Sunit Arora
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Editor, Writer, Media Consultant I Tracking the India story for over three decades I Ex @livemint @outlookindia @afaqs @IndianExpress @timesofindia et al I SSC
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"If you don't see what's behind that which you see
You're as blind as blind can be"
Tirukkural, 355
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I interviewed Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy for Outlook magazine in 2009, on the eve of the general elections. In the context of his recent statements about Manmohan Singh's stewardship of the economy ("stagnated") , it's interesting to revisit his comments.
#Thread
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My sister is fascinated with Mrs G, clearly I'm not impressed. Calcutta, early 70s.
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Sorry, Mr President, that's
#FakeNews
Demonetisation was a defining moment in the Govt’s war on corruption and black money. This decision struck at the very root of the parallel economy thriving on black money; and the money outside the formal system was brought within the ambit of nation’s economy
#PresidentKovind
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To help understand just how the govt went about its strategy for wheat exports, watch this 2m video by a member of the PM's eco advisory council! :)
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My parents moments after getting married in Paris on this day fifty years ago.
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Seven cops drive 700km to deliver a summons notice to
@svaradarajan
for a
@thewire_in
story.
This *virus* of intimidation is unacceptable and must be stopped...protect free speech and a free press.
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As expected Shekhar Gupta shifts everything -- blame, retribution, humility -- to the 'god' that is the market, but not a word about the allegations against Adani. Yeh sab market ki maaya hai, wah wah.
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Uttarakhand’s legal department also came up with this beauty…
Uniform civil code, Uttarakhand: Couples in live-in relationships will have to submit a statement. The concerned registrar, after an enquiry, will either issue registration certificate or refuse. If the couple fail to register their relationship or withhold information about
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Astounded how
@NHAI_Official
and the UP govt allows kawars (pilgrims) to take over national highways. After 12 hours on various highways large and small, I can affirm everything is in a mess. You can't shut down India's most trafficked road for over a month and push for UCC.
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In 2009, when I asked NRN about the significance of the approaching election, he said: "This election is very important because it is being held after a ten-year period of spectacular economic growth in the country."
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Then Murthy went on to praise Manmohan Singh: "MMS has brought the need for inclusive growth to the front burner. In that sense, today, there is a much greater awareness of the fact that not everybody in the country has benefited from our extraordinary economic growth."
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Basically, corporates like Murthy have to walk the line between genuflecting to the current regime while keeping a door open to old ones. The fact that he's hit out openly about Cong++ indicates just how India Inc views their chances in 2024.
The link:
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Many countries have an inheritance tax: Japan, France, UK, US etc. Usually it applies above a high limit - so it affects the very wealthy. Agree or disagree - it’s an idea that should be debated in a country with high levels of inequality.
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Murthy repeated this point later: "For the first time, our Prime Minister – for whom I have tremendous respect – has been trying to focus the attention of the country on the need to achieve inclusive growth. That to me is a fresh thing; a watershed phenomenon in this election."
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The
@ECISVEEP
officer came to my home today, seeking my participation in
#AadhaarVoterIDCardLink
.
I smiled and politely told him that I wasn't going to do so. The officer noted it down, saying the link can also be done online.
Putting this out for awareness.
@no2uid
@apar1984
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Overheard @ Bhopal: "My vote has always been for BJP, but we'll make Digvijay win. He'll do something for us in Delhi, unlike Pragya who we'll never see again."
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CEO overheard @ dinner: "There are only 4 segments doing well in the economy: astrologers for future preictions; chemists for stress pills; alcohol for drowning one's sorrows; and restaurants for giving the family a sense of normalcy."
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More Frm Murthy" "For all the criticism of our politicians, let us remember that we have elected two extraordinary gentlemen as our prime ministers in recent years – Vajpayee and MMS. Both these people have been acknowledged as honest, intelligent, decent people..."
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Abused and vilified, the author of The Wire story on Jay Amit Shah deserves our support.
#journalism
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Reporting vandalism at Zafar Mahal in Delhi's Mehrauli village. The guard informed me that 8 days ago, vandals destroyed part of the jaali (circled area in older pic) in front of the tombs of three Mughal emperors and Bahadur Shah II's empty tomb.
@aarvee1970
@SamDalrymple123
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He even talked about how he could directly reach the PM: "And, then there are some corporate leaders who can pick up the phone and request to speak to the PM. That speaks a lot about the open-mindedness of our recent prime ministers. I am talking about Vajpayee and MMS."
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Many will argue this is a one-sided narrative of the times we live in. But I would especially urge disbelievers to read this piece, for Dexter Filkins smartly connects most of the dots about the Modi-Shah's cultural project.
well done,
@RanaAyyub
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You're a journalist, right, ma'am?
