Garima Raghuvanshy

Filmmaker | Researcher | Writer

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

A fantastic film that had me mindblown.

https://t.co/kbdUTnpoYN

[Imperial Illusions @Independent_POV]

How did offshore finance take shape?

Oil companies were shifting profits offshore as early as the 1920s. Michael Hudson explains how the system worked in this deleted scene from The Spider’s Web.

Watch: https://t.co/5Dk9vHhlAz

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

Tell me this isn't true. Please.

Nope, sadly it is. TF are they shredding them for?!

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

Out now on @BBCiPlayer and coming soon to @PBS

#Space #Documentary #SpaceExploration #SpaceX #SpaceEconomy #Mars

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

Spent a wild year working on this and realising the new space race isn't science fiction 🔭

What happens next up there could genuinely reshape everything down here - from our ideas of wealth and ownership to the realities of power and geopolitics🌍

Strap in for the ride 🚀

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

the whole time, but for some reason we needed to see Quinn naked and on fours to get that she's obsessed with her job?

Screamed Male Gaze to me and blemished a riot of a comedy...

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

Did anyone else find it icky that the only character with a sex scene in #TheStudio was Quinn - a young woman? Matt's in a robe serving morning after coffee, and gets to mess up a perfectly good potential relationship because he's nuts about movies - while being fully clothed

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

@archineers1 🙏

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

From my work for @Sahapedia on Pandun ka kada
https://t.co/PLRjAV7Lrw

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

@archineers1 🙏😔

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

"As kath kuni architecture and its practitioners fade away, so does a deep knowledge of the mountains and how to live in them."

From September 2021: @GRaghuvanshy writes about preserving vernacular architecture in the Himalaya.

https://t.co/4Ah4JyzLYR

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

"As kath kuni architecture and its practitioners fade away, so does a deep knowledge of the mountains and how to live in them."

From September 2021: @GRaghuvanshy on preserving vernacular architecture in the Himalaya.

https://t.co/4Ah4JyAjOp

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

"As kath kuni architecture and its practitioners fade away, so does a deep knowledge of the mountains and how to live in them."

From September 2021: @GRaghuvanshy on preserving vernacular architecture in the Himalaya.
https://t.co/4Ah4JyzLYR

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

#Caste #Hindutva #India #casteism #Brahmanism #politics #elections #SanghParivar #BJP #RSS

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

On the explanatory adequacy of the Hindutva-as-Brahmanical model

https://t.co/dow90u4r4m

Article in Oñati Socio-Legal Series on whether Hindutva=Brahmanism is an accurate, productive description of the movement.

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

"As kath kuni architecture and its practitioners fade away, so does a deep knowledge of the mountains and how to live in them."

@GRaghuvanshy on preserving vernacular architecture in the Himalaya:
https://t.co/4Ah4JyRmQp

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

75🇮🇳✨

#Indiaat75

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

But on the eve of that momentous occasion, here's to the hope that our generation rediscovers India's forgotten wisdom 🇮🇳🙏

#Partition1947 #PartitionHorrorsRemembrance #IndiaAt75 #IndependenceDay2022

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

75 years on, the unspeakable pain and suffering of India's senseless partition continue to fester like an open wound.

My grandfather grew up in 1940s Haryana. His stories tell me that it didn't have to be this way.
https://t.co/pyxKp4WTmT

[Garima Raghuvanshy @GRaghuvanshy]

15th August is a day for celebration - a day to bask in the astounding achievements of our country and to bow our heads to the generations that laid down their lives to give us our freedom.