Bobby Ghosh

Journalist, formerly at @Business, @Time, @qz, @CNN. Food, football & foreign affairs; not necessarily in that order.
Substack: Ghoshworld

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

Would be great if a major Indian newspaper had a tracker for.... Oh, wait.

Lynchings, migrant deaths, student suicides: 20 things for which India's government doesn't have data https://t.co/44eEEYdAi0

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

This is a fantastic get for @guardian. I highly recommend reading @NihaMasih

[Niha Masih @NihaMasih]

Personal news: Thrilled to share that I'll be writing a newsletter for @guardian. I've long admired their journalism and I'm delighted to helm this new platform for thoughtful journalism and essential conversations on India. Here's the sign up link: https://t.co/zWZg98LBn4

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

My latest, for @TIME: Tehran initially turned Hormuz into an instrument of defense, closing the strait to make the conflict unaffordable for everyone else. Somewhere in the past five months, the instrument became the objective.

https://t.co/pOWhBixcxz

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

Trump, June 10th, on Graham Platner: “He’s a thug…a big-time thug…worse than any human being that’s ever run for office, probably." 

https://t.co/KzTVvQzb1g

Trump, today, on Max Miller:

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

My latest, for @TIME: Tehran initially turned Hormuz into an instrument of defense, closing the strait to make the conflict unaffordable for everyone else. Somewhere in the past five months, the instrument became the objective.

https://t.co/pOWhBixcxz

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

No trip to Edinburgh is complete without the sighting of the Rabindranath Tagore statue in the quiet corner of the Sandeman House Garden. It was Tagore’s vision to create an India open to all religions & races that today’s youth is trying to restore.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

BREAKING: English FA to write to Infantino withdrawing previous letter of support for his re-election.
Full story soon on @TimesSport

[Reuters @Reuters]

One of the world's largest illegal gambling networks sends millions in crypto through a tiny office in Dubai. The network is fronted by two flashy Iranian influencers with high-level government connections, and it’s fueling a $4 billion sanctions dodge https://t.co/zst6IBLrwn

[Lahib Higel لهيب هيجل @LahibHigel]

After last week’s Saudi/US retaliatory strikes on Iraq’s ”resistance factions”, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria warn Baghdad that they will also retaliate if targeted.

In @ForeignPolicy I discuss Zaidi’s limited options to prevent Iraq from becoming a battleground in the regional war.

[Anup Kaphle 🐐 @AnupKaphle]

Inside Kaptanganj: How a religious flag dispute and a loudspeaker turned a border village deadly

A month-old incident that engulfed a village that had never seen Hindu-Muslim conflict before shows what happens when religious tensions in plain sight and official warnings go unheeded.

Deeply reported feature from Sunsari, by @tufanjee and @Pabatjhapa —

https://t.co/LvfDZdlHeK

[Leong Wai Kit @LeongWaiKitCNA]

BREAKING: #Myanmar administration releases photo of Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with ICRC Resident Representative to Myanmar on Aug 3

This is developing - will find out more

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

'Your legacy will live forever': Nepal mourns climber Nirmal Purja https://t.co/mOXbNJ1mK1

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

They came from different Indias. One dreamed of Disneyland after exam. The other wouldn't buy a phone until he became a doctor. Both died after India's NEET paper leak forced a retest. Their fathers ask the same question: What was their fault? My piece. https://t.co/S6sUZ4MTmv

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

Iran responds to the US holding off on escalation by attacking another tanker (the third tanker attack in three days).

[ProPublica @propublica]

Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address.

Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.
https://t.co/aU8CUkzEaE

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

1. The odds of Iran agreeing to anything on its nuclear program at the moment are extremely low.

2. To obtain Iran's assent, any deal on Hormuz will require acknowledging Iran's control of the waterway.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump’s Truth Social has just officially launched their $100,000 per month paid service offering faster access to President Trump's market manipulating posts.

Below is a taste of what you’re paying $100,000 per month for.

He’s manipulating the stock market and then charging people to have the ability to insider trade.

Things don’t get any more corrupt than this.

[Ziad Daoud @ZiadMDaoud]

"During a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent carelessly revealed plans for the US to buy $5 bn-$10 bn ⁠in Japanese yen in a scribbled “to do” list left visible to a Reuters photographer"

https://t.co/beRXGDr3fk

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

🧵WaPo: The top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon this week that he lacks sufficient naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, officials said, illustrating how the ongoing Iran war has imposed constraints on the military.

Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, sent written notification to senior Pentagon officials saying that without another Navy destroyer he will be forced to choose defense of the United States “homeland” over that of Israel, said the officials…

[Nikkei Asia @NikkeiAsia]

Pakistan applies for $10bn US forex facility, leverages Iran mediation https://t.co/7pObZAVfFv

[Turkey recap @Turkeyrecap]

"Turkey’s Latest Drama Is an Indonesian Tale Retold" by @ghoshworld. [5/5]
https://t.co/mXZ8y1wbhO