Pankaj Mishra: “Our public spaces have been invaded by a certain kind of noise, largely manufactured by trolls and ideologically driven fanatics, and they have made not just artistic creation, but life really difficult for a lot of people in India today.”

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/writer-pankaj-mishra-author-under-pressure-interview/article66254383.ece

“As book reviews disappear, so does intelligent public discussion about history, politics, and culture.”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/12/why-we-need-book-reviews/

In case Twitter dies, doing net practice for now.

@thequint How did they manage to snatch weapons from the cops? If nothing else, it is sheer incompetence of the cops.

How the groovy '60s ended.
https://lithub.com/what-happened-to-rock-and-roll-after-altamont/

@TheHindu When people welcome extra-judicial killings often labelled as "encounters", they are giving rise to the same forces that they are protesting against.

The punctuation barbarians have won.😩 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/apostrophe-society-shuts-down-because-ignorance-has-won-a4301391.html

Same old story. The reality of Make in India as opposed to the political grandstanding

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/no-major-make-in-india-defence-project-has-taken-off-in-6-yrs/articleshow/72326691.cms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defencenewsletter&type=defencenewsletter&ncode=175c5cbf19a05a2f065ab7ee8cbf7f9e

The Telegraph front page this morning is something to behold...

A sublime final statement #leonardcohen
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/22/leonard-cohen-thanks-for-the-dance-review-columbia?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-mp-pragya-thakur-nominated-to-parliamentary-consultative-committee-on-defence/article30035659.ece

This is the age where slogans like 'Make America great, again,' and 'Make India Hindu, again' have gained ground as a mark of populist ethno-nationalism.

https://thewire.in/society/hannah-arendt-and-the-new-nationalist-barbarians

Kejriwal is Modi without the bigotry.

True indeed. My thoughts too.

https://theprint.in/opinion/arvind-kejriwal-is-almost-exactly-the-same-package-that-modi-offers-minus-hindutva/321918/?amp#click=https://t.co/U2kQPrj0Z7

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For sure, this won't happen in Delhi. https://t.co/u3D9Jpk3mz?amp=1

@Unitx0 No politician has lost an election due to issues such as water, air, environment. Nothing will happen until these issues are mainstreamed by relentless public pressure.

Water shortage would be so severe in coming years that it may paralyze our #agriculture as well as our domestic consumption and no one seems serious,

No wonder elections would fought on water issue in in Indian future