The real question on Rafale is why the Defense Ministry is leaking like a sieve. How are top secret documents finding their way into the media? Why is the Defense Minister unable to plug these leaks?
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Murthy continues "...People who have the good of the country in mind, and people who believe in transparency, fairness and accountability. The need of the day is to ensure that we have many, many more such leaders."
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5:57am...
1975 :: Cartoon by Abu Abraham Showing President Fakhruddin Ahmed, Signing Proclamation of Emergency Fom His Bathtub
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One more reason to Love India's South: a robust newspaper reading habit; note the tube placed at many a gate to protect them from the elements.
Near Udipi.
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Remembering my editor Vinod Mehta on his sixth death anniversary...
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On world press freedom day,
@svaradarajan
is one of 17 journalists worldwide, and the only Indian, to be presented the Freedom of Speech Award from
@dwnews
Well done.
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How the Adanis got a 99-yr lease to a AB Vajpayee funded hospital... )
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I've read, re-read the Wire story on Jay Shah. It quotes facts, gets a response from Shah Jr, raises Qs. Who has the story defamed? 1/2
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NRN: "We need reforms, but we need good regulation too. We must to be free to conduct our businesses from our boardrooms, rather than waiting in the corridors of govt. However, we do need better regulation. Improving regulations is one imp dimension of reforms in the govt."
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A serious health incident can push most Indians into poverty. Falling govt expenditure is worrying
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All the fond farewells for Rajiv Kumar and Amitabh Kamt are incomplete without this 2m video from 2019.
#NITIAayog
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Pascale Chavance gave her full support to Nadav Lapid: “Muslims are presented as monsters, without distinction.” Spanish director Javier Angulo Barturen concurred: “I completely agree with Nadav Lapid...it was the majority opinion within the jury.”
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Lot of painstaking work in this detailed investigation on 'A Bus for the Minister'
@thewire_in
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“It was spoken in no uncertain terms that
#Facebook
needs to boost the image of Modi as a visionary and global leader whose popularity was second only to Donald Trump,” said a Delhi-based Facebook executive.
By
@RanaAyyub
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I’m amazed there’s practically no coverage of the Rs 777-crore G20 tunnel in the media.
How can we want to be a world power if one of our top construction companies L&T can’t execute a 1.3-km tunnel in the heart of India’s capital?
Who is responsible for this mess?
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Am told there's more to come...a video, perhaps?
@bainjal
Breaking : French authorities waived taxes worth 143,7 million euros for Anil Ambani's French-based company just a few months after PM Modi announced his plans to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from Dassault. Our story with
@annemichel_LM
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Let's get this straight: the army defends and faces death at India's borders so that a 21-yr-old can say her mind without fear.
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Shocked and gutted to hear about the untimely passing away of cartoonist Jayachandran, whose fine lines and sharp reading of politics & society will be sorely missed. He had a long career in Outlook and Mint, where I worked with him closely. Here are some of his works. RIP, Jaya.
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Walked into
@midlandbook
after 3 months to say hi to the resourceful Mr Baig. May such temples of society flourish!
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Whether you hide it or not, India's second wave of covid-19 in April and May 2021 has permanently scarred the Indian psyche—it is this generation's 1962 war, a humiliating defeat. We should not sweep it under the carpet, but learn from our mistakes so that it never happens again.
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Despite this turmoil for Alt News, which is run by the founders’ nonprofit company, Pravda Media Foundation, supporters have stood by it. Donations that fund the site have remained steady, through contributions that average $12 a month per person.
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.
@IndianExpress
pits father vs son on its op-ed pages.
Yashwant Sinha writes: "The state has no religion."
Jayant Sinha's piece has this headline: "We are a dharmic democracy."
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It's not a Hindu-Muslim issue...the big state is subjugating all India n citizens. - powerful.piece by
@sagarikaghose
H/t
@sardesairajdeep
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Folks in Mumbai viewing the Air India art collection at NGMA, watch out for my mother Marie Dias Arora's oil on canvas titled Winter of discontent. Air India picked it up in 1983, 40 years ago!
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Ha ha! As Arun Shourie famously said: BJP is Congress plus cow
From “congress mukt Bharat” Amit Shah has gone to “congress Yukt Bjp”
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So, finally
@ashwaqM
heads to Harvard for the Nieman fellowship... All the best!(seen here receiving an internal
@livemint
award for her
#mintlongstory
on social media victims)
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'Moochwala' passes away. Just heard that that cartoonist Ajith Ninan passed away in Mysore. Rest in peace.
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The BJP has reason to celebrate. Congress will live to fight another day, & 2019 is far from done and dusted. But the messengers of hate have more oxygen, and that must worry us all. All right-thinking Indians must continue the fight against bigotry & divisive politics.
