It’s no coincidence that states with the most militant Hindutva groups happen to be electoral strongholds of BJP. Telangana is a strange exception, where the influence of Hindutva activism on public life exceeds BJP’s power in elected bodies. @YunusLasania reports #MustRead🧵 Before you read @YunusLasania’s piece on how the #cowvigilantism menace in Telangana has risen under BRS rule, please consider supporting The News Minute by becoming a TNM Member.

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The Committee of Parliament on Official Languages recommended that the medium of instruction in all technical, non-technical educational institutions including central universities should mandatorily be #Hindi & local languages🧵👇 In addition, the committee also recommended that compulsory English language question papers in recruitment examinations be removed.
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As Rahul Gandhi’s #BharatJodoYatra passes through its first BJP-governed state, the focus has been on communal hate. The Congress leader had a series of meetings with artists, writers and activists who have been fighting hate, writes @PoojaPrasanna4. Slain journalist #GauriLankesh’s sister Kavitha and mother Indira Lankesh met Rahul Gandhi and walked with him for a few minutes. Kavitha told TNM that Rahul shared his experience of losing a family member to hate and violence.

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.

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.
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#ManiRatnam’s #PonniyinSelvan1 respects its source material – a gentle rendering of love, war, conspiracy and female guile, writes @sowmya_rajen.
#PS1 #PS1Review #PonniyinSelvanReview
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#ManiRatnam talks about all things
#PonniyinSelvan in this #TNMExclusive with @Ahmedshabbir20 & @priyankathiru👇

#Replug | #TNMexclusive interviews with #PS1 cast🧵

In this interview with @priyankathiru, @rparthiepan speaks about his role in #PonniyinSelvan1, working with #ManiRatnam and more.

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