Austin Coutinho

i tell stories and look at art for a living

[Austin Coutinho @AustinReds07]

the impossible made possible by ethanol gadkari

[Abhishek Kothari 🇮🇳 @kothariabhishek]

News report:
#Pakistan eyes sugar exports to #India as mills face surplus stocks, liquidity pressure

A senior representative of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association has called on the government to permit the export of up to 1.2 million tonnes of surplus sugar to India, arguing that the move could reduce excess inventories, improve the financial position of mills and generate as much as $600 million in foreign exchange, The News reported.

https://t.co/dWq2xPs1FA

[Mal @UtdMaI]

Marcus Rashford goes to Barcelona, wins the league, puts up 28 G/A, finishes as their third-highest contributor and lifts two trophies.

Then he comes back to England and the same old pundits instantly start picking him apart again.

At some point you have to ask whether they’re analysing him fairly or just waiting for him to fail.

[devraj @devisnawtok]

I had the same experience with them during my internship in 2024. Used to be one of my fav journalist organisations for the work they produced, and for having a spine. Pretty ironic, i definitely learnt it the hard way.

Suchitra Vijayan offered me a full time job (continued)

[the reporters' collective @reporters_co]

2. In Delhi, AAP cries censorship but in Punjab, it uses the same playbook. The party has claimed copyright over material it doesn’t even own, including Sri Akal Takht press releases, State assembly photos, and AI images. @shivnarayan01 investigates.

https://t.co/Z9HfVJs5V7

[Karuna Nundy @karunanundy]

Without a hash value, it is impossible to tell if the agencies have planted anything after seizure.

[wu-tang chad @thewittyblessed]

one of the most nonsensical twist ending in recent history

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer.

The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices

[Vinteoito @_vinteoito]

Eu fico muito puto que deram o maior spoiler do filme anos antes do lançamento só pq não estavam conseguindo fazer nada de bom

[Focus Features @FocusFeatures]

Kinda "chic"?

[Ayush Saxena @Witty_Ayush]

“Dr. Singh had the wisdom to rope in people of equal intellectual calibre. Unfortunately, his successor followed the same principle!”

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

The Indian democracy. A Muslim driver allegedly lynched to death by Kanwariyas. And the Indian state is making sure that they are given a heroes welcome everyone

[Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval]

Folks who are STILL platforming Seth and Iyer-Mitra don't get to pretend like they're on some higher moral ground.

[Nidhi Suresh @NidhiSuresh_]

There’s a lot for newsrooms to think through, but a little self-awareness might be in order before calling out the doublespeak of others. She should be the last person lecturing anyone on humility, arrogance, or a God complex.

[Angana Chakrabarti @AnganaCk]

This has taken me years to write. I'm supposed to be "grateful" for the opportunities @ThePrintIndia gave me. It was also so very, very toxic.

The whole newsroom has always been on tenterhooks, about what one man thinks.

Someone recently told me he's "banned" friendships in the office — no one is supposed to talk to each other beyond work. Even in my time there, I watched editors bend themselves to appease his whims, at the cost of everyone else.

Forget about guidance and mentorship, they have never want any collegiality.

During the pandemic, they generously hired cabs to ferry us into work. The same man devised his own ways to "keep the virus out": pointing standing fans at the windows, banning shoes in the office.

Then there was the time they pushed me out after sending me to the Northeast, applied a big list of impossible conditions, told me not to do a story because I was "inexperienced" and didn't know anything about the region. It became the first story I reported after I quit: https://t.co/dbw0Hn6yxd

Later, I learned they'd hired someone specifically to keep tabs on "productivity".

We're told to be grateful for the chance — it's Delhi, these are editors with decades behind them. But work is extracted from us while we're made to feel like parasites for wanting anything back. Respect at your workplace isn't a big ask.

[Vivek Gupta | Fat Loss Coach @vivekguptaa]

For the smooth movement of Kanwariyas, they dig up perfectly good roads across the entire stretch.

Eventually, that little hole becomes a massive pothole, and the authorities have to rebuild the road.

Win- Win situation for babus and contractors.

[Deeptiman Tiwary @DeeptimanTY]

This post shows how ideological cohesion works: shared causes, friendships and loyalties slowly turn principles into negotiable things. The righteous are not immune to power; they simply experience it in different forms.

[Tara @Ta_ra_das]

My alma mater @IndiaToday has re-upped the cover story Kunal Pradhan and I had done on Tarun Tejpal at the time. Do read it. Well worth all the friends I lost for writing it. Many of them friends, colleagues, even the roommate of the victim, several still woke thought leaders today, who condemned us for calling it what it was. TBH Kunal had the clarity and I had my doubts as well, it was a complex call. I am glad the victim stands vindicated by the courts today. Must not have been an easy journey for her. I honestly, lack her courage. More power to her.

https://t.co/sdHjJuBmSI

[एना Maria 🌈 🇵🇸 @annaverbee]

Newslaundry has some seriously shady people

[Madhusree Goswami @Madhusree24]

I have never seen a filthier capital city than Delhi. Apart from the diplomatic enclave, most of the city is littered with trash. Everywhere. I'm shocked to see the kind of trash that litters even posh places in South Delhi when I get dropped home from work after 11 pm. What is