“It is in literature that I find everything that is missing in our policies – inspiration, intuition, and courage to imagine a new world.” – @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social #TBSky

What an amazing panel with TB book authors @theunion.org conference! Thank you 🙏🏽 @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social Handaa Enkh-Amgalan & @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social

Feed: "Nieman Reports" By: Vidya Krishnan on Saturday, November 1, 2025

India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press A spate of new legislation is aimed at curbing free expression By Vidya Krishnan niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

"Few expected [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] to stand up to a foreign delegation on press issues when there’s been little accountability at home," Krishnan writes. Modi has not held a press conference with open availability during his 12 years in power. niemanreports.org/india-taliba...

India hosts the Taliban, but not female reporters. The initial exclusion drew widespread condemnation, and a rare display of solidarity among India’s divided press corps, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social. niemanreports.org/india-taliba...

The Indian state makes wars against Dalit scholars in devious ways. My latest about caste apartheid in Indian universities www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/h...

⚠️ New legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social. "Official narratives are upheld by marginalizing rival voices by limiting reach, smear campaigns, and lazy innuendo,” said veteran reporter M. Rajshekhar. niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

The Indian state makes wars against Dalit scholars in devious ways. My latest about caste apartheid in Indian universities www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/h...

From July: The aid that global health has depended on so much and for so long was never purely humanitarian. It was always strategic: it came with strings attached. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:

100% tariff on branded meds made in India. A hundred percent! This is going to impact not just domestic generic manufacturers but global health orgs that rely on Indian made meds. Just what global health needed rn. thewire.in/trade/trump-...

For Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel, Meeran... "Modi’s power over #India has a v. insecure foundation if it rests on #UmarKhalid being kept in prison indefinitely. He'll be out one day. That day may not save our democracy. But it'll make a huge improvement." www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

From July: Aid defined global health assistance, and it supported structures of dependency rather than promoting self-sufficiency. It meant funding was available for programmes such as population control but not for overall investment in health systems. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:

From July: "It's easy to blame #DonaldTrump 's aid cuts for the ongoing collapse of the global health order. But the truth is that his executive orders have simply pushed ineffective and failed structures of global health off the proverbial cliff," @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes

'White Lilies left me wondering how our cities can be the reason for our griefs, while grieving with us.' We loved this review of @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social 's White Lilies from across the border! White Lilies is now in bookstores and online. www.thedailystar.net/books-litera...

Delighted that 4 amazing authors will join Union TB conference this year! Thrilled to be moderating the panel with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @mariasmilios.bsky.social, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social Read about their TB books 👇🏽 communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...

This toolkit seems even more relevant today Eye on Global Health developed this Decolonisation Toolkit, which aims be a visual document that encourages global professionals to rethink their individual and collective engagement in achieving a decolonised world eyeonglobalhealth.com/decolonising...

TB is the # 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan bring fresh advocacy communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...

In this interview Stuart Pivar (Epstein's bestie) compares his perversion to "having Tuberculosis". It is so messed up coz TB patients are stigmatized for having a persistent cough. Besides that, totally the same thing as industrial-scale pedophilia. Sure. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

I always loved this 2019 interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends where he complains people are being very unfair to his friend Jeffrey because he had a disease called being a huge pervert not unlike tuberculosis. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Absolutely incredible conversation with @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social just happened on the @tbfighters.org YouTube channel. I highly recommend checking out the recording! www.youtube.com/live/6JIINQi...

My grandfather would’ve been proud—he loved Reader’s Digest. Now I’m in it! I think his old collection still sits on my uncle’s shelf. Thank you, ‪@readersdigest.bsky.social‬ for your interest.

With the recent cuts in Western aid, global health is collapsing. The question is: How could decades of what the powers of global health insisted on calling “sustainable” progress be so swiftly undone? @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:

The Indian government pressured Dr. Udwadia to retract his paper, attempting to sweep his warning of severe antibiotic resistance under the rug. India's TB burden is high, yet in Ch 12 of #PhantomPlague, we learn how the government denied the growing TB problem. #TBReaders

Trump’s aid cuts have broken global health – but we can fight back @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/politics/glo...

