Congratulations and wishing you and the team the very best @AntoJoseph sir!
A new beginning!
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Thank you, @tnrags sir! 🙂
Heart is full - as a friend, admirer, and as someone who shares his belief in the primacy of beat reporting in journalism.🫡for winning this while covering crime, a taxing beat, in perhaps the most perceptive and inquisitive way.🍻da, to joyful pursuit of excellence, like Raaja!
Happy to have won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism #RNGaward for my story tracing the journey of #TamilNadu and India Footballer, Indumathi of Coach Mariappan's Tsunami batch.
Thanks to my family, friends and colleagues. Grateful for all the blessings.View quoted post on X
Late Post: I'm really thankful to @AmeerudheenTa and his team for pushing me (& @SAPRAVEENA1) to do this video interaction - a first for me - and editing the 2-hr long discussion into shorter, thematically organized and impactful videos, illuminating the flaws in #SIR process.
Earlier this year, reporters from @NewIndianXpress in Tamil Nadu took great pains to analyse the reasons behind the deletion of 97.4 lakh voters from the draft electoral rolls published by the @ECISVEEP after the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision.View quoted post on X
Thank you, @ptrmadurai sir. Hoping against hope that it is still possible to course correct.
For ECI, while “bias is the cardinal sin, its lack of competence is the original sin.”
I am glad to see The @NewIndianXpress taking the Special Intensive Revision #SIR seriously and publishing a well-analysed series of articles on the issue. In its 23 January 2026 article, a key red flag is highlighted: the elector–population ratio, a mandatory health check under Election Commission guidelines, which appears to have been inadequately applied.
The draft rolls indicate that nearly 10% of eligible voters may be missing across the State, while in Chennai up to one-third of eligible voters could have been left out. Such large-scale deletions cannot be credibly explained by migration, particularly in a State where urban centres continue to attract working populations.
As I have observed while closely monitoring the exercise, it is beyond reason to expect a revision of this scale to be carried out accurately by thousands of employees (BLOs) with limited training under severe time pressure. As deadlines approached and targets mounted, many were forced into bulk marking voters as “shifted”.View quoted post on X
