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@ShashiTharoor @IndianExpress To complete your quote, another from Joseph Conrad, summing up “The Heart of Darkness”: “The horror! The horror!”

5/5 I have long been a faithful reader of the @indianexpress, which has a remarkable history and still has the best op-ed pages in the Indian media. But this episode has merely added to my profound scepticism about Indian journalism altogether, which has again maintained its usual standards of utter unreliability. I write this thread in sorrow, not in anger. You cannot blame anyone for being themselves. This is sadly what our journalistic culture has become: scant regard for accuracy or veracity, lust for clickbait headlines, breathless obsession with the speculative and the trivial. Our democracy cannot do without a free press. As a convinced democrat, I will never call for greater regulation or controls on the media. But is it completely futile to hope for better standards of journalism in our country? Not less journalism — just better journalism? @indeditorsguild @editorsguildind @PressCouncil_IN @rajkamaljha @MathewLiz @BDUTT @sardesairajdeep @JhaSanjay @suvirsaran

1/5 A rather important thread that i hope will be read in our country’s journalism schools: The last few days have offered an object lesson in how the news is “made“. @IndianExpress wanted to draw attention to their new Malayalam podcast, so they did two somewhat shameless things: First, they took an innocuous statement (I said i had multiple “options to spend my time” in literary pursuits) and made a headline out of it in English that implied i was exploring other political options. And as usual, the rest of the media reacted to the headline and the political class reacted to the media, and I was left dealing with the mess! The expression #BreakingNews has multiple meanings after all…

Sukhwinder Singh “Nagini” silkrd.com/f/sukhwinder-s…

@alphajames @MichaelAArouet Brillat-Savarin said: Give them good wine and they will make good laws.

@MichaelAArouet Over coffee and a smoke is where regulations are born 🤣🤣

Europeans watching DeepSeek overtake ChatGPT on Apple App Store

Silk Road is now the largest copyright owner in India. 🇮🇳

@BUL 👍

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David Guetta is back at no. 1! silkrd.com/f/david-guetta… via @silkroad

@DalrympleWill Let’s frame the issue correctly. This is not a war between (the people of ) Israel and Hamas. It is a war between the assassins of Anwar al-Sadat (MB/Hamas) and the assassins of Yitzhak Rabin who are governing Israel. Hamas was their creature to kill the two-State solution.

A horrifying and blood-chilling compilation of clips and verified quotes from the current Israeli civil and military leadership calling for the levelling of Gaza and/or the extermination of its "human animals." After seeing this, no one should believe any PR spin about "doing all that they can to avoid civilian casualties," "precision bombing" or worse still "the most moral army in the world." A significant proportion of Netanyahu's generals and ministers clearly want to wipe out the people of Gaza, or to ethnically cleanse them and drive them into the Sinai desert. Here is the evidence in their own words, recoded live on television.

@FareedZakaria @tomfriedman To a neutral observer, this attack has all the attributes of a meticulously planned outrage. Like 9/11 provoked the US into spending USD 4.5T in two wars that have permanently dented its credibility, Israel looks poised to walk into the same trap. Attention: global chaos ahead.

The broader context of the attack on Israel: how it happened, what it means for a changing region, and what comes next. Today I talked with @tomfriedman

@sandeep_PT Gentleman, it is not a card but a 80gr receipt paper. The signature on the stamp is my wife’s. We founded the Alliance Française in Ahmedabad and I archived all members’ documents in sealed cardboards in a dark room for tax compliance purpose. Nothing more should be read into it.

@Champakali03 @murtazahsyed We all know RK Laxman was a great economist.

@murtazahsyed Fatal flaw in your summary. He did nothing. It was the IMF and the WB which laid down the conditions and he was forced to do it. The congress party touted it as his reforms and fooled the public. There is even a famous cartoon by RK Laxman about this. 😂

Some 30 years ago, India too was on the edge of bankruptcy. In response, its Finance Minister delivered a budget speech for the ages. It changed India forever. It couldn't be more different than the budget we have recently heard in Pak. A thread on that remarkable India speech...

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@thankgodimfat_ @SloganMurugan It has another name. Can’t remember. It was long ago. Thanks for your posts!

@silkroad @SloganMurugan Kanthari molaku? Bird’s eye chilli

Odankolli, literally transalates to instant death. These beauties add such a nice herby aftertaste and heat to chicken, fish and chutneys. A classic addition in fish curries from south Trivandrum, I have read that it is from the Habanero family. #Chillies #Keralafood

@nitinjin4 @Paperclip_In Their exact locations, please?

@Paperclip_In Interesting as usual! I have scanned Mumbai on foot, but never noticed large number of baobabs. Two I know of are, one in Colaba & one in byculla. Does anybody know where else? Curious!

Nestled in the Vindhya ranges of Central India lies Mandu, an ancient city that is today famous for its palaces and tragic love stories. Interestingly, Mandu also has a hidden treasure that may have its roots somewhere in Africa – a thread. 1/12

@iam_Alok @Paperclip_In 👍Bob Dylan shares the same feeling on “Key West (Philosopher Pirate)” (first verse)

@Paperclip_In Doesn’t matter how many years passes by or many technologies may emerge in the future but tuner radios will stay relevant in humans life as it was the first tech that must’ve amazed then generations providing source of entertainment n info using air and electricity only.

About 70 years ago, the whims of India’s first Minister of Information & Broadcasting led to the birth of the most iconic radio programme for Indian listeners. A thread (1/17)

@GoldSwitzerland Egon, please stick to what you know best, for what I follow you. If I want to know about heart surgery, astrophysics, or the Ukraine conflict, I will go to specialists, researchers, and any other informed sources. Sur l’Ukraine, tu es complètement à côté de la plaque. Sincèrement

The US has no desire for peace at this stage of the #UkraineRussiaWar and Europe just follows blindly whatever the US initiates without thinking of the consequences which both economically and militarily are much graver for Europe

Tonight 7:00 PM on Radio One National Network “Drive with Erica”

@jawharsircar As an atheist, I see only happy people standing in queue at a reputed shop to buy good cakes made by good chefs to celebrate a nice festival. That is my India.

The spirit of India!