Vijay Ramachandran

A sense of humour is all we have left, everything else the government has put GST on

Hello again! Here's our piece from Sunday about Twitter. Bye! youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_x…

“Some will question spending administrative capital on animals amid so many other urgencies. The answer is simple. A civilised state must do more than one good at once…” hindustantimes.com/opinion/viksit…

@r3dash @Chaits_ Foundation keeps bunch of the original Asimov series of novels BUT massively diverges too. Give it a watch and you’ll find it grow on you. Masters of the Air is a great watch specially if you liked Band of Brothers

@Chaits_ Thanks. I've read Shantaram so don't want to spoil that. Foundation seems a little heavy on the Sci Fi for my taste.

What are you folks watching on OTT these days? Movies? TV Series? I would love some recommendations.

@r3dash Superb

If you have an iPhone, go watch the F1 trailer. Apple has added haptic feedback to the trailer and it’s so good.

Sad: Noted Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor Jayant Narlikar passes away at 87.

@kmr_dilip @ProsaicView @threadreaderappunroll

Hospitals are the only profitable healthcare businesses in India. Top 5 hospitals made 47000 crore in revenue last year. Startup founders building in health can learn more from studying a hospital business than downloading health apps of their competitors. Hospitals win because:

FIAPO is participating in the upcoming TCS World 10K Marathon to raise funds for our legal work in protecting captive elephants and advocating for their rehabilitation. Donate by scanning the QR Code or accessing this link - lnkd.in/gcbGBRuh! Spread the word!

@manaman_chhina @bsdhanoa Also, tone deaf to rename a fort that had a trench named the Maratha Ditch to prevent Maratha Bargi raiders. That ditch marked the outer limit of the city as well many moons ago.

@bsdhanoa Renaming should be commensurate with the history of the place. To name it after a Maharashtrian fort and to name a building after Shivaji shows political colours of the Army brass.

I find nothing wrong or awkward in the renaming of military installations, Fort William, Kolkata being the latest example.

@BhaJaPod @kunalpurohit @AbbasMomin Since you guys mentioned it, there’s a low res version of Dev Benegal’s English August here: videa.hu/videok/film-an…

EPISODE ALERT: Joined by Kunal Purohit (@kunalpurohit) and Abbas Momin (@AbbasMomin), we talk about Indian cinema and popular culture since 1 AD and about what can and cannot be made anymore. Coldplay in India, Vivek Oberoi in Davos. open.spotify.com/episode/6ldijs…

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the (Washington) Post” - the brilliant @AnnTelnaes 🖌️

Standup Comedy thrived in India post 2004. Dr. Manmohan Singh was the key because: 1. The generation and social class that benefited from liberalisation of the 90s grew up to be the voice of the confident new India - demanding accountability and seeing sense of humor as an essential trait of social discourse. 2. Another result of liberalisation - mobile internet became a reality for a huge section of the middle/upper middle classes, giving new, uncensored platforms for a new form of art/humor. 3. His government - like all governments - was flawed, creating enough relatable material to go viral. And they did push back - like introducing the draconian IT Act Sec 66A late in the day. But unlike many other governments of past and future - MMS didn’t practice brutal censorship or punitive action against humour/satire. The entire social media opposed the IT Act or the various acts of alleged corruption/inefficiency without being labelled anti-national or getting r*pe threats. The artists - not just professional standup comedians but big film stars also - felt safe sharing jokes about the govt policies/PM/ministers. A sense of freedom is the biggest incentive artists crave for - and the MMS govt provided that above anything else. Thanks Dr. Saab.

Farewell, Dr. Singh. It will be a shame, if by choosing to replace rational analysis with empty slogans, and genuine reforms with nationalistic chest-thumping, India lets down the memory of its quiet internationalist. My @opinion piece, free to read: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@SachinKalbag Feel your loss, Sachin. Take care.

We lost our Daisy today to a multiorgan failure. She was at the Tata Small Animal Hospital for a few days where she got the best care possible, but her body just could not respond to treatment. She was 13. Thank you to everyone for showering your love all these years 🙏🏽

On Gandhi Jayanti, a heartfelt pledge to India, Indians and the Constitution by Maj Gen S G Vombatkere (retd)…

Some incarecrations are a travesty of justice, all that is good. #UmarKhalid1400daysinJail #ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners there is also Gulfishan Mahesh Meeran Idisha Adviasi Actiists J & K...how free are we really? @banojyotsna

“If journalists are left to face penalties in lakhs of rupees in damages, will it not have a chilling effect on free and fair reporting?” wrote the Mumbai Press Club on X today, asking the Hindu to “not abandon” journalist Rahul Pandita in a 2014 defamation suit. newslaundry.com/2024/07/09/chi…

The press bodies across the country passed a resolution against proposed laws that meant to silence the press. @PressCouncil_IN @MIB_India @PIB_India

@jugalrp @PMOIndia @narendramodi @PrakashJavdekar @MIB_India @MoHFW_INDIA @RahulGandhi @INCIndia @FinMinIndia @AmitShah @HMOIndia @memdotai mem it

IMP 🚨 INVESTIGATION India's lockdown was called world's largest, strictest etc. @ BBC, we wanted to know how the govt planned it. So, what're we looking at? Govt docs that reveal every department/agency who was consulted by PM Modi before imposing #lockdown. #Thread

Parents of a fashion design student who died by suicide after allegedly being molested in #Bhubaneswar had to wait for over a fortnight to convince police to register an abetment of suicide case | ✍️ @mehta_asish @NewIndianXpress @santwana99 @Siba_TNIE newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/…