Chiranjeevi Kulkarni

What Rumi told reporters :) twitter.com/Rumi_Quote/sta…

Israeli forces reportedly tortured a 1-year-old boy in Gaza to pressure his father into making confessions at a military checkpoint. The child was released after nearly 10 hours, but the father remains in Israeli custody.

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A new UN report confirms the past decade was the hottest on record, warning that rising temperatures driven by fossil fuels demand urgent climate action.

"The war will not restore equilibrium. It will reorder the region both violently and unpredictably... Wars of choice rarely confine themselves to their intended targets. They consume not only the combatants but the assumptions that animate them." lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/marc…

Well said, William Dalrymple.

Imperial war. Imperialist terror. Deccan Herald and The Hindu editorials today. Mincing no words. Taking a strong stand against the Us-Israel strikes on Iran. Calling it what it is. Must read.

In case you thought the spinach this morning tasted a little off ... when something like this happens, some people should be reassigned or removed from their jobs. Every failure of regulation or governance is treated as a mere administrative matter, with no penalty to anyone in such roles. That impunity signals loudly that officials can be lax in their jobs.

This article by @cksaysso in @DeccanHerald clearly shows that vegetables we consume daily are coming from Kolar & Chikkaballapur with dangerous contamination levels. Are we eating cancer-causing veggies? What is KSPCB Chairman @pmnarendraswamy doing about this? Why no strict action? People’s health cannot be ignored.

Today, of course Gaza is under assault, and the people of Gaza are clinging on, threatened with both starvation and expulsion. This is a part of the world that dominates our front pages and yet about which we learn remarkably little at school and college: the history of Gaza rarely makes it onto the curriculums of any country, we are not taught its story in movies or even in TV documentaries. Yet it is something we obviously badly need to know to understand current events.

3 dead, over 100 hospitalised after drinking 'contaminated water' in Indore Heartbreaking that this is the case in the cleanest city in the country deccanherald.com/india/madhya-p…

WATCH THIS 🚨 The black layer on these plant leaves are pollutants from Iron & Steel plant of Aloke Steels Industries Pvt Ltd (ASIPL). Directors of ASIPL - Abhishek Rungta, Kamendra Mishra

A sobering graph for the end of the year. Source: unep.org/resources/glob…

Roberto Bolano, '2666'

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

Palestine is also one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself. On the temple of Medinet Habu near Thebes there is inscribed in hieroglyphs the name of the people who had invaded from the North who the Egyptians knew as the ‘Peleset’. The inscription dates from the time of Pharaoh Ramses III, and was carved in 1186 BC. The cuneiform inscriptions of the Assyrians mention the ‘Palashtu’ who lived on the southeastern Mediterranean coast from about 800BCE. The Book of Genesis in 21:34 says clearly that after migrating from the city of Ur, that the Patriarch Abraham lived “in the land of the Philistines.” Herodotus, the Father of History, describes the same area as “Syria Palestina” (Παλαιστίνη) around 480BCE.

'Closing Time' Joseph Heller

The ongoing Arctic heat anomaly is forecast to peak around November 20th. I will be watching to see if Arctic sea-ice hits a new daily record low (since records began in 1979). Meanshile, the Climate 8-ball is building a bunker in New Zealand. karstenhaustein.com/climate

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! October 25th, 2025 was the hottest on record for the date since records began in 1940, making it likely the hottest October 25th in the last 120,000 years. More records are forecast to be set over the next week. Stay tuned!

1. Modi govt handpicks a trader accused of 1,000 cr bank fraud, criminal conspiracy, forgery, export of illegal goods to promote rice exports. Puts him on a critical gov't fund. The man has his company forced into insolvency. His son runs a Singapore company to ship rice.