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@ShekharGupta You have it backwards. The Muslim community has avoided the BJP and forced it to find every way of existing without it. If there was a power base that was workable, a political party would run after it.

Muslim voters no longer matter to BJP. Only a new Hindu-led coalition can challenge the Modi-Shah BJP… #NationalInterest Illustration by Shruti Naithani @Shruu_art theprint.in/national-inter…

@PramilaJayapal You want to throttle the developers so they don’t build any more? Care to explain the logic behind that?

Seattle has one of the worst housing crises in the country. I see it every time I’m home in my district. People working full-time jobs who can’t afford rent. Teachers, nurses, and transit workers who can’t live in the city they serve. Families on housing assistance waiting lists that have been frozen for years. This is a policy failure, not an inevitability. We built this crisis by choosing developers over people. We can choose differently. Housing is a human right. We fight for it like one.

Asking for sacrifice from the public is justified if every policy and reform option is being exerted along with it or prior to it. This one is necessary but doesn’t feel right because everything else is in status quo @narendramodi

@MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC Say you’re a communist without saying you’re a communist.

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

@airindia you guys are a hot mess. Hard landing, one hour from touchdown to terminal, flight delayed by almost two hours overall. Pathetic show.

C.S. Lewis’ incredible observation on friendship

Brian Chesky shares why the saddest day of his life happened the day after Airbnb went public at $100B: "We go public, we have a hundred billion dollar valuation. It's one of the best days of my life. The next day, I go on a Zoom meeting, and it was like it never happened." "It became like the saddest day of my life. Because I realized, I got all this adulation, and I don't feel any different." "Adulation is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. You keep filling it in, thinking it's love, except it just keeps coming out the bottom." "That made me reevaluate what I'm doing this for. I want to do things for pure intrinsic reasons. Do the work like you used to do, like when you were a kid. It was light. Just make stuff. Make it for yourself." "So many entrepreneurs focus on what they want to be. "I want to be a giant tech founder. I want to run a billion-dollar company." Instead of focusing on, "What do I want to make." There's no way to fail if you're making what you love."

@shaunrein It seems to be inviting the credentials rather than inviting the analyst?

Hong Kong is dead! Well, that's what Stephen Roach, ex-Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia & Yale professor declared. Since then, HK became the world's largest IPO market in 2025 & so far in 2026 HK is far from dead. There are few places anywhere in the world that is so efficient for dealmakers and white collar workers to make money Last week I was in HK to sit on a panel. In one day I had dinner with the billionaire founder of one of the world's largest private equity firms, chatted and took photos with the billionaire chairman of one of the world's largest real estate developers, talked with the anchor of a top tv show, lunched with the founder of a digital marketing company, sat for an interview with a journalist from a leading publication, had breakfast with the celebrity founder of a lifestyle company. And that doesn't include the coffees and short chats I had with dozens of hedge fund, bankers at a cocktail party headlined by the former PM of a medium sized country Only NY might be able to rival the efficiency but HK has far less taxes. Far far less HK isn't dead. It's electric. Here's me eating in Kowloon. Many mandarin speakers sitting at tables near me. You can see the positive influence mainlanders are having on HK Instead of being the conduit for western businesses trying to break into the mainland, HK has become the conduit for mainland companies trying to break into overseas markets Let's be clear, HK's prosperity has always been linked to China's rise, not the "positive" effects of British colonialism and Chris Patten & NYT's Nick Kristof like to rewrite history about. Now, how did Roach get HK (and China) so wrong? It's largely due to 2 reasons that course through the China Watcher crowd Roach visits the mainland & HK a few times a year & talks to his old friends & acquaintances. You can't understand a country by fly ins. And Roach, unlike any good analyst, talks to the same circle who are negative on China, mostly affluent people who lost opportunities because of the CPC's laudable goal of building up the middle class by reigning in the excesses of the corrupt wealthy class. You need to travel all around China to get a true pulse. This week I'm crisscrossing Henan, one of the hottest economies in China. Roach also falls victim to ideological bigotry - he like many other China Watchers cheerlead for China's system when they thought it was adopting capitalism and western style democracy... Essentially they thought China would be more like the west. But China decided to go its own way by blending capitalism with Communism and has been very successful at that. But for Roach, who has actually spent very little time in mainland, he never quite got China. For him, China failed because it has reformed to try to support the low and middle class, not favor the wealthy like in the US and their web of donors and patrons. But America's system is failing the low & middle class while benefitting the Uber rich like Jeff Bezos, Ken Griffin Now Roach spends his waning days trying to retain relevance by attacking China's government for not inviting him to events anymore. Why invite a 3rd class analyst?

