Ananya Jain

A journey of an unknown.

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

Cared too much about the market going up or down?
Well.. democracy? Known as the world’s largest democracy?
Or Mockracy?

[PenPencilDraw @penpencildraw]

Public order. #Jantarmantar

[MANJUL @MANJULtoons]

#cartoon #Vikas https://t.co/HNiKf2MEdC

[fuck @sorrymoom]

La romantización de la "salud mental" en redes nos está vendiendo la idea de que sanar es tomar café en tazas lindas y escribir en un diario, cuando en realidad "sanar" es un proceso asqueroso, violento, solitario dónde eres tú peleando con tu mente

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A cartoon by Natalie Horberg.

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

When you raid a store of goodwill your predecessors have left behind for you, it feels really great. As if a new era has opened. Until the store becomes empty and everyone realises that you created virtually nothing and was simply coasting along on the achievements of your predecessors. In foreign affairs, in economy, in institutional credibility. The crash that follows can be very hurting emotionally.

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

Just thinking aloud. No claims made.

This is a Time Magazine Cover from 2011. I reposted @RahulSeeker's tweet yesterday.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this cover.

15 years ago, the world was watching two countries and genuinely could not decide which one would lead the future.

One of them does now. The other has spent the last decade and a half fighting over whose god is bigger.

I am writing this as a common citizen who grew up in this country, who continues to believe in what it is capable of, and who finds it genuinely dificult to explain the drastic economic downturn in these past years through poor governance alone.

India in 2011 was a country that had grown at consistently high rates for two decades, had a young demographic profile, and was positioned as a genuine superpower in the making.

We were leading the IT revolution at a time when the world had just figured out that technology was the new currency of power. An Indian spotted abroad was asked one common question: "Do you work in IT?"

It wasn't a stereotype so much as a signal. The world had noticed. It had clocked which direction we were moving in, and it had started to take us seriously. We weren't just a large country anymore. We were a country with momentum. And momentum, in geopolitics, is the most threatening thing of all.

And then there was the one thing that makes powerful nations genuinely nervous. India is an independent nuclear power. Not a dependent state. Not a country whose arsenal exists because someone else permitted it. Ours. On our terms. Answering to nobody.

A large, young, fast-growing, technologically ambitious, independently nuclear nation with a democratic mandate and a civilisational confidence. That is not a country you want going fully unchecked.

Putting on my tin foil hat, here is the thought I cannot entirely shake: that what has happened to India over the last many years is not simply the consequence of bad governance, corruption, or misfortune. (That of course, is a very real issue laughing in our faces every single day)

That some portion of it has been engineered, or at minimum exploited, by actors with a strategic interest in ensuring that India never becomes what it was projected to become.

There are powers that have done this before. They don't need to invade a country. They just need to find a wound in it and not let it heal - through tools of debt, dependency, tariffs, and narratives shaped by controlled media or manipulated social media algorithms. And then stay out of the way while it consumes itself.

"Just keep the wound open", as they say.

Mismanagement of a population's growth trajectory, and its basic needs which is this consistent and directional, feels almost scripted.

Let me also say - the fractures in Indian society are not new. Religious tension, caste hierarchy, linguistic division: these have existed for centuries. No government manufactured them from scratch.

A country whose population has been allowed to be preoccupied with questions of communal identity, whose minorities are economically anxious and politically marginalised, and whose civil society is increasingly reluctant to speak plainly, is a country whose productive capacity is diminished.

A nation fighting itself cannot look outward with coherence.

They couldn't tame the dragon. So they slowly fed the elephant poisoned food. Enough to keep it from breaking its own shackles. Enough for it to be grateful to be fed. The elephant didn't die. That was never the plan. A dead elephant attracts attention. It is still standing - tall above others, swaying, looking busy, occasionally making noise, hoping to get better, some day.

Someone needed only one new superpower to emerge. Not two. Someone did not want a second China.

And someone got exactly what they needed.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Raghu Rai really knew how to show the poetry of everyday life. Rest in peace🕊️

Readers at Church Gate railway station. Mumbai, India, 1995

[Rashmika @Rashmi_Parmesan]

Rip, Raghu Rai (1942-2026)

Churchgate station, Mumbai - 1996
Vidisha - diyas in Ganga, Varanasi - 2000
Sensuous baby, Tripura - 1970
Marine drive, Mumbai - 1994

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

The camera and the film roll - what a fitting tribute to legendary photographer Raghu Rai.

Rest well, sir!

[LINKIN PARK @linkinpark]

Happy Birthday Chester ❤️

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

High tide.

Mumbai, June 2025.

[Tashi Tobgyal 🐾 @tashitobgyal]

"If a Photographer is not there, there is no Image" #sebastiaosalgado
Photograph: 1984, In the Sahel.

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

You wouldn’t find a better T-shirt to start your 2025!

[jugal @joogasama]

LFG https://t.co/rYgFaQ8Umn

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

So proud of our boys! ♥️

[ICC @ICC]

Emotion. Elation. Joy. 🇮🇳😍

#T20WorldCup | #SAvIND

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

One of the greatest things about the LS results - Godi Media propaganda not only proved to be a diminishing returns investment but ended up denting the media’s credibility in their core fanbase due to the vile-stupid choice by channel heads of backing the fake exit polls. The final, long nail.

Low IQ + Evil isn’t a good long term strategy. And we are lucky that they can’t change any of these tendencies. अक़्ल और नीयत इतनी आसानी से नहीं बदलती।

As many have pointed out already - this number of 240 would have been (probably) below 200 without the support of a totally pliable media. But hope this verdict is the beginning of media’s search for conscience over easy TRPs and meaning over noise. (I know hoping too much lol).

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

इक़बाल। So beautifully explained by @_YogendraYadav.

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

This morning feels so good!

[Ananya Jain @AnanyaJain]

Not that bad a week after all! ❤️

[adidas UK @adidasUK]

Marching ON, ON, ON 🔴