Lily D'Potter
@LilyMePot
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Extraordinary writer. Waiting for this book.
Ever since I read Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders—a book I fell for sentence by perfect sentence—I’ve been waiting for the novel only he could write. So excited to publish this, wrapped in a Salman Toor painting that's about to stop you in your tracks.
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If Congress knew what worked against them, they'd not be where they are
I have covered cong for years - I can say this with authority - a v v senior cong leader told me that the chaiwala jibe was the biggest mistake made by cong - this mistake is being repeated .
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Jab sarkar mein the tab baton ke alawa kuch aur kiya tha kya Kant? #AmitabhKantSaysThings
In the run- up to the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2025 I write on five pivotal ideas for India and the world at an inflection point. These are : using AI to improve outcomes at scale; a green industrial strategy; sustainable urbanisation as the next big driver of growth;
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Art saves lives.
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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Tom Stoppard, a dear friend of le Carré. They corresponded frequently, from congratulations for Shakespeare in Love in 1999 to feedback for A Legacy of Spies in 2017. At his 87th birthday in 2019, David said that he thought of Tom as the
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The hate for Jaya Bachchan after her IV to @BDUTT is unreal. It’s like we hate people being real & unfiltered now. Everyone must virtue signal. Have you heard & seen the uncouth paparazzi? Why can’t she have a view? Hugely talented actor. I thought her views on marriage were
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RIP Tom Stoppard, pictured here with my late father (on whom the professor in Rock 'n Roll was partly based). Taken one sunny @hayfestival day many years ago...
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Tom Stoppard died in England, the country he once described as a coat he put on at eight and never took off. The label inside that coat, though, might as well have read: “Made in Zlín. Fitted in Singapore. Lined in Darjeeling.” | @niksez in @thewire_in
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It was the first country that gave him clear, continuous memories of childhood. Darjeeling was the first landscape he remembered.
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Tom Stoppard & his mother in Nainital in 1942 with other children and wives of Bata employees. They had to leave Czechoslovakia & come to India via Singapore. Tomik and Marta are on the far right. Photo shared by @niksez who has written a marvellous obit in @thewire_in
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Enjoy another gem from Momin: roya karen ge aap bhi pahron isi tarah atka kahin jo aap ka dil bhi meri tarah رویا کریں گے آپ بھی پہروں اسی طرح اٹکا کہیں جو آپ کا دل بھی مری طرح Notice the deft use of "atka" here; very colloquial.
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Tom Stoppard died in England, the country he once described as a coat he put on at 8, never took off. The label inside that coat might as well have read: “Made in Zlín. Fitted in Singapore. Lined in Darjeeling.” Excellent tribute by Nikhil Kumar.
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It was the first country that gave him clear, continuous memories of childhood. Darjeeling was the first landscape he remembered.
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Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood
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Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works, writes David Mamet for The Free Press.
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Anuradha Roy on Living in the Mountains and Writing 'Called by the Hills’ @jahnavi_sen answers the calling, turns the pages and speaks to the author
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Remember reading this fine @mukulkesavan essay on Dharmendra, RIP https://t.co/iHQbg09pfR
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Author Mukul Kesavan took a look at Dharmendra’s career in 2008 in a piece about how despite acting in nearly 250 films and delivering some of Hindi cinema’s most memorable performances, Dharmendra...
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Brand new edition of Kai Chand…if you haven’t read it yet, get yours now
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The back of this gorgeous special edition of an extraordinary novel
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This is a fascinating article by Anand Teltumbde. He argues that the Indian state has made the annihilation of caste structurally impossible by absorbing caste into its constitutional and bureaucratic logic instead of dismantling it.
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Prashant Kishor's election performance reminds me of what happens when literary critics write their debut novels.
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Bihar is always behind. They have caught the receding wave and given these jokers a thumping mandate. For me it is also a sign that the days of MoSha are numbered. Winning Bihar will mean losing India for them.
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