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The question is not who is selling, but why there are no significant buyers scooping up something that has become 81% cheaper in a month.
@Moneylifers
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Faqir Chand Kohli, co-founder & CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), gets his blood tested at a Tata group office, circa 1962.
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Want to make sense of the murky dealings in the Amit Shah (Sohrabuddin) case? Look no further than this fine piece by
@raman_anuradha
, KS Shani,
@chatukhor
& Prachi Pinglay Plumber in Outlook in February 2015.
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Excellent obituary of Cyrus Mistry by Ajit Ranade who pinpoints what exactly led to the breakdown in relations with Ratan Tata: how much information could be shared with elders who were not on the board of listed Tata entities.
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Personal & cheap attacks on
@thewire_in
journalist & editors show somebody is hurting bad. That's a moment of celebration for Ind journalism
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Some good news -- Mint’s Ashwaq Masoodi only Indian to get the Harvard Nieman fellowship. Well done
@ashwaqM
#mintlongstory
@vinaykamat
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Jay Shah. India Foundation. Paradise Papers...it's amazing the opposition is still not going to town. No wonder BJP is brazen.
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An economist in Pakistan told me some years ago there's one difference between his country and India.
Like India, he said, we have 30%+ people who have extreme religious views...but in Pakistan they kill if your views upset them.
Well, we're on our way to bridging that gap.
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If you’re in Ahmedabad this morning, must visit the real Gujarat model - Adalaj - surely the most beautiful stepwell in India.
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Opening words of the Constitution are "We the people" not "We the government of India".
#important
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Kalyug
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Oh my, it's exactly 10 years since the
#radiatapes
story. Here's my profile for Outlook, where I wrote "Who is this woman who can speak to the “highest and mightiest” in this country in this way? From where does she draw her power? And what does it tell us about our society?"
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I find it deeply problematic that a Govt lawyer is representing Jay Amit Shah. Imagine the uproar if Robert Vadra had got the same privilege
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A useful reminder of the facts behind the false rhetoric that drives many Hindu views about Muslims...but are we at a stage where facts don't matter in a sea of WhatsApp forwards?
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So what if the BJP is silent on Ajit Doval's son's NGO? Maheshwar Peri smartly summarizes the issue in 10 questions.
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RBI directors were of the view that most of the black money was held in the form of real-sector assets such as gold or real estate and not in cash and that
#Demonetisation
would not have any material impact on those assets....
Read more at:
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"India is not twitter"
.
@bainjal
rings the warning bells, loud and clear, for Congress and the 'united' opposition.
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Psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar has passed away. His eloquent writings about India/Indians have helped us all understand a complex, diverse society. A big loss. RIP.
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For all those of my friends who say they are 'middle class' -- in India that definition applies to the top 10%, if not 5%, of India's population. via
@livemint
h/t
@svaradarajan
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"Most telling of all were the mass pogroms that Indian Muslims have frequently endured since independence, some orchestrated by Congress itself, others by more extreme Hindu groups." -- Zareer Masani
h/t
@MikeDwyerMike
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Just when you thought the bad news had to turn! -- The Sun Stops Shining for Indian Property Mogul.
Great piece
@andymukherjee70
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Have you noticed that despite all the resources at
@narendramodi
disposal, it's
@RahulGandhi
who continues to be in the headlines, funny, no?
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Some relevant Qs
.
@NarendraModi
has not held a press conference yet - not even during a health crisis.
How does the Indian press hold up against its American counterpart?
@khanumarfa
's showcase, with questions from
@sohinichat
and
@sonia_26
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Just finished watching the BBC documentary on Modi, a powerful film that recounts the investigations into the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Much of it may be old hat for Indian audiences, but it needs to be seen as part of a need to bring light to state of Muslims in India today. 1/
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I was shopping for carpets in Tehran's central markets. A man walked into the carpet shop with two minders. I looked, and looked again. Then I walked up to him and said: "Mr Penn, I presume."
Sean Penn and I then sat down on the floor of the shop to smoke cigs and drink tea! 2005
Tell me the strangest interaction you've had with a celebrity.
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New hunger games in jobless Bharat - terrifying
#mintlongstory
about acute rural distress among the most vulnerable.
@sayantanbera
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Karan Thapar shows once again why he is India's best TV news interviewer. Bibek Debroy fails miserably in defending!
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Delhi people: do take time out to visit an excellent and exhaustive retrospective of Jogen Chowdhury's work.
Here's a portrait of Jimi Hendrix from '68
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"....it is not possible for me to recall all the meetings attended by me, various documents signed by me and various decisions taken by me in those meetings." -- Anil Ambani's "memory loss" during the 2G scam court hearings.
@bainjal
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