winning author and veteran Malayalam critic M. Leelavathi’s decision to forgo celebrating her 98th birthday on Tuesday, in solidarity with the victims of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, triggered a wave of online harassment and cyberbullying, primarily from right-wing social media users and groups.

https://t.co/Aqoit54ucD

[Aakar Patel @Aakar__Patel]

sucking up to apartheid-practising genocidal zionists because you hate 200 million of your own people is a policy only genius can conceive — and in year 12 the results of this genius foreign policy are now all around us

[Thakara @goldbone]

@dhanushgopinath മറക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന പേര്

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

French actress Adele Haenel has announced that she will sail with the Global Sumud Flotilla, a coalition of activists from 44 countries aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge Israel’s naval blockade.

Haenel said she could not “stand by and watch the genocide taking place in Gaza”, describing the mission as a peaceful effort to open a humanitarian corridor and bring urgent aid to the besieged territory.

“It scares me, because we are on simple sailing boats facing an army that has shown immense violence so far,” she admitted, while stressing her determination to act out of a commitment to justice.

[Thakara @goldbone]

Much-hyped, super-successful new Malayalam film is a tedious avial of genre tropes in service of nothing.

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

Remembering our friend, fighter, Umar's adopted Mom. It's been 4 years since Gauri Lankesh was shot down by masked cowards with a 'lucky' gun.

Shot down but not silenced. She was in Bilal Bagh, Mumbai bagh, Shaheen Bagh. Smiling, singing, sloganeering. She was right there.

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

This week’s comic for @thenewsminute

[Rohin Bhatt🏳️‍🌈 @BhattRohin]

What a supine bar, headed by spineless leaders looks like.

To talk about her fairness and empathy is a cruel joke on all 9 people including Umar, Gulfisha, Shakeel,etc who she said should be locked up without a trail.

[N.S. Madhavan @NSMlive]

A short short-story in Manorama weekly.

[PenPencilDraw @penpencildraw]

Schrodinger’s case.

[Soraya Sebghati @SorayaSpaghetti]

This is the star of an Aki Kaurismaki film

[Shabbir Ahmed @Ahmedshabbir20]

G Venkatraman, new incharge DGP of TN.

The bigger story is Shailesh Kumar Yadav, who was indicted by Justice Aruna Jagadeesan commission in connection with Thoothukudi firing quietly retires.

CM MK Stalin had promised action, nothing happened!

https://t.co/NDT5CGZaHk

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

When the RSS' student wing, the ABVP unleashed violence in South Asian University over fish being served in the mess, a Bangladeshi scholar, Sudeepto Das, stood up to them.

For this he was allegedly assaulted -- and then eventually expelled.

https://t.co/yNsE0RsiFv

[Areeb Uddin @legallyuddin]

Such a powerful picture (in both ways).

"Seen four Chief Justices; yet to see justice"

A sketch by Manjul on Umar's 1500 days in jail. We have seen rape convicts getting numerous paroles but accused/under trials, not even bail?

[Aditi Agrawal @Aditi_muses]

ICYMI: The Delhi HC has ordered MeitY and DoT to block Sci-Hub across India.

H/t: https://t.co/c7pplhlibs