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Deepa Kurup
@deepakurup
PhD candidate @UniofOxford @ODID; IndiraGandhi Scholar @SomervilleOx Hon Secretary @OxfordUCU Journalist @the_hindu (2007-15); Ox Weidenfeld Scholar(2014-15)
Apr 26, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Amidst a raging pandemic, the Indian govt deregulated vaccine pricing.

India's private pharma firms celebrated by announcing extortionate prices

The two firms will charge the state Rs.400-600(£4-6), and private hospitals 600-1200 (£6-12)
THREAD on why we must question this The two vaccines —

1. @SerumInstIndia’s Covishield (Oxford-Astrazeneca) priced (£4-6)
2. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin (vaccine developed by National Institute of Virology) (£6-12)

— are now expressly unaffordable to millions.
Now for the questions:
Apr 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
B.1.617 is now the dominant variant in India.

And we know precious little about it so far in terms of transmissiblity or immune evasion. And we also know from @Rukmini (see thread) that the govt's data points on "post-vaccination breakthrough infections" was misleading.

(this may interest you @ArisKatzourakis )

Nov 26, 2020 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
India's working class is on strike

10 central Trade Unions & Agriworkers Unions are protesting labour deregulation and anti-farmer(pro-corporate) laws that together strike at the welfare of millions of working households(1/n)

#MazdoorKisanStrike is estimated 250million in size Listen to this @newsclickin interview with A.R. Sindhu, national secretary of CITU, where she explains why the response to #MazdoorKisanStrike has been strong, the new labour codes and the worker-peasant alliance that the general strike represents (2/n)

newsclick.in/all-india-stri…
Dec 17, 2019 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
Protesting in the cold rain outside the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University.

In strong solidarity with students of #jamia and many others protesting the #CAA2019 across the country.

Thread. Here's @sameeric reading out a statement of solidarity endorsed by 400+ students and academics at the @UniofOxford

Condemning the violence meted out to fellow students.And demanding that citizens be allowed their right to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act #CAA2019