Hi @ZohranKMamdani! Thank you for being a soft boy with values that go hard 🩷. Wrote about you for @IndianExpress

This needs to be said out aloud every few weeks.

Where are Hindi bylines? Why eminent Hindi names are all TV/YouTube anchors; they merely lift an English report and read it out? Why don't they report on foreign policy, business deals, mining allocations, economy etc? The Meme Republic of Hindi Media. https://t.co/rfIwVwpMiQ

Good day to replug this chat with Mahmood Mamdani on the language of hate that leads to real-world violence. This was at @themediarumble four years ago. Next we should be able to get the New York city Mayor :) Radio Rwanda: Hate news that led to Genocide

Incredible son of incredible parents: Prof. Mahmoud Mandan and famed director Mira Nair. And incredible historian Dalrymple’s interview here is a must-watch.

Election results reveal more about the citizens than the candidates. They mirror the hopes and frustrations of ordinary people... What they desire, what they expect and the kind of nation they wish to build for themselves and for future generations. But when citizens stop asking

American culture casts a powerful legitimating shadow over Indian society: from crony capitalists & media lackeys laundering plunder through ‘free market’ dogma to the post 9/11 rationalization of surveillance laws & communal bigotry as ‘national security.’ Mamdani win matters.

The next mayor of New York City, everyone:

𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞. I have no words to express what I feel right now — only gratitude.

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. https://t.co/7tewUOBm0A

November 14th. https://t.co/aUnU7N7M41

Pretty thin year from Tamil cinema (my best of list has only 5 Tamil films out of 31 so far and it's a stretch) but Varsha Bharath's Bad Girl is truly one of the finest from this year. Streaming on Hotstar now. Review, https://t.co/82Y5saAPVe

साल दर साल दिल्ली की हवा ज़हरीली होती जा रही है, लेकिन BJP सरकारें बस बहाने बदलती हैं। अब तो केंद्र और दिल्ली - दोनों जगह उनकी ही सरकार है। अब बहाने नहीं, जनता को साफ़ हवा चाहिए। https://t.co/oMeUdoVvhK

We at @newslaundry have been pursuing reports on North India (especially Delhi's) foul air all year long. #FightToBreath. Many have supported us, many have predictably woken up now. We need to do this ALL THE TIME & try to shame the shameless in govt. https://t.co/E0vRL7mqVL

Its inhabitants are healthy & robust… many traders & comfort-loving people have chosen it as their home. In no other city of Hindustan can be seen so many men of Khurasan, as have taken up their residence here.”

Came across this flattering 17th-c. description of Patna by a Gujarat-born attendant of the Mughal governor of Bengal: “Patna is a refined city. By reason of its air, it is a place of perpetual spring. Its water is perfect in taste & agreeable to the stomach (1/2)

Hey @NetflixIndia @AnushkaSharma @CleanSlateFilms , your move now!! Come on get the film out. It’s a gem that deserves to be seen by one and all!! @prosit_roy ‘s #ChakdaExpress must be released!!

Arre someone tell Jay Shah ki Jhulan Goswami NF film Chakda Express ko release karwaye. This is the perfect time and it's a very good film. Easily Anoushka's best.

The one column every Indian should read, in which @Ram_Guha reflects on the PhD thesis of Dr @UmarKhalidJNU—scholar with whom he shares both an interest in the social history of adivasis during colonial India and a commitment to the equality of citizens in modern India—and

#CallForDemocraticProtest against Air Pollution Emergency. People of Delhi please organise peacefully in large numbers and save your city. Save yourselves. Save your children. Save your parents, your loved ones. This is a bi-partisan issue. People from all walks of life and