I may be repeating myself, but this is what I will do again & again
We are a secular nation & that is how we should remain
It is high time we make peace with Pakistan. They are open to the idea at the highest level of Pak Army.
We need to live as good friends for prosperity of…

I keep thinking of Shovon Chowdhury's The Competent Authority. The one indispensable book to understand India. Fittingly, it's darkest satire.

This reminds me of that line by Goundamani from the Villadhi Villain film.
Goundamani asks a minister, why are party offices so big even as the houses of the people are so small.

That Indian voters are feeling the heat (no pun intended) is evident in the lower election turnouts. If confirmed, 2024 will mark the 7th consecutive year of #heat . Managing heat-related risks is perhaps India's biggest economic challenge Founding Fuel IG

''Above all, authority can, indeed must, be analyzed.''

''Orientalism'', by Edward Said

Andy Mukherjee m rajshekhar I have always wondered why no journalist ever picked up the story of the new massive offices being constructed by the ruling party. I have seen their swanky offices even in small towns.

Hope this story by Rajshekar leads to more deep dibing into this subject.

ECs with a backbone: the legacy of JM Lyngdoh.

(And this is the recent past — the speed at which we have forgotten what our institutions used to be!)

thewire.in/politics/elect…

Gurgaon has one swanky office right in Dlf area. And am sure there are many other…

Out today, the tale of a striking paradox. 'Even as Indians struggle, the economics of the BJP has seen a dramatic improvement.' The party is, for one, building new offices + outspending rivals in the polls. How deep are its pockets, ask The Wire and I. thewire.in/politics/the-r…

If you were an editor in any Indian newsrooms in 2013-14, you should be ashamed. The Gujarat Model should have been tested well before 2013 -- when the BJP was promising to spread that across India. Lies need to be nipped in time, not brainlessly regurgitated.

What smug fog do people live in? How is this a gotcha?

They’re covering their faces bc today, in 2024, facial rec systems exist that can easily ID them, IDs that are then used by coordinated actors (trustees funding moving billboards, etc) to doxx/violently intimidate them.

You mean tribals the government hasn’t declared as illegal immigrants?

Modi isn’t promising major economic reforms in the #indiaelections

🎥 That suits investors just fine, says Andy Mukherjee trib.al/ezn04kS

this is exactly what Prem Panicker spoke about in his piece yesterday. if you haven't read it yet, here:
rediff.com/news/column/in…

So eager to read a book on China's high-speed rail expansion. Is there one, folks?

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors.

#nuclear #SMR #climate

blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/fi…

The most authentic student protest in the country right now... Also, what's up with AajTak?

Who spread unblurred videos of women? SIT probe on Prajwal Revanna must find. Do read Sukanya Shaji (she/her)'s piece
thenewsminute.com/karnataka/who-…

Have you read this pretty little travelogue through democratic palsy yet?