Across India, over 100 govt hospitals built with public money, with ~30,000 beds and over 1,400 acres of public land in prime areas are being handed over to private entities in the name of PPP PPP=PPT(People Pay Twice)-once to build health infra and then to pay for pvt healthcare

Excellent advice for journalists feeling tempted to use LLMs. Just to test it, I used Gemini to generate a summary for a Google Meets interview I did. Was impressed by the nuance but there were also grave errors in details. Thankfully I'd written my notes & listened closely.

Shut up about the unshaken spirit!

This is how a reporter who has a deep understanding of the various intersecting politics in central India writes about the government's anti-Maoist crackdown. #mustread by Malini Subramaniam. reporters-collective.in/trc/the-claims…

James Bryce writes in 'The American Commonwealth', on the role of the press in a democracy. "Selfishness, injustice, cruelty, tricks & jobs of all sorts, shun the light. To expose them is to defeat them..." The rankling sore in the body politics, when disclosed, is half destroyed

Every few years, this ridiculous panic about citizenship & being robbed of rights (still sadly emerging only from citizenship alone & not humanity) is shameful & unnecessary in a country that doesn't really have THAT MANY refugees or illegal immigrants that threaten us.

Evergreen

Mass grave with over 100 skeletons in Sri Lanka brings up old wounds straitstimes.com/asia/south-asi…

Very important to keep BCCI out of RTI ambit. #NationalInterest

Stories of #Partition that add nuance to increasingly nationalistic and hostile state narratives are more important than ever. Debarshi Dasgupta & I worked on this The Straits Times feature & found memories, objects & suppressed facts that teach crucial lessons straitstimes.com/multimedia/gra…

Why are so many media publications lying about Israel? "The reporters, as well as their editors and publishers, fear becoming targets of Israel and the powerful Israel lobby. There is no cost for betraying the Palestinians. They are powerless." #mustread x.com/ChrisLynnHedge…

How India has regressed in my lifetime. When I was a kid and there was a lunar or solar eclipse, The Times of India was at the forefront of promoting scientific narratives. Debunking superstition. 1990s ToI had standards. Cut to 2025. Look at this trad bullshit! Yuck!

In a democracy, a "national" party doesn't seek votes by demonising a religious community, it offers representation to all. Also, the Election Commission would know what to do about an Ad like this.

#MyModiStory I used to be on a BJP-affiliated WhatsApp group where one day a Google document was shared. It contained a bank of tweets for different people to post. Since the document was public, I was able to edit it and make small changes, like turning “Working for middle

Congrats to all for being freed from the tyrannical #GST imposed by the previous regime!

I'll never understand how people are more inspired by the poor rich celebrities who give in to pressure from the govt, rather than those who dare to stand up to the oppressive forces. #ModiAt75 It matters who our role models are.