Rahul Bhatia

Reading post-𝖽̶𝖾̶𝗆̶𝗈̶𝖼̶𝗋̶𝖺̶𝖼̶𝗒̶ poll opeds and I believe they're not grateful enough. Someone nominate G Pandey for Viceroy of India, a post that clearly needs to be revived.

In this piece, I explain why we cannot treat or analyze these elections as usual and why they cannot be considered fully legitimate, regardless of how any party performed. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com… via @economictimes

@hash62 No, they were separate statements.

"While urging that the incident not be politicised", probably this statement is="they have a voice of their own" 🤔

@SushantSin Really, I was not surprised! Of all the things to keep out…

@socmedrab And not surprising that Express missed reporting that bit :)

Choudhry basically told viewers not to think of her as their voice, because they have a voice of their own. It isn’t in the report.

Amazing to see an Indian reporter in Iran! I'll be following @Saurabh_Unmute's reporting and so should you

Procrastinated so hard this morning I did my tax returns

@SushantSin I’m thinking about it too. This might just be a ‘good-news’ story—a little respite from the mountain of bad news—that’s true in this fleeting moment, but may not be thirty days from now.

@socmedrab I was surprised that a story went against the prevalent narrative in pink papers that huge losses, or underrecoveries as they love to call them, for state owned firms. Which was a way of creating the public consensus for a sharp hike in retail fuel rates.

Will it protect the consumer?

My @ftweekend story about besieged residents of Dubai caught between government assurances and the evidence of their eyes. It’s about belief and the control of information. (From earlier this month.) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

@eaudenonsense Sorry for the confusion

@socmedrab Oops!

From my book: How Advani's vilification of Muslims led to the creation of the database that became Aadhaar, the ultimate tool of exclusion. Advani wanted it because he was obsessed with "infiltrators", said his advisors, who knew exactly what he meant. amazon.in/Identity-Proje…

@eaudenonsense Thank you! (And there’s only one. Same book, two titles.)

@socmedrab Just ordered! And am reading the first one.

@eaudenonsense I tried. Let me what you think!

@socmedrab Thank you for this important work!

@AmoghDS @newindiafndtion Amogh, I didn’t know you were here. Just to say that you wrote a great book!

Absolutely delighted to find my book on the longlist for @newindiafndtion’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay book prize. Read more: amp.scroll.in/article/108557…

@2talkon @INCIndia @narendramodi It was introduced publicly by INC, but the blueprint was created under the BJP. It languished for a few years before emerging as UID.

@socmedrab #DigitalID aadhaar introduced by @INCIndia in the guise of Direct Welfare payments. Soon after #Demonetization, @narendramodi started coercing + linking the sham ID to everything, which has actually given back door citizenship to illegals. Fully hacked & compromised.

@GavJacobson @johnpmerrick Good stuff, Gavin.

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Analyst asked for Friday off Said it was for his sister's wedding Asked if he was the groom He said no He's from Alabama so had to ask Informed him his attendance was technically optional Request denied Always do proper due diligence No question goes unasked Instead of drinking at his sister's wedding, he'll spend Friday aligning objects horizontally and vertically in PowerPoint Removing gridlines from spreadsheets He'll thank me later for the discipline Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

There's so much in this marvelous profile of Romila Thapar by @rkarnad. It felt like reading about independent India itself. Just beautiful. psyche.co/portraits/romi…