Vaishnavi Jayakumar
@vjayakumar
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Co-founder https://t.co/ZqoE96Z3md, Member DRA @DisabilityIndia, free thinker, Horton fan
India
Joined June 2009
In Tamil Nadu, children who grow up behind bars with their imprisoned mothers are counted only until they turn six after that, the system simply stops caring. Once they cross the permitted age, they’re handed over to relatives, guardians, or state homes, but there’s no mechanism
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Being wrong about things is common enough, but being wrong in this aggressive way, where you would decry a globally standard feature that makes life easier for those with mobility challenges, and by extension to EVERYONE, whether or not they "do some exercise", is so strange.
The Metro isn't designed for heavy luggage. If your shoulders cannot handle it, you're over weight. And do some exercise. If you can't walk down, it's clearly a YOU problem.
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This Diwali, don’t let dark patterns dim your festive spirit. From hidden fees to fake urgency, these sneaky tricks are now illegal. IFF is pushing for transparency and stronger consumer protection. Stay alert and help keep the internet fair and free.
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#FOSS #TechPolicy #India #security #privacy This false idea that Open Source software compromises (rather than promotes) security and privacy is widely prevalent in India and in Nepal too.
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It's not rocket science for the aviation industry to use small ULDs to transport power wheelchairs along with ramped baggage carts as @WCTravelOrg has detailed : https://t.co/ww6Kxx06PB Securing inside hold as @IndiGo6E has done in pic doesn't take care of ground handling damage.
I was returning from Goa on 10th Oct 2025 after celebrating the @purplefestgoa — a festival that honours the freedom, independence & dignity of persons with disabilities. On my @IndiGo6E flight 6E 6264 (Goa–Delhi), my custom wheelchair — built specifically for my spinal cord
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What a trail of devastation.
#TamilNadu: He lost his seven-year-old daughter to sexual assault and murder. His marriage suffered in the aftermath. His wife accused him of “not doing enough” to avenge her death but have faith in the judiciary, and walked out with their son. The greatest travesty of justice
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The forced walk through the airport duty-free always feels like what a fully neoliberalised future would look like
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Not so fast @AmitShah! Switch to @Zoho products by Government / entities still requires accessibility compliance to IS 17802 as per law. This 2025 accessibility conformance report fails, & rumour has it that Zoho fusses to fix its myriad web #a11y errors. https://t.co/NYviBkseXE
Hello everyone, I have switched to Zoho Mail. Kindly note the change in my email address. My new email address is amitshah.bjp @ https://t.co/32C314L8Ct. For future correspondence via mail, kindly use this address. Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
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As always, this is now a fait accompli.
#SupremeCourt to hear today petitions challenging the Bihar SIR. On Sept 30, the EC published the final voters' list after the Special Intensive Revision. Yesterday, the Election Commission announced the #Bihar assembly election schedule. #ElectionCommissionOfIndia
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we are a country that builds coastal roads when they are completely unnecessary and does nothing to create infrastructure in terrains like this, and hopes unpaid nurses will be athletic enough to jump across boulders to reach their patients.
BIG NEWS 🚨 Himachal nurse Kamala Devi jumps a raging river to vaccinate a newborn 😳 NURSE: "I had to reach the baby; the mother couldn’t come due to weather. I was worried about the baby" ❤️
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I hope to see the 30 day notice period struck down in the near future. it is a ridiculous requirement that has continued to flourish because it makes it easier for the state to control the institution of marriage.
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In case you missed. Where ECI registers the same people to vote twice, even thrice with the same photos and details. And claims it is making a purified voter roll. 👇
Exclusive: Photo-Matched Duplicates abound on ECI’s draft voter list of Bihar. We detected 5.56 lakh suspect duplicates in 142 constituencies. Ground verification in two constituencies reveals hundreds of duplicate Voter IDs with matching photos. 1/4 https://t.co/KEfd12FL73
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Hospital occupancy rates in India are ~65% Yet reports show how patients are being turned away from hospitals because there are "NO BEDS AVAILABLE" That's got to be bad for business! But despite that, Apollo, Fortis, Medanta, etc have posted record profits! Here's how 1/10
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Goa was one of the earliest states in India to regulate construction on hill slopes, putting restrictions on changing slopes greater than 10% and completely banning any kind of development of slopes greater than 25%. Slopes are not to be messed with😰
God knows how much more… this monsoon is leaving behind a trail of destruction that will take years to recover. 310 lives already lost and still videos emerging, this one from Aani Kullu where a building collapsed . The next 48 hrs are crucial for North India. Prayers for all 🙏
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3. What we were doing, the ECI is required to do internally: Run computer programs on the voter lists to find patterns of fraud and errors. The ECI holds data in a format that is easy to process and analyse. But, when it made it public, it locked the data up.
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Set aside your political affiliations for one moment. Is this how a PM should speak on Independence Day? Who is he referring to as "infiltrators" who will target your women and steal your land?" Why does he not state this openly? If we hypothetically assume infiltrators are
Modi claims there’s a massive demographic change by infiltrators. Infiltrators are targeting women and stealing land. What was HM Amit Shah’s response? He clapped! Where else will you find someone weaponising their incompetence like this?
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Savarkar has come a long way: From being tried in court for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi To being on the same ‘Independence Day’ poster as him.
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Finally! It's only fitting that the inauguration of low floor electric buses in Chennai had a disabled representative from the #Go4LowFloor #Bus4All movement that brought MODERN buses to Tamil Nadu after 2 decades of legal battle, advocacy and campaigning. https://t.co/zHUbxjYYuu
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Been part of the Inauguration of Low Floor AC Buses along with Deputy CM @Udhaystalin @sivasankar1ss @prabhusean7 & travelled Cool for the first time in @MtcChennai Low Floor AC Bus #SathishOnWheels #Bus4All #MTC #ElectricBus #LowFloorBuses #MTCChennai #ChennaiBus #NammaChennai
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Wow @RubikaLiyaquat , why have you not taken down your misleading post yet? This is immoral, unethical, unacceptable behaviour, and by no stretch of imagination can this theatre be called journalism! 😡
Hello @RubikaLiyaquat, That's not how you search. Here is an Alt News fact check of Ambani's channel @News18India's 'Live fact-check'. Step 1. Go to this ECI website : https://t.co/vODgXS76sS Step 2. Select Uttar Pradesh. Step 3. Select District: Lucknow Step 4. Assembly
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