Art Journalist. Co-author of the photobook 'I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you '
Joined August 2014
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A different kind of Lunch with the @FT: a tour of Jharkhand and a ₹500 meal w/Jean Drèze.
Detained during the CJP protests, the economist had plenty to say about India’s progress and those left behind. “There was a readiness for some kind of eruption” ft.com/content/002074da-f937…
This bit from Belonging about a fight between Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi over their respective dogs (post the Emergency elections rout when everyone was on edge) is very Amores Perros like
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Diwali was on Sunday. Today is Wednesday. Mumbai’s AQI is touching 200. And some daft people are still bursting crackers on the road. What can any Government do to save us if we act THIS stupid?
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Exclusive. ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections: On 51 seats of Maharashtra, Haryana and J&K, votes counted differed from votes cast. ECI rules say such mismatch should trigger probe into possible rigging.
@TweetSumedha & @VenkateshNSS report
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It’s refreshing to see followers of the Hindutva cult finally pick up a book instead of relying on WhatsApp forwards.
Kudos to @SoniaGandhi for getting them to read.
Reading is a good habit.
Bought it on Blinkit. Love the detailed texture and intimate voice of the book. In passing SG evokes the music scene of 60s London when The Beatles and Rolling Stones were a rage. Rajiv & she spent hours in record stores listening to songs like Day-O, Click Song and Stand By me
Five copies in two hours at Akshara Books in Jubilee Hills. Seven picked up from Off The Shelf in Gachibowli soon after the store received its stock. And 150 orders in just one hour for India Book Distributors. Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', hit the ground running in Hyderabad on Tuesday, with bookshops reporting brisk interest on the day of its launch. The memoir has also made it to Amazon’s bestseller list in the Biographies & Autobiographies category.
✍️ @serish
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Please be quiet! Hindus of Delhi are fighting an existential battle to save their religion, which has been perpetually in danger since 2014. A mahayagna like this needs aahuti. Please stop being so selfish about your health and join this noble effort to make India vishwaguru.
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Was a time when only violence depicted sympathetically on screen was against the moneylender or landlord (Mother India/Ganga Jamuna) fr ownership of land/rights. Now Bollywood in its neoliberal-Hindutva phase does so only for staking ownership over women's body or communal honour
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Amanda Seyfried says her life right now is “interesting” and “everything that’s happening is meant to happen” at the #AcademyMuseumGala
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यौन उत्पीड़न, कपड़े खींचना और निजी अंगों पर हमला - लोकतंत्र के लिए आवाज़ उठाने वाली छात्राओं और महिलाओं के साथ दिल्ली पुलिस की बर्बरता शर्मनाक हदें पार कर रही है।
यह सब आवाज़ों को दबाने की उस साजिश का हिस्सा है, जिसमें इतना डरा दो, इतना अपमानित करो कि कोई दोबारा सवाल उठाने की हिम्मत ही न करे।
मोदी-शाह जानते हैं कि जिस दिन सत्ता हाथ से गई, उस दिन उनकी मनमानी की कहानी खत्म। उनका यही डर पुलिस तक पहुँचता है और हिंसा बनकर देश के युवाओं और महिलाओं पर टूट रहा है।
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A cartoon by Avi Steinberg.
See more toons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xa…
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This past weekend, thousands of anti-government protesters were arrested in New Delhi. A movement that began several months ago, and was initially focussed on demands to reform India’s education system, has now centered itself around the government’s decision to remove more than 100 million people from the country’s voter rolls. “By sheer numbers, this is one of the largest-ever exercises of disenfranchisement in the history of the world,” Yogendra Yadav, an activist and political scientist says. Read Isaac Chotiner’s full conversation with Yadav about the widespread unrest in Narendra Modi’s India and the aggressive action taken by a panic-stricken regime that knows it is losing popularity: newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/i…
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Wrong day to drag Democracy in a sentence.
Look at the reactions
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VIDEO | Delhi: "India is the mother of democracy," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
(Source: PM Modi's YT)
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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Electric scenes near the Supreme Court where Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Neha Bora, Supriya Sule & several opposition leaders atop a bus waving to thousands of people. #GyaneshMustResign #Delhi #protest #SupremeCourt #Opposition @neha_aisa #photojournalism
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