Pragynesh

#ExpressDelhi | Now, a dowry death in #Delhi: Woman dies minutes after telling brother, ‘I am being tortured’ @Pragynesh_2O reports: indianexpress.com/article/cities…

#Exclusive| Revoke passports of 10 criminals based abroad, Delhi Police tells Centre indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Police- gangster nexus : How a @PunjabPoliceInd DSP sent murabba, 2 caps as birthday gift to #Bishnoi in Gujarat jail . This, despite an ongoing probe into how Lwrnece gave interview from police custody!!! @iSidhuMooseWala tribuneindia.com/news/top-headl… @thetribunechd @jomalhotra

The real scandal is that India's diplomatic apparatus, given a perfectly ordinary provocation, chose to respond not with a single sharp sentence but with a civilisational lecture, and in doing so managed to look both thin-skinned and long-winded simultaneously.

This is 100% true: The media in India is in a miserable place, trapped between coercion, censorship and corruption.Yes, it is our job to question power. In the spirit of questioning, though, I think it's worth asking how robust and true these dog-show type rankings are 1/n

There was a time when Delhi gangsters would find it hard to get their hands on any kind of automatic weapon—let alone imported ones. It all changed after singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder. AK 47s, Austrian Glocks, Zigana pistols—now every weapon was available. How? Me and @AlokReporter report for @IndianExpress. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Hardlook | From AK-47s to Glocks, #Zigana, how Ansari brothers are feeding Delhi gangsters’ arsenal @Pragynesh_2O and I write ! indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Recommended: the FT’s architecture correspondent on the future of San Siro. Best sports piece I’ve read this weekend.

“I live in Anupam colony” the unkindest cut to Lutyens Jor Bagh in the snobbiest city in the world Delhi where the first thing people ask you is where “do live”

IPL complimentary pass scam: A top Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) official as the kingpin, a supervisor of the petrol pump next to the Arun Jaitley Stadium as distribution in-charge, and scores of youth stationed at the stadium gates. indianexpress.com/article/sports…

Supreme Court gives Flipkart 8 weeks to clear products with a branding it observed was ‘deceptively’ similar to that of Marc enterprises. @yashtiwari81 tells more about the trademark case. livemint.com/companies/news…

#ExpressDelhi | Before #NEET ‘paper leak’ storm, how another ‘NEET scam’ was busted in Delhi @Pragynesh_2O reports: indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Man who dared Maharastra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde as an independent during state elections, withdraws petition seeking to stop Tata Trust meetings. Why? @_yashtiwari_ explains. livemint.com/companies/news…

In a country where joint families were once the norm, rising disposable incomes mean seniors can have a specialised luxury primary caregiver. @devanshmittal_ and I report on the rise of senior living in Gurgaon, the Millennium City. Read here: indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Rivetting crime thriller bundled with some solid reporting by @Pragynesh_2O

How a ‘hotel date’ of a businessman’s son led #Bijnor police to extortion trap involving two local politicians, and two cops @Pragynesh_2O reports: indianexpress.com/article/india/…

In his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Vijay said that he grew up in poverty, and that he even knows what hunger is. It's bullshit because he was my classmate in the third standard in Loyola School. His father was a filmmaker who set up his son for a career in films. It is possible that like most filmmakers his father may have had periods of financial strife but that's not the same as Tamil-grade poverty. A lot of affluent boys confuse being broke with poverty. Two very different things.

My pal @shashwat_rhb gives his take on the launch of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s pair of endearingly funny books. This article, specially the first couple of paras, paint what GPTs still can’t do: capture how humorous the most serious men on the most serious positions can be when given a stage, a mike, and an audience where no one is taking offence. aninews.in/news/national/…

An excellent piece by @TheAtlantic on funding of humanities research in the United States. It would be curious to identify the major players in India, their political/ideological choices, and whether these choices affect their funding decisions. theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

A network of NGO accounts and scammers squabbling over commissions: What the Delhi Police stated about one of the biggest ‘digital arrest’ scams in the capital in their chargesheet. My report for @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/cities…