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Those who believe that only TV news media has lost credibility, need only see the front pages of some of our leading national newspapers today - IE, HT, TOI.

What did Former Prime Minister Dr .Manmohan Singh exactly say about weaker sections and their rights on national resources:
'I believe our collective priorities are clear: agriculture, irrigation and water resources, health, education, critical investment in rural

My book, The New Experts, is now available for pre-order in paperback and hardcover from all the big booksellers. In it, I analyse the power of intellectuals and experts in depoliticising policy discourse while serving a deeply ideological political project. (1/5)

Very happy that newslaundry is partnering with Sreenivasan Jain for the elections.

Can't help myself - gotta be said that Al Jazeera English kicked off election season with Sreenivasan and his four part series, The India Report.

Full playlist here:
youtube.com/watch?v=DktoKY…

“The eruption of the Gaza war has exposed the unreliability of the US to a variety of actors in the region. The Biden admin’s bias towards Israel—even as an escalation of the conflict poses a genuine threat—has significantly damaged the credibility of the US as a mediator.”

This ad from the BJP is…quite absurd

• It features Pepe the Frog - a cartoon used by the extreme right in the USA

• There are flash cuts of Mughals and BJP leaders with no coherence

• The quality is worse than the rest of BJP official output that tends to be quite slick

My god this story is something else.

Oh, so Israel's war cabinet is working from a ...tunnel system....underneath....important buildings....

Looks like it

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

Authorities in Germany are holding the British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah and refusing him entry into the country.

Abu Sittah was due to speak at a Palestinian conference in Berlin.

An intriguing piece of work by Newsweek.

They interview one of the most powerful men on the planet and the result reads like a piece of party PR.

Forget the idea of challenge or debate…this isn’t even very engaging.

A fabulous opportunity squandered. newsweek.com/2024/04/19/exc…

Did the Modi government transform India into a global powerhouse?

In the final episode of The India Report on Al Jazeera English, I examine the big claims of India's ruling party, as the country heads to elections.

Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=r2M4l0…

6 observations:
1. Israel opening Erez and Ashdod for humanitarian aid into Gaza is unequivocally good news.
2. The decision to do this contradicts Israel's repeated claims that there have been no restrictions on aid.
3. Their closure until now was one part of a war crime. 1/2

January, February, March, and now April. We’re supposed to believe that Biden has been angry for *months* about Israel’s actions in Gaza, all while sending it more weapons and money to enable it. It’s insulting that they think people are this stupid.

Our army is holding Palestinian hostages & captives from Gaza with their hands & legs tied & face covered for weeks on end. A doctor who served in that concentration camp testified: leg amputations as a result of wounds caused by those conditions are routine

israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years

If you are a certain Saudi prince weighing whether or not to normalize relations with Israel, the UAE's increasingly frustrating experience over the past six months is becoming an ever-bigger cautionary tale axios.com/2024/04/02/uae…