Tickets are available for A LONDON LARK RISING, a promenade drama about the East India Company in the City of London. Highly recommended: ticketlab.app/events?search=…

"The history and people of the UK and India are deeply entwined." @COPDdoc reviews "A London Lark Rising", a play exploring the story of the people and places of the East India Company bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…

Of the many people influenced by #RabindranathTagore whose 165th birth anniversary is 2day, was Leonard Elmhirst, philanthropist & agriculturist who set up a rural development project in #Sriniketan in Bengal and a music and art school in #DartingtonHall, Devon. A treat to visit.

#Outdoor #walking #history #EastIndiaCompany #theatre #CityofLondon @sanjoy_kroy @DalrympleWill @NamitaGokhale_ Please get tickets asap . Afternoon shows are filling up but the morning and evening shows are beautiful ticketlab.app/events?search=…

Looking forward to seeing the playreading of my book #SpyPrincess dramatised for stage by the fabulous Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Do come along. 7.30 p.m 24 March #PlaygroundTheatre #NoorInayatKhan #WWII #SOE @TheHistoryPress @RAFMUSEUM @CWGC @kaminibanga theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/…

ticketlab.app/events?search=… Tickets are on sale for A London Lark Rising : Immersive theatre about the East India Company in the streets of the City of London @JaipurLitFest @sanjoy_kroy @DalrympleWill @SouthAsianA @shrabanibasu_

Return your unwanted Reform UK flyers to this address and it costs them £2.50 a pop. Pop this address on an envelope with the flyer in, and pop it in a post box! The more we return, the less they will send!

Come on @ClarksonsFarm1 take it down. I’m all for freedom of speech but not inciting or glorifying violence. And two of my colleagues have been murdered in my time as an MP.

Byeee ! Time to End X things Follow me and the show @sensorinet.bsky.social insta @sensorinet @anuyogaom @eastindiacompanydrama

Madhav Gadgil, the pre-eminent ecologist, has just passed away. He was a top-notch academic scientist, a tireless field researcher, a pioneering institution-builder, a great communicator, a firm believer in people’s networks and movements, and friend, philosopher, guide, and mentor to many for over five decades. Trained at the very best universities in modern science, he was at the same time a champion of traditional knowledge systems - especially in biodiversity conservation. His influence on public policy has been profound going back to his crucial role in the Save Silent Valley Movement in the late 70s and early 1980s. His intervention to protect forests in Bastar was crucial in the mid -80s. Later, he gave shape to a new direction to the Botanical Survey of India and the Zoological Survey of India. During 2009-2011, he chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel and wrote its report in a most sensitive and democratic manner that remains unmatched in both substance and style. He had studied biology at Harvard under E. O. Wilson, who had been hailed as Darwin’s Heir. Although inspired by Wilson, Madhav Gadgil - unlike most others who went to study abroad - came back to India to build its own research capacities and capabilities, guide students, engage with local communities, and make a difference to policy. In all of these he succeeded more than admirably. Luckily three years back he was able to bring out his delightful memoir, which is at once educative, entertaining, and enlightening. Madhav Gadgil’s life was devoted to scholarship in the noblest sense of the term. He will remain an iconic and inspirational figure. Speaking on a personal note, in the twenty-six months I was Environment Minister during May 2009- July 2011, I turned to him every other day for guidance and advice. And our conversations were not confined to matters related to ecology. We spoke often of his father Dhananjay Gadgil, one of India’s greatest economists and author of that classic The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent Times, first published in 1924. We would also speak of the intricacies of the Indian monsoon, since his wife Sulochana was an authority on the subject. Nation builders come in different forms and varieties. Madhav Gadgil was definitely one of them. Above all he had the hallmark of a true scholar— he was gentle, unassuming, and exuded empathy and humility behind which was a vast ocean of knowledge and learning.

My mums in hospital , treatment/ diagnostics so far. Chest x ray Ecg Blood tests Iv antibiotics Fluids Nebulisers Oxygen Plus 3 meals a day and refreshments Bill, when she leaves in, hopefully a few days £0.00 Thankyou NHS and all who work in it.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Martin Parr. A world without Martin’s gimlet eye observing its eccentricities is a much impoverished place. British photography has a great champion & we have lost a friend whose tireless enthusiasm ensured we never rested on our laurels.

And its publication day! There Is A Ghost in my Room, a memoir of living with the supernatural should be getting to stores today! Thank you @HarperCollinsIN @ASuitableAgency

Namita Gokhale, celebrated author of twenty-five books spanning fiction, mythology, travel, and Himalayan studies, has been a defining voice in Indian literature for over three decades. @NamitaGokhale_

Read on @LinkedInUK someone saying that the #10YearPlan is SO amazing that AI will replace doctors -thus workforce crisis will be a thing of the past. I also went to work today- and couldn't do clinic as all systems went down. No letters, results, phone numbers. Nada. Lovely.

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2019, in the #NHS A black child with #T1Diabetes had HALF the chance of getting access to a Continuous Glucose Monitor compared to a white child 2025, there exists no difference as re getting access And that? Is something we should ALL in the #T1D world be very proud of 💙

🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh, just 19 years old, is the Winner of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup! 🏆 With this incredible victory, she: ✨ Becomes a Grandmaster ✨ Secures a spot at the next Women’s Candidates #FIDEWorldCup @DivyaDeshmukh05

"We've got to the state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke." Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on the arrest of a man under the Terrorism Act for holding up a cartoon from the magazine during a protest against the ban of the group Palestine Action at the weekend. #BBCPM

Our Solidarity Polyclinic in Deir al-Balah, #Gaza, was treating 320 people every day. But Israel forced it to close yesterday. New forced displacement orders meant our team was given hours to evacuate, including patients, staff, and as many medicines and equipment as possible.