Hello privatised Air India this is how a proper international airline functions. Full dinner service on an Emirates flight departing at 16.15 from
Delhi to Dubai, a flight that is shorter than Bangkok-Delhi on which you refuse to serve meals in the evening .
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Gujarat presents a remarkable example of language tolerance where Hindi peacefully coexists with Gujarati, the primary language and mother tongue of majority of its citizens. ⁦Nistula Hebbar⁩ ⁦The Hindu⁩

Population shifts impact politics. It’s happening in Kerala right now, and the BJP hopes to find a toehold in the social quicksand. Congress is threatened by a Christian-Muslim dissonance.

Heartiest Congratulations The Hindu

Malini Parthasarathy Suresh Nambath Nistula Hebbar Kallol Bhattacherjee Dinakar Peri Sobhana K Nair Vikas Vasudeva

A year after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the clean-up of records has brought down the total number of violence-related FIRs from over 11,000 to around 3,000, a govt source told The Hindu. Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said that the people should be united and there should…

Watch | For this week's epsiode of Worldview, Suhasini Haidar reports from the United States amidst the ongoing student protests. Is foreign policy a key issue in the US presidential election and what does it mean for India? Catch the full episode of Worldview on May 3rd.

‘If only his politics were as good as his economics.’ You have heard this liberal argument. But the free market slogan, “good economics is good politics”, works in the inverse in the Hindutva scheme of things, as “good politics is good economics”. The Hindu

“Everyone thought he was dead.” First sentence, The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster (1947-2024)

#AI and Your #Electoral Fortune

Amidst this election season and the exponential growth in usage of #AI 📈in enhancing campaigning strategies and beyond, IGPP came up with an idea of gaining #insights into how aware are #election contesting candidates about AI as a technology,…

Shiv Sena (UBT) emerges as surprise “Right choice” in tough field among Muslims in Maharashtra - I write - trib.al/n3XfzR9

Mandira Nayar’s lovely review of Never Never Land opened up new windows for me …

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#NeverNeverLand Speaking Tiger mandira nayar THE WEEK

Replug: BJP is not on the ballot in Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, well at least so far, and yet it dominates the narrative here. As EC agrees to defer the polls here, do watch Peerzada Ashiq explain this curious phenomenon

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“The BJP and the Mahayuthi will have to work hard, and we may even go down a few seats from the last time, but we will get the largest share,” - says senior NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader, Chhagan Bhujbal to me- thehindu.com/elections/lok-…

Watch | In this interview with abhinay deshpande/అభినయ్ देशपांडे, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray says their fight is not against any particular leader but against BJP’s divisive approach. Watch the full interview here:
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Watch the story of glass in Firozabad
The Hindu

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“The BJP and the Mahayuthi will have to work hard, and we may even go down a few seats from the last time, but we will get the largest share,” - says senior NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader, Chhagan Bhujbal to me- thehindu.com/elections/lok-…

In this week's #PoliticalLine newsletter, Varghese K George writes about the many meanings of ‘400 plus’, and the ‘399 trap’ for the #BJP , and more.
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Imaginary tales create real genocide.
Sorry rationalists.

Sexual abuse and exploitation is NOT a sex scandal.

The Lost Decade is one of the six books recommended

What to read about India’s economy economist.com/the-economist-…