Look what the mail brought in today! #HajiPublicSchool #volunteer #BreakYear Thank you @imsabbah It was an honour to teach your kids.

What do you see when you look at the faces of people affected by an ecological disaster? Hopefully, yourself.

What a distressing sight.

Do NOT weaponise our trauma for your politics of communal hatred. I mourn for the evident damage this man has caused to the cause of Kashmir and the fight for Muslim dignity in this country.

An excellent guide to all the long weekends this year and how you could possibly spend them. (Unless you're a journo :/ ) Weekend Planner 2025: Plan Your Perfect Weekend Activities, Ideas & Places hindustantimes.com/weekend-p…

A lyricist, Padma Awardee, Sangeet Natak Akademi Winner, Multiple National award winner is my molester. He was named by 3 women, including me, in front of the media. He gets platformed, protected by major Tamilnadu parties - Something I have repeated for 6 years. I told others over the years that I had been molested by Vairamuthu. Silverscreen did an in-depth interview about his Predatory ways then. Given below. It is long form. Majority Tamil society, my own music fraternity shamed, abused me in an orchestrated manner. Yet - despite being an open secret and what he is - Tamil Cinema Industry banned me from working in retaliation by the foul mouthed President of the Dubbing Union, Mr Radha Ravi - who was then in the DMK and is now in the BJP. That brings us to Radha Ravi. This case is still ongoing. silverscreenindia.com/music/…

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.

.@BatulMukhtiar 's short film 'Mumu Shelley', is up on #HTPremium. It's where us lovers of short films catch a new one each month, curated by the often bemused .@sanjuktasharma whose keen 👁 alone can find 💎s like these

From the Instagram of UNICEF spokesman James Elder:

One flat in 461, and all the paranoia of the heroic majority is unleashed.

Can scarcely believe this has happened and that #HPop has traveled this far. Gratitude. ❤️ @swatichopra1 @HarperCollinsIN @jilpanz @LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver

Very chuffed to be on this jury with other eminent writers. Thank you for the opportunity, @rainbowawardsin

I have a list of story ideas to commission and I want to match them with kickass reporters—those who know how to get information out from anywhere. Who can get inside a world, find sources, documents, data, and whatever else it takes to tell a fair and accurate story. At The Plank, the magazine I announced earlier this month, we are most interested in questions-led journalism—where the story is discovered in the process of reporting. This requires curious, tenacious, open-minded reporters who can stay on a story for a while to pull off a great magazine piece. If this sounds like you, and you work freelance, and you have the bandwidth to take on a (slightly ambitious) reporting project, then please get in touch. I am at samarthbansal@pm.me. Send me the investigative feature you are most proud of. Your work is the filter. (We pay Rs 40k flat fee per story.) Putting out this open call to find talented reporters beyond my immediate network. I've done this kind of work, and I'll guide you through the process of reporting and writing. (It'll be fun and rewarding.) PS: List of ideas includes investigations on food safety and regulation, revisionist history/anatomy of a scam(s), home buyers and RERA, and a wide multi-lens exploration of environmental issues. And of course, feel free to pitch your own ideas as well! :)

Business Standard analyses the same data as the PM's Economic Advisory Council and concludes that India has added around five Hindus for every one Muslim since 1950. The PM EAC put out old data with a new spin during the elections to polarise elections with help from TV channels

The National Green Tribunal took suo-motu cognisance of the @IndianExpress report which highlighted that over 21,000 trees were felled in Mumbai to make way for various infra projects between 2018-23. The NGT has sought responses from #BMC, #MPCB for the depleting green cover.

Wrote this explainer on the science of why bees sting, which ones do, and what happens in the human body when they do. It's behind the paywall but if you want to read it, DM me and I will share screenshots. hindustantimes.com/science/w…

Particularly interesting finding on how women are less restricted in electoral enrolment compared to other political participation.

Read @kumar_rithika's terrific essay on the rise in women voters in India in today's @htTweets--the 7th installment in our #IndiaElects2024 collaboration. hindustantimes.com/india-new…

Terms of Trade: The challenge to Indian democracy requires a more sincere and humble engagement rather than angry grandstanding without any political accountability by the self-appointed guardians of democracy in India hindustantimes.com/opinion/t…

My sincere gratitude to @amritananda_c, who worked with me tirelessly over the last year, while the #MarriageEquality case was being heard in the Supreme Court, writing memos to the @INCIndia & @ProfCong leadership, familiarizing the Party about the various issues at stake. 🙌🏾