Aid defined global health assistance, and it supported structures of dependency rather than promoting self-sufficiency. It meant funding was available for programmes such as population control but not for overall investment in health systems. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:

US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable death from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back. @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social writes:

"As Trump’s America withdraws into its vast privilege, the only consolation is that pretences of global solidarity have been permanently shattered." Read @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social on rebuilding global health @himalmag.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/politics/glo...

"As easy as it is to blame Trump for everything, truth is .. his executive orders have simply pushed ineffective & failed structures of global health off the proverbial cliff." My latest for @himalmag.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/politics/glo...

Exactly like the Third Reich, Israel is meticulous in documenting its own crimes. FYI, the Allies used every bit of it as evidence at Nuremberg.

About sums it up. #booksky #amwriting #authorlife #buttinchairhandsonkeyboard

🎙️"Throughout the pandemic, the biggest co-morbidity an Indian citizen had to deal with was Modi government." @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social‬ on State of Southasia #Covid19 #India

Phew. ✍🏾📝📖📚 Manuscript complete. I'm exhausted but also excited to share this urgent, timely project centering the post colonial history of journalism. ✊🏾 #Nonfiction

Monsoon mode: Window seat. Big, fat book. Vanish.

I spoke to @himalmag.bsky.social about those dark pandemic years in which Modi admin lied & lied & lied. Today, they admit to 8x deaths. Unrepentant. Brazen. No apologies. As the poet Amir Aziz said, Sab Yaad Rakh Jayega. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdm6...

🎙️ As #India reveals massive undercounting of coronavirus deaths, @VidyaKrishnan reminds us of the pandemic’s horrors and the Modi government’s terrible decisions that cost millions of lives #Covid19 @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social‬ #Covid19 #India

Any post-colonial health expert will tell you that they've been screaming for decades abt "decolonizing" global health order, its policies, funding, research. This pettiness surprises no one in the Global South. This was entirely expected & it has come to pass. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/h...

Fuck New York Times with a cactus made of metastatic cancer. Palestine will be free.

I’m now a coaching institute question in India. If you haven't prepared for UPSC, you’ll never understand the level of emotional damage I'm causing out there....

@AJEnglish: Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism — #AJOpinion by @VidyaKrishnan. 🔗: https://t.co/cJPxTQAeIy https://t.co/5rFFRYbtxu

Under BJP, only the rapiest of rapey men are safe. This is disgusting & a govt capable of being embarrassed would be ... lekin humare yahan toh Saheb hi itne bade creep hain.

🎙️ India’s government released data showing 3.7 million excess deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020 & 2021. Coming up on State of Southasia, the health journalist @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social recounts the mismanagement by the Modi government that led to India’s devastating second wave.

Modi admin must answer for this under-counting. In the fog of war, they slipped in that 7x people died from #COVID19 than previously admitted by GoI. That's 21.5L excess deaths. Not 3.3L. Who is responsible? Where are the apologies? I spoke to @himalmag.bsky.social about that nightmare year

🎙️ India’s government released data showing 3.7 million excess deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020 & 2021. Coming up on State of Southasia, the health journalist @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social recounts the mismanagement by the Modi government that led to India’s devastating second wave.

Monsters. None of this will be forgotten.

Yest, a court in India dismissed the case against @himalmag.bsky.social for reporting on Reliance's poaching of animals for their pvt zoo 👇🏾 Op part of the statement is how the investigation is gaining traction outside India as Indian outlets take down the reports🤷🏾‍♀️ www.himalmag.com/editorial/ed...

I don't think the arrow was necessary. Thank you for sharing the pic. It was a beautiful evening. If you haven't not read John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis, you need to correct that NOW.