I am the writer Omar Hamad, and I want to trade my library for a sack of flour.

Think times are bad? Don’t worry, the illustrious Thomas Friedman has written an advice column for struggling unknown Zohran Mamdani.

"The irrelevance of the street dog’s life is emblematic of what we feel about things that are not privately owned... As long as we are not personally affected by all that happens on the outside, it does not bother us." The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/opinion/interc…

Coordinated and repetitive responses, very familiar to those in India.

Richard Eaton, doyen of early modern South Asian history, writes “The profound legacies of the Mughal Empire, forged through a remarkable fusion of Persian and Sanskrit worlds, are now under siege from a mythical vision of India’s past”. engelsbergideas.com/essays/indias-…

Whole world is really just going to sit back and let this happen

So the BMC will pay over Rs 2,000 crores to clear the Deonar landfill — and then hand it over to Adani.

Indian Express report: Last year, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee spent Rs 15.09 lakh on air pollution monitoring and Rs 3.6 crore on "advertising and printing".

As someone who’s been reading virtually nothing else but Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels for the last month, I have high expectations for this TV adaptation. Mixed feelings about the lead, but early days yet. variety.com/2025/tv/news/j…

I'm impressed: it takes some doing to mention a The Booker Prizes-shortlisted title and get both the author's first 𝑎𝑛𝑑 last name wrong. thecritic.co.uk/a-crisis-of-se…

Thread 🧵 Malini wrote to me saying she wanted to tell the story of Operation Karregutta. Home Minister Amit Shah had claimed it was the biggest operation ever against Maoists and a successful one in which no armed personnel had been hurt. 1/n

Nowadays, even doing nothing has to be done for the sake of winning a prize. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

“I estimate that at least 2 million Americans alone died from using J&J products”: Gardiner Harris, author of ‘The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson’.

Favourite game of autocratic leaders and their followers: fickleball. You can keep changing the rules to suit your convenience.

Where the fuck is the world?

Shocking!

The cocooning of wealthy Indians continues, even as public spaces decay and disintegrate. bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.