Editor, Hindustan Times; comic-book freak; amateur birder; Mint-ex. sukumar.ranganathan@hindustantimes.com
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The HT newsroom put out a bunch of specials to mark India@75. For starters, there’s 1947: The road to Indian independence, a podcast anchored by Prashant Jha, featuring experts such as William Dalrymple, Rajmohan Gandhi, Srinath Raghavan, and Durba Ghosh. open.spotify.com/show/2PLudY…
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This week’s newsletter: TN and West Bengal politics; AI and jobs; and Goose’s Europe tour. substack.com/@hted/note/p-20…
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The storm must have confused this peahen that’s now strutting around the garden much to the dog’s dismay
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This week’s newsletter : on CBSE’s botched OSM rollout, L’affaire Gymkhana, liberals and liberalism, and Sonny Rollins open.substack.com/pub/hted/p…
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India needs more capital flows and FDI is central to that imperative. Has the partial easing of PN3 rules reopened the case for Chinese FDI? Is Chinese capital a risk to be kept out, or a tool that can create higher capital flows and lower deficit? Here's what the data shows.
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May 17
‘Love, deceit, murder’: Mystery hornbill drama grips Delhi’s Lodhi Garden
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Drama continues at Lodhi Garden with an Oriental Pied Hornbill trying to feed Grey Hornbill chicks
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May 9
When Suvendu Adhikari takes oath at its 1st BJP CM today, WB will see the beginning of one of the most important chapters of its history.
It is foolish to deny history when it changes, but hubris to think of events, no matter how big, as the end of history.
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This week’s newsletter — how luck keeps us all alive; poll data; and some birding stuff, of course. open.substack.com/pub/hted/p…
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May 6
Lost in SIR debate: Muslim attrition from TMC
Muslims on the electoral roll, rather than those who were possibly disenfranchised because of SIR, might have played a bigger role in the TMC’s poor showing this time.
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Did SIR exercise win West Bengal for the BJP? The short answer: no. The long one: read on (warning: there are scatter plots and correlation coefficients)
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I know some people have used victory margins vs deletions and arrived at the opposite conclusion — but that’s just bad logic. Again, a reading of the piece above will explain why
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Over 15 % of the vote is counted in West Bengal but the trend is clear enough to call. With a median vote share difference of 7.5 percentage points, the BJP leads in 169 to the TMC’s 92. This lead (with trends in 32 seats to come) could see the BJP ending with over 200 seats.
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With over 20% of votes counted, safe to call Tamil Nadu now. TVK leads in 107 with a vote share of 34.1%. DMK is third with 52 leads and a vote share of 31.1%. AIADMK has held its own with 74 leads and a share of 31.1%. Clear anti- establishment vote
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Should have called Assam earlier. Median vote share difference of 23 percentage points between BJP and Congress. BJP leading in 97 to Congress’ 26 with 18.4% votes counted. But done deal.
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