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Jan 6 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This week, our #BigStory is a hunt for an Emeergency Contraceptive Pill in Chennai. Why did we do this? A few months ago, when we did a similar story, Health Minister @Subramanian_ma said it is available in govt hospitals. Really? We checked
But our reporting was not limited to doing ground checks. We got RTI responses from 45 from government general hospitals across the state. @KuthaliPu and @NidharshanaR write on what the RTIs said and the dissonance on ground. thenewsminute.com/article/tnm-in…
These two young reporters did get an ECP at one hospital. But it came with a heavy price called humiliation. Unmarried women asking for ECPs, you can imagine the stares and whispers. They chronicled it here. thenewsminute.com/article/dehuma…
Director of drugs control and Dept of Family Welfare are all saying diff things. Disappointing. Why does a progressive state like Tamil Nadu have a problem with selling ECPs? This blame game has gone on for too many years. @mkstalin, please step in

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What is happening in Telangana deserves more attention. On October 26, three people were arrested for trying to poach three TRS MLAs for Rs 50 cr each. Police said they are BJP agents- Ramachandran Bharathi (blue shirt), Nandakumar (grey) and Simhayaji (saffron).
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Nov 2, 2022
We are happy to launch The Chinmayi Show on @thenewsminute. Over the years, we have seen people, especially women write to Chinmayi about the issues they face. This show will tell you their stories, connect to experts. @Chinmayi.

The first episode has @parvatweets and @chandrarsrikant speak about horrific episodes of stalking they faced, their fears, what they learnt. Chinmayi also shares experiences that other women shared with her
Dr Prasanna with @pcvc2000 tells women and families what they must do in case of stalking. Some of the stories that women shared are downright scary and disturbing. One woman was stalked when she was young, she didn’t complain. But years later she saw the guy arrested…
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Oct 26, 2022
Mohanlal can have dialogues in this movie about ‘stepny’ and ‘Jackie’ in a movie scene. But we can’t say shame on you Mohanlal. The scene from his movie is in my next tweet, after watching it, do tell Zufi what you think
Can you imagine. This is not a dialogue spouted by some newbie who was desperate for a movie. This is Mohanlal
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Oct 21, 2022
In simple points. Why the Arumughaswamy Commission report should be thrown in the bin.
1. The whole report hinges on the notion that Sasikala and Jayalalithaa had a fallout and therefore S wanted bad things to happen to J. And this is based on a Tehelka report from 2012
Has the Commission got any evidence to show that this Tehelka story was true? Nope. Does Commission have any proof to show that S planned to kill J? No. It simply says, because S was thrown out by J briefly in 2011, there was a feeling of unhappiness
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Aug 29, 2022
Meet Athira and Shameem. After dating each other for years, got married in Dec 2019. A few weeks before their wedding, RW bullies harassed them using their marriage registration notice. Athira went to court challenging provisions of the
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absent. Section 13 of the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872,
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A short story about a really nice man named Omer in Vienna. I went to Vienna last month to attend the International Press Institute's World Congress. And at my clumsy best, I lost my wallet. I am one of those travellers who keeps all their cards in the same wallet 😀
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Anyway, more nightmares and finally I reached back Bengaluru. A few days later, I noticed a man called Omer commenting on random photos on my Insta account saying 'I found your wallet'. When I checked, he had been messaging me on insta and Fb
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