Prateek Shrivastava

@saumil @contextconor Interested to learn more about this - DM me

@contextconor This take is right on the money. If you have an enterprise-grade product that can clear the traps and actually works at scale and works alongside other ai tooling, I’m ready to try and buy (I’m the President of Ticketmaster).

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The Private Irrevocable Trust: India’s Most Powerful Wealth Shield If HUF saves you taxes, an Irrevocable Trust saves your assets and taxes. Family fights, divorce, court cases wealth can vanish overnight. That’s why India’s richest families (Ambanis, Birlas, Tatas) use Trusts. Here’s the full playbook no one explains simply

The most terrible experience with @Lufthansa. LH760 originally scheduled for 1310 CET on 19 May 25 had equipment failure. Here we are, after an aircraft change, still on the ground at 1755, because the cabin crew is missing! No vouchers given, nothing for the passengers.

@DalrympleWill @muk22 @the_hindu Looking forward to getting my hands on it! Thanks for putting it together.

It's publication day and the first Indian review is in, from the wonderful Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22 @the_hindu "A powerful and sweeping account of a land that was once an economic powerhouse, a civilisational cradle and an exporter of merchandise and ideas – philosophical, religious and scientific. To read The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is like opening a magic box – packed with strange and absorbing characters, quirky and almost-forgotten narratives, startling and uncommon facts. "Once again, Dalrymple demonstrates that rare ability to use primary historical sources to make places and people come alive and show that it is possible to write about the past in a way that is at once consequential and extremely engaging." Mukund Padmanabhan, The Hindu thehindu.com/opinion/interv…

@elonmusk Just type President Trump instead, which is what most know him by.

Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump! Election interference?

"The National Trust might as well rename themselves Al Qaeeda the damage they're doing to this country 😡" Colin from Portsmouth is sick of The National Trust not forcing Easter down our throats

@Jason @MarkKnopfler @DireStraits77 Fantastic! Thanks for sharing - brought a tear to my eye since @MarkKnopfler was a major part of my life growing up. ❤️

Almost 40 years ago @MarkKnopfler and @DireStraits77 wrapped their Brother in Arms tour... now AI has cleaned up the video. this concert is still better than 99%+ of what's being produced today... youtu.be/OizkvZ2xkpY?si…

@DalrympleWill @katherineschof8 Fantastic recommendations. Will pick them up here in the US. Curious, though, are there any up-and-coming indian authors who’s works you would recommend reading?

My Books of the Year in India Today: I chose Patrick Olivelle's Ashoka, Philip Stern’s Company State & @katherineschof8 's Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India indiatoday.in/magazine/leisu…

@piersmorgan Quite disappointed and disgraceful, @piersmorgan, that you did not condemn the practice of phone hacking.

My full statement re Prince Harry/Daily Mirror:

@DalrympleWill Am so glad you did! I feel like I was there again, through your eyes, after all these years :)

My Travel Discoveries & Disappointments of the Year in the FT I've chosen the Siwa Oasis William Dalrymple SIWA OASIS, EGYPT The most revered oracle of the ancient world did not perch on a mountainside at Delphi in Greece; it lay instead in the Siwa Oasis of Egypt, deep in the shifting sands of the far edge of the eastern Libyan Desert. Delphi was respected and feared, but it was also regarded as corrupt and open to manipulation. When Xerxes’ Persians invaded Greece, Delphi’s prophecies seemed to side with the occupying invaders, rather than the Athenians and Spartans. The allies nevertheless went on to successfully block the path of Xerxes at Thermopylae, then Salamis. In contrast, the independence of the incorruptible oracle of Siwa nearly led to its destruction. Some time in the 520s BC, the Siwa Oracle issued some prophecies that were interpreted as being critical of the great Persian king, Cambyses, who had just conquered Egypt. Furious, he sent his army marching across the Sahara from Thebes to put the troublesome priests to death. They never made it. A week into their journey, a strange “wind arose from the south, powerful and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them to disappear”, wrote Herodotus. This sent Cambyses into a spiral of madness from which, at least according to Herodotus, he never recovered. “I have no doubt,” he wrote, “that [by the end] Cambyses was completely out of his mind.” Today the Siwa Oasis is still a gruelling, epic whole-day journey across the desert. You leave Cairo before dawn and pass the pyramids at first light. The road then takes you past the great Coptic monasteries of the Wadi Natrun, then on to Alexandria. Here you turn left and follow the Mediterranean coast for 150 miles, past the battlefield of El Alamein. Then, in the early afternoon, you turn left again, into the desert. You arrive though the relentlessly swirling sands in time to see the sun setting over the strange moonscape of Siwa; the eerie blue waters of the lake reflecting the lapis lazuli sky and the strange white, wind-eroded salt-cliffs that surround it. Beyond stretch unearthly mountains that look like they belong to some far-distant galaxy. Today, just as in antiquity, Siwa feels not quite of this earth, somehow part of a different dimension, or what the ancients clearly felt was a parallel world of the gods. It may have been this that led Alexander the Great to attempt to visit Siwa in person. He aimed to win over the oracle as decisively as Cambyses alienated it. In 332BC, soon after founding the city that would eventually become Alexandria, Alexander set off with only a small group of his Companion Cavalry to consult the oracle. He is said to have followed the path of birds to find the quickest way across the sands, to the Siwa lake. 1/2 From an Egyptian oasis to a yurt in Trømso: travel writers’ discoveries of 2023 - on.ft.com/3NjOIoQ

@DalrympleWill Visited here back in Dec 1998, inspired by @MichaelWoodMV’s documentary on Alexander the Great. It was like entering another world!

The Citadel of Siwa- Where Alexander of Macedon came in 332 BCE...

@tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill Was one of my favorite episodes! Thanks both @tweeter_anita and @DalrympleWill

Hot pod! The Zoroastrians. Only 100,000-200,000 in the world today, but a once mighty religion of ancient Persia. Some famous & powerful zoroastrians you may know… but what is Zoroastrianism? Where did it come from. Why did it decline? @EmpirePodUK With me & @DalrympleWill

Amazing advancements!!

@Jason Exactly!

Wow… Vivek went full conspiracy theorist tonight huh?!

Obelisk celebrating pioneering Lady Mary Wortley Montagu given highest listing Aristocrat introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, saving many lives, yet remains largely unknown @tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

@narendramodi Great campaign!

The #VocalForLocal movement is getting great momentum across the country.

An unmissable opportunity to work with one of the brightest minds of our times. @DeblinaSarkar59

This is the statement issued today by six former PMs of Australia

@DalrympleWill What is happening is unbelievable and unconscionable - on both sides. Colonial history and religion are to blame…. We live in dark times.

Gaza Children among dead as air strike hits convoy of fleeing refugees thetimes.co.uk/article/f99f15…

Looking forward to my next chapter in life - building #venturestudio to de-risk innovation in #frontiermarkets. africa.com/empact-launche…