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Reluctant partners (opens the original)
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Many years ago, at a party, I was introduced to the India head of a large multinational Private Equity firm (he was an Indian), and his expat wife. As we got talking I realized that the man and I were of the same age, and that he had studied at one of India’s top engineering colleges, an IIT, one to which many of my friends had gone. And so, like people usually do in parties when they meet someone new, I started rattling off the names of my friends and asked him whether he knew any one of them.
Creators, short videos and real drama (opens the original)
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The real issues — aesthetic, hygiene, civic, and intellectual — with short-form videos present both a demand-side problem and a supply-side one.By some estimates, there are in excess of 60 million short-form videos being created every day, with up to a third of these being generated by or using the help of AI. And together, these generate upward of a few hundred billion views.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dz3C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
Delhi, from one mishap to another (opens the original)
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In a 2025 essay marking five years of the pandemic, I wrote about how sometimes the biggest regret for a journalist is not being wrong about something, but being right about it. I have a feeling my colleague and the head of HT’s data journalism team Roshan Kishore may be coming around to agreeing with this. Roshan — he writes the best column on the political economy of India; titled Terms of Trade, it appears every week on hin
Fame, jobs and disaster (opens the original)
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Fame can be heady. That’s the first thought that came to me as I saw yet another video of Tukaram Mundhe (IAS) being cheered and feted. It was an event where he was to speak; some people wanted to shake his hand; others were clapping him on the back as he walked past; and still others wanted selfies. And Mundhe was lapping it all up.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJlt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-
On the subject of nationalism (opens the original)
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India turned 79 last Saturday, the country’s first Independence Day (it was its 80th) after it decided that both the national song and the national anthem — yes, India has both — would be sung at the beginning and end of government functions. It also decided that the full version of Vande Mataram, all six stanzas, would be considered the national song, not just the first two stanzas as was previously the norm. Give
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