This isn’t a review but a must-read ideological critique on the propaganda film #Dhurandhar from today's The Hindu. Adding a fact with Proof - it wasn’t the Kandahar hijackers who called “Hindus cowards” but the RSS Sangh who labelled the pilot & the passengers as cowards.

Bangalore AQI this morning is 453, time for Bangalore to get entertained and stay mute.

दोस्तो, शाद रहो तुमको खुदा को सौंपा ‌कैसर बाग़ जो है उसको सबा को सौंपा ‌हमने अपने दिले नाज़ुक को जफ़ा को सौंपा ‌दरो दीवार पे हसरत से नज़र करते हैं ‌‌रुख़्सत ऐ अहले वतन, हम तो सफ़र करते हैं - Wajid Ali Shah

Some week, I will pick up this pet project of creating an exhaustive index of episodes and topics on the Empire: World History on Spotify. It's extremely tough to look for episodes related to one topic. Extremely tough if want to revisit old episode. CC: William Dalrymple, anita anand

Something particularly ridiculous about Pahlavi monarchists: a family of nobodies, put on the throne in a British coup, who lasted two generations before being thrown out.

Me: i vibe-coded an app! Parimal Bajpai: vibe coding is like driving a tesla on autopilot in a wide open field and thinking you know how to drive

This week, everybody is an Iran expert on Twitter.

Content creators on Instagram should thank the Republic Day Parade for giving them 2.5 hours of content, which they will repeatedly show us for the next one year. Millennials have been watching the parade in its entirety since childhood!

Never forget how Cartier keeps giving stolen Indian jewellery to white celebrities, but when Diljit Dosanjh asked for the diamond necklace of Maharaja of Patiala, they refused.

Revisiting this after the new budget announcements. Nirmala Sitharaman Office has made it much easier to operate a US incorporated co. The penalties for transfer pricing (every YC India founder knows this pain) is being converted to a fee. Immunity towards misreporting. Immunity from

Dear Nirmala Sitharaman, The situation with people caught in debt traps is getting scarier every day. Moneylife Foundation receives 4-5 desperate requests for counselling from Aparna Ramachandra . Ideally, the ReserveBankOfIndia, with vast resources in #DEAF (Rs 78,000 crore+), ought to offer free counselling; it has

What a lovely anecdote.

Chashme Buddoor (Old One)

Watching the Indian cinema masterpiece Mirch Masala starring Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah yet again, thanks to Instagram Reel, which reminded me again of this movie. It is available for free on YouTube