@karishmaupadhyay.bsky

Author of Parveen Babi: A Life. Freelance journalist who also writes about film, travel & food. Byline @htTweets, @IndiaToday & @Firstpost.

[@karishmaupadhyay.bsky @karishmau]

Today is the day. It's been a labour of love that's consumed me for three years and now my biography of #ParveenBabi is out in bookstores and e-retailers.
https://t.co/onb5dY6H3A

[Namrata Joshi @Namrata_Joshi]

Punjab1984 won the national award, so did Gulzar’s Maachis. The ban on Satluj has been reiterated by the govt panel. What changed from 1996 to 2014 to 2026? If you’ve been covering cinema for decades you’d know censorship is nothing new. I’d have amassed most bylines on it 1/n

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Temple demolition kills PWD worker in UP

A 58-year-old PWD worker, Baldev Yadav, was killed in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, after the dome of a revered ancient Kali temple rolled onto a busy road during its demolition. Authorities failed to properly cordon off the roadside temple, causing the dome to fall onto the street and fatally injure Yadav while also hurting others nearby.

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Here’s your annual reminder than 300+ public libraries have closed down in Maharashtra in the last 5 years, Marathi theatre auditoriums are shutting down in record numbers, and there is ZERO funding for Marathi literature or cinema.

Maybe fix that before going after autowallahs.

[Veena Jain @Vtxt21]

Roads are collapsing, let's travel in Trains

The Trains : 👇☔🤧

[Dr Maira Siddiqui @MissSiddiquiiii]

6 हज़ार का चालान काटने के बाद युवक ने उसी दरोगा को रास्ते में रोका जो बिना हेलमेट के जा रहा था और लोगो को हेलमेट न होने पर चालान काट रहा था।

[Daniella @DaniellaMazzio]

We're so close to inventing TV

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

In Jharkhand

People are being extorted by BLO to get their name in SIR list

"If we don't give Rs 50 to BLO,he threatens that he will not update our SIR form correctly & we will lose our citizenship"

Imagine losing your citizenship for Rs. 50

What a fckd up country we live in

[نورة الحربي @n_alharbi112]

🚨عاجل: إسرائيل أسقطت نوعًا جديدًا من القنابل في غزة.

الفلسطينيين يصفونها بأنها "قنبلة نووية مصغرة"، لكن التحليل يشير إلى أنها على الأرجح سلاح حراري ضاغط (فراغي).

اسرائيل تنتهك القانوني الدولي مع مساندة ترامب

[autist @litteralyme0]

Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

MORNING : ED raids Shekhar Suman’s show Shekhar Tonite’s producer.

EVENING : Shekhar Suman rips apart BJP even brutally instead of being scared.

Absolute Cinema 🍿🤣

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

When I walked by this sculpture on the promenade a few days ago, it was clutching a spray of balloons. Like the city, they have crumbled. (Before pix not mine.) 1/n

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

KEEP BULLYING TECH COMPANIES INTO REMOVING USELESS AND INVASIVE AI FEATURES!!!!!!!!

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

MY GREATEST ADULT DISAPPOINTMENT WAS DISCOVERING THAT BAD PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING.

[Ashish Bagchi @BagchiAsh]

Thanks to Helle Lyng Svendsen, a Norwegian journalist, who made sure everyone knew about it.

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

“This is about as close as you would get to Narendra Modi on his trip to Melbourne. He famously avoids unscripted news conferences, preferring instead more stage-managed appearances.”

~ Australian Media

After Norway, Australian media has now criticised Modi for his aversion to questions.

It’s only a matter of time before the cheerleaders of Narendra Modi in the Indian media dig up dirt on this Australian journalist, question his training, his understanding of India, and his right to say what he has.

But the joke is on the Indian media, whom Modi treats with disdain - subjecting them only to his monologues.

[the reporters' collective @reporters_co]

New Report: Assam Rifle co-hosts a conference with RSS affiliates on Myanmar, national security and northeast India.

What were armed service and intelligence officials conversing about with RSS members? Read in the next tweet.

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[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

This is embarrassing as a Hindu & Indian

Bro why would you go to a museum in Azerbaijan and start chanting Gayatri Mantra so loudly?

What is this insecurity? This is disrespectful to both cultures!!

No civic sense at all!!

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

घटिया सड़कें टूटने पर जब सवाल पूछा गया

तो मंत्री ने कहा: “आप अपने आप सड़क बना लो..”

अच्छा?! तो सरकार सिर्फ़ फ़ीता काटने और झुनझुना बजाने के लिए है क्या?

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

"He famously avoids unscripted press conferences, preferring instead, stage managed appearances."

[Jonty @sandey14]

प्रसिध्द Cardiologist डाॅ.