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Crossing Mumbai airport, saw lots of eagles circling in the sky. Could be waste or dead animals somewhere. Is dangerous for aircraft. Hope some action will be taken. #mumbaiairport @DGCAIndia @mybmc

Every election coverage has the so-called media experts tripping over to name themselves the best. Get over it @navikakumar @sardesairajdeep @ShivAroor. Prime time doesn’t mean you gloat. And pl stop hogging airwaves. Janta sab jaanti hai.

One of the gems of brilliant scriptwriting - #muthualiaskattaan - the constable dumbing dissociative amnesia to ‘Disco Shanthi’. Only 90s degenerate can do that! @VijaySethuOffl #india #bollywood #indiancinema

A contested legacy and a challenge for Bihar’s political parties | The Caravan. One of the most accurate analysis of Bihar politics and a candid assessment of the guru of politics ⁦@NitishKumar⁩. #thecaravan has outdid itself with this. caravanmagazine.in/politics/nitis…

@derekobrienmp @virsanghvi Just as the other media and political personalities “spew” and thank each other. Mutual admiration and a kindred club!!

@virsanghvi “Rich Indians go to Davos to feel important for free…” wish I wrote that terrific line

Davos is where rich Indians go to feel important-for free. They hardly ever get to forge relationships with the important people there but at least they breathe the same air. Industrialists charge the trip to shareholders. Politicians to taxpayers It’s fun for free

Despite%20jolts%2C%20how%20AIMIM%20pulled%20off%20its%20best%20show%20in%20Maharashtra%20civic%20polls indianexpress.com/article/politi… One of the best analyses post BMC election results. An all round clear explanation of the rise of #AIMIM specially in #Marathwada and impact in the polls

What is happening in #bangladesh? How did we miss this? How can someone so close to us, now look so aloof? What happened to Grameen Bank wonder #ProfYunus?

Today’s @IndianExpress is a collector’s item. @ChouhanShivraj Mama on one page defending #GRAMG. The other page has @JeanDrezex, avowed govt critic talk about #mgnrega its gaps and how #GRAMGBill was rushed. Thank you @IndianExpress

@thecaravanindia Again the same ilk of people who give themselves too much importance, so much so that they have started cover-paging themselves!

Sunil Menon, one of the magazine’s oldest editors, who left in September 2021, told me that Outlook did not really begin with “strong journalistic ideas.” Rather, “editorially, there was a collective forming around the personage of Vinod Mehta, which sounded very exciting. And he had been known to have a very individual capacity to be very novel, be very innovative, very daring, say things with a lot of panache.” Mehta was a famous muckraker, who, Menon noted, was “not very politically literate” but interested in “goings-on and the shenanigans of those in power” and a “more gossip-oriented kind of knowledge of politics.” Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray) reports: caravanmagazine.in/media/dismantl…

@ThePrintIndia @nailainayat Is it my brain fog or the freshness of writing hitherto not read in India, but the article reads like a set of reckless sentences running into ether. Saying what? Dunno

5/5: For more on the ongoing civil-military circus in Pakistan, read #ThePrintOpinion by Naila Inayat @nailainayat: 'Imran Khan went from laadla to ‘zehni mareez’ for Pakistan army. It’s a circus we know well' #LetterFromPakistan theprint.in/opinion/imran-…

1/5: Imran Khan wants the world to recognise Asim Munir as a “mentally unstable person”. DG ISPR tries to convince us that Imran Khan himself is a “frustrated”, “zehni mareez”. It is rather entertaining how the Pakistan army now finds itself at crossroads with its own laadla.

@thecaravanindia What are you saying or not saying??

Archvies | In the first week of January, Nischalanand Saraswati, who holds one of the four highest Hindu ecclesiastical titles—Shankaracharya—told journalists that he would not attend the Ram temple’s inauguration, because it was beneath his station to watch Modi install the statue. He believed the installation could only be done by a dharmacharya—a Brahmin man who is an authority on Hindu dogma. In 2019, Modi had publicly claimed that he belonged to the Extremely Backward Classes. The Ram temple at #Ayodhya is a vehicle to promote Brahminical supremacy, read @Sagar_reporter's essay from January 2024: caravanmagazine.in/commentary/ram…

Let’s admit it - @chiragpaswan comes across as a deserving heir who has toiled hard to be where he is now. He gives hope to an image weary state. Here’s to wishing this young leader!

@NAN_DINI_ And in response to @sagarikaghose , like Irfan Khan’s character tells @SrBachchan in Piku “kamaal hai, kaise har cheez ghuma ke pet se jod dete ho”!

The year was 1980. Indian television had very little to offer, and it was around this time that one of my friends knowing of my interest in theatre, asked whether I’d be interested in joining a show being put up on Doordarshan. The person leading the initiative, she said, was someone she knew, the daughter of a senior bureaucrat posted at Doordarshan. Even at that age, I could tell the script was nothing remarkable. The entire setup was rather amateurish - more suited to a college festival than national television but we nevertheless had a great deal of fun rehearsing this parody on Shakespeare. Now, to the actual story. It was around Diwali, and our rehearsals were held at her residence in Pandara Road. The doorbell seemed to ring endlessly, one uniformed chauffeur after another, or some junior aide arriving with gifts. From behind the mesh door, she would call out, all of eighteen years old, “Kya laya?” “Madam,” the man would begin respectfully, “Saab ke liye TV laye hain.” “Rakh do,” she would order, and the item would be placed on a table kept specifically for the purpose. Sometimes it was a dinner set. Sometimes a food processor. A cut-glass vase. But god forbid if it was dry fruit or mithai. “No perishables! No perishables!” she would shriek. “Vapas le jaane ka!” And sure enough, the man would reappear the next day with something more ‘desirable.’ For the rest of us, still naïve, cocooned, and unaccustomed to such “transactions” - it was fascinating to watch someone barely older than us manage this little economy of favours with such flair. Two years later, that same girl married and moved to the US. My friend, the one who had introduced me to her was doing her master’s there. They met by chance at a mall, where she suddenly realised her companion was shoplifting. Horrified, she distanced herself immediately. Not long after, the girl was caught in the act and even served a short jail term. It must be said - those who never learn to pay their way eventually find it difficult to live in a world where they must, like the rest of us.

Tone down the hero worship. Already. Even @piyushpan would cringe. #piyushpandey #indianadvertising

#KarurStampede We refuse to learn lessons from previous tragedies; we won’t learn from this one either. This will happen again because we simply don’t have the infrastructure to handle large crowds: @KartiPC in conversation with @Prathibhatweets.

It was something that was there but not fully. After about month, the penny dropped. @palkisharma’s rendering of opionated news is like somebody reading aloud Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations! Opinion laden sentences in that intonation where commas, stops are the same!

@MTPHereToHelp Stuck on Andheri flyover for past 20 mins. Huge jam ahead. South bound traffic held up. #mumbaitraffic

Sometimes the antara is far enchanting than the mukhda! #Swami movie’s Ka Karoon song - 2nd antara - Bhor bhai aur sanjh dhali - is so heavenly and blends the descent with that masterful dhol-tabla jugalbandi! Levitating! @drkjyesudas

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@mindthrust One of the most stupid features of modern living - there are many but rooftop pools take the cake! #rooftoppool #earthquake #myanmar #mandalay #thailand

Just experienced a 7.7 strength #earthquake in #Bangkok for close to 3 minutes. Its epicenter was Mandalay, Myanmar, over 1200 kms from here. Despite the distance it swayed buildings; caused cracks, forced evacuations and rooftop pools cascaded much water to down below. Scary!