As the #wealthredistribution debate rages, replugging my TOI Plus column on the welfarist utopia of the Congress written a couple of weeks ago.

Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) RIP | “Can the psychological make sense of the cultural in all human experience? The only way to understand Kakar’s methodology is to recognise the fact that he has a measure of the modern as well as of the traditional.” thehindu.com/society/sudhir…

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

#ElectionsWithNDTV | Modi factor vs Congress guarantees - Who has the edge in Karnataka?

On the panel with Vasudha Venugopal: मॅथ्यू अँटनी|Mathew Antony|മാത്യു ആന്റണി, Dr. Lakshmi Ashwin Gowda 🇮🇳(Modi Ka Parivar) and Sugata Srinivasaraju

#LokSabhaElections2024

Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone newyorker.com/news/the-new-y…

Susan Sontag and John Berger in conversation, 1983

Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Working on the biography of Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur has been like piecing together a musical jigsaw puzzle.
Delighted to share the treasures I am finding along the way with a wider community of connoisseurs.
More to come... 👍

Finally, NewYork catches up with the fan culture of MGR, JJ and MK’s #TamilNadu >> US man sets self on fire before Trump trial. ndtv.com/world-news/who…

Who Will Win 2024? I Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta in conversation with barkha dutt. youtu.be/pCZ4jJuoXXU?si…

A clip of my 10-min-long conversation, yesterday, with #LauraTchilinguirian of Radio Australia — ABC News Radio. It was on the Indian elections. **It is a 7 phase poll, by slip of tongue I say 6. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1mc_bzb…

A clip of my 10-min-long conversation, yesterday, with #LauraTchilinguirian of Radio Australia — ABC News Radio. It was on the Indian elections. **It is a 7 phase poll, by slip of tongue I say 6. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1mc_bzb…

'Poor guy' says @mkumaramangalam about #Annamalai -'too much pressure on his shoulders'- as we debate the prospects for Modi's Mission South on the ground in Tamil Nadu with Srikanth Karunesh (Modi ji’s Family) @Sugataraju. Must watch full show #DhabasOfDemocracy here youtube.com/watch?v=z7htZo…

Enjoyed this conversation on #TamilNadu with Vasudha Venugopal

Enjoyed this conversation on #TamilNadu with Vasudha Venugopal

As Tamil Nadu gets ready to vote, I speak to Sugata Srinivasaraju on the BJP's TN push. He says political Dravidianism is exclusive to Tamil Nadu and doesn't extend to other south Indian states.

He talks about PM's repeated reference to the antiquity of Tamil. He says BJP's cultural,

‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’: 10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…