In one journal entry, Aiswarya Unninathan wrote, “He doesn’t know what love is”, while in another she said, “I hate my life." She also said, “he will kill me one day”🧵
26-year-old Aiswarya, who died by suicide in Kerala’s Kollam on Sep 15, 2022, had penned journal entries that reveal vivid, shocking and minute details of three years of #DomesticViolence by her husband Kannan Nair.
It was in 2019 that Kannan came across a photo of Aiswarya on social media and expressed his wish to marry her. “He was quiet, with a calm and patient demeanour,” Aishwarya’s mother says, adding that Kannan never let the mask slip.
However, a few days before the wedding, Aiswarya told her mother that the marriage will not work and that Kannan had, during an argument, said that he would “break her bones”.
“Reading her diary, we realised how much she endured. The only thing I don’t understand is why she stayed in the marriage,” Aiswarya’s mother, as she narrates what happened👇 @AzeefaFathima thenewsminute.com/article/diary-…
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TNM reporters went on the ground in five south Indian cities to explore whether the adoption of technology has changed the status of manual scavengers. Here’s what we found 🧵
Nizamabad has bought just two jetting machines, writes @Bala__G.
Since 2013, the family of only one manual scavenging worker who died received compensation - and even that was given 12 years after the victim’s death. thenewsminute.com/article/what-s…
In Kerala, four years ago, CM Pinarayi Vijayan officially inaugurated Bandicoot, a sewer-cleaning robot to clean manholes and sewage lines and phase out manual scavenging. Kozhikode is yet to invest in the technology.