Rahul

This year, we are celebrating the start of Nowruz with a free Persian intensive (link in bio).

I agree. If you say bail is the rule, then most orders will look the same. This looks like a hit job by the newspaper. Justice Bhatia may have uniformly given bail in other types of matters as well. This kind of irresponsible reporting, is actually anti-citizen and anti-liberty.

A local court has imposed a fine of ₹3.5 lakh on Two Indians for spitting paan in London London Mayor spends €30,000 in a day cleaning gutkha stains on streets😭

"One thing you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

People don’t fully realize how bad things are going to get for everyone. Israel and the U.S. (which denies involvement) struck Iran’s South Pars gas field. In response, Iran targeted Qatar’s North Field. These are two halves of the same reservoir the largest natural gas field on the planet. This single shared field spans about 9,700 km², roughly the size of Qatar itself, and contributes close to 20% of global LNG supply. It took decades and around $70 billion to build the infrastructure. And now, both sides of it have been hit. Even more concerning this field is only about 10% depleted. That means 90% of its gas is still underground. In simple terms, a huge portion of the world’s future energy supply has just become impossible to access. Roughly 35–50% of India’s LNG imports come from here. We are not talking about a short-term disruption. Damage at this scale could take years, possibly a decade, to fully recover from. And the bigger truth is, the global energy landscape may have just been permanently altered for the worse. From an energy perspective, this is dangerously close to a worst-case scenario. Rationing and energy export bans may start appearing in many countries soon. India could follow likely after upcoming state elections pass. Trump knows he messed up. You can believe his denial of involvement in hitting Iran’s South Pars if you want, but realistically, there is almost no chance a strike of this sensitivity happens without full visibility from U.S. Central Command. Operations in that region don’t happen in isolation. At this point, it looks like the U.S. has lost control of its own foreign policy direction. The greatest miscalculation for Trump may not have been the strike itself but allowing the situation to escalate into this war in the first place. He thought Iran, weakened by sanctions, internal pressure, and prior U.S.–Israeli strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, would quickly fold and unconditionally surrender after initial shocks, including high-level assassinations. But that assumption now looks flawed. Instead of collapse, Iran responds with escalation. That is why a bully like Trump is posting “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE” But it will be extremely difficult for Iran to return to any meaningful dialogue with US since they have repeatedly shifted from negotiations to military action.

Half of the crowd we see in cafes is because we don't have investment or maintenance of public library infrastructure in India.

UNPRECEDENTED. Election Commission has completely overhauled the Bengal administration in less than 72 hours of MCC. Here's the list of officers removed and replaced: ▪️Chief Secretary ▪️Home Secretary ▪️Director General of Police ▪️Additional Director General - 3 ▪️Deputy Inspector General (DIG) - 5 ▪️Police Superintendent - 12 ▪️Kolkata Police Commissioner ▪️Deputy Commissioner - Central, KP ▪️Police Commissioners - 4 ▪️District Magistrate - 11 ▪️Commissioner, Kolkata Municipal Corporation

🇨🇳 China enters the era of insect drones and miniature surveillance technologies A drone the size of a mosquito

Jurgen Habermas, one of the world's greatest philosophers, passed away today. These words are my north star. "If any trace of utopianism remains in me, it lies solely in the belief that democracy—and public debate in its optimal forms—has the capacity to cut the Gordian knot of problems that would otherwise be practically insoluble.” The greatest honor of my life was having him read and blurb my book, Dignity in a Digital Age.

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