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Aug 6, 2021 16 tweets 14 min read
Report 1 of Season 6!
We kickstart the season with a multimedia report about Rohini Londhe, a technical officer in charge of the hydra facility at @ari_pune, who did something super gutsy to save her hydra during the nationwide lockdown
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-written by @Ar_SH Friday = new article alert!
This report is about Shilpa Dubal (@ships0304), a senior observer at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope without whom data that astronomers are interested in could not be smoothly collected 🔭
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- written by @dbdttpl
Jan 30, 2021 27 tweets 5 min read
A thread on the life of Rohith Vemula, Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad, who was born this day in 1989. Follow the thread to know more about this beacon of hope for all of us who dare to imagine and hope for an anti-caste future. Rohith was born to Radhika Vemula in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Radhika is a Dalit woman who herself faced casteist treatment from her adoptive family. Rohith's experiences of he and his mother being treated differently due to their Dalit identities informed his later politics.
Jan 3, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
A thread on Savitribai Phule, a pioneering icon of anti-caste feminism, education and liberation, to commemorate her birth on this day, in 1831. Follow this thread as we remember her contribution to our anti-caste feminist politics. Artwork by illustrator @siddheshgautam Image Often regarded as the mother of Indian feminism, Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831, at Naigaon, Maharashtra. She was married to her husband, Jyotiba Phule, at the age of 9. The couple together went on to transform the society by being the beacon of education and reform.