@dhume The question I have is how the cabinet would have been different with Arun Jaitley and Manohar Parrikar still in it?

One of the most intriguing questions of 21st century Indian politics: Would Narendra Modi have become prime minister if Pramod Mahajan’s brother hadn’t murdered him in 2006?

@abhishekaitc Why, what will you try to do the those who contest from there?

Ten lifetimes won't be enough for your Bangla Birodhi Gujarati gang and their stooge Gyanesh Kumar to put even a dent in my DIAMOND HARBOUR MODEL. Bring everything you have got. I challenge the entire Union of India- Come to Falta. Send your strongest, send one of the godfathers from Delhi. If you have got the nerve, contest in Falta.

@UnderCoercion Why is it so difficult for you to respect another person’s faith when he is clearly respecting yours?

Always pretend to be like you

Vivek: Jesus is A son of god but Jesus is not THE son of god. Jesus is A way to heaven but not THE way to heaven.

why has Christianity been alive for 2,000 years without a CEO... while most startups die in 18 months? this question led to this article 👇

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter has passed. "If you want immortality, do something meaningful with your life." — J.C. Venter (1946-2026) So many memories... I served on the board of his Synthetic Genomics for over a decade and invested in four of his companies. He was indefatigable and pitched me on his latest new startup just last month. He was the first to sequence the human genome — his own; he gave me a hardback book of his Y chromosome sequence, the one with the SRY gene that made him male. He made the first synthetic life form, a living organism with a near-minimal genome fabricated by chemical synthesis. President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Science. Time and time again, he pushed the bounds of what people thought possible, often engaging the cutting edge of Moore’s Law and the Carlson Curve of plummeting gene sequencing and synthesis costs. He even made a desktop DNA printer. And he had a keen sense of humor and joie de vivre throughout. Here are some of those moments from 23 years of photoblog posts on him: flickr.com/search/?user_i… And more in the SynBioBeta Obit: synbiobeta.com/read/a-synthet…

It’s time to find compassion for boys and men. A shift in public perspective is overdue, and progress can accelerate if women—particularly those with liberal values—champion this cause, because the future isn’t female: The future is everyone. New from me for the @latimes 🙌 latimes.com/opinion/story/…

@ThePrintIndia We need the top people building the country, not just administering it.

1/5: When the UPSC results come out each year, the All India Rank 1 immediately becomes a national hero in India. But what happens next? ThePrint tracked the careers of 20 UPSC toppers, from 2003 to 2022, to capture what happened after the fanfare subsided.

@desaisantosh The problem needs to affect those willing to experiment and do something about it?

Why did it take so long to invent the walker for the elderly? To put wheels on suitcases? To invent the menstrual pad for a problem that affected half the population in the world? Why necessity is not always the mother of invention. Today in the TOI

@jack The blockchain is trust, but this 🧐

bitcoin is money

your elaborate productivity hacks don’t stand a chance against the person having fun

@Bedil_Khushabi @Avnk90 That’s 400m people above. Not such a small number 🙃

@Avnk90 Pretty dumb take, a shameful defense of a small class is parasites sucking the blood out of a billion people below them

You have to thank Aatish Taseer for this quote. It describes a great deal of what we’ve been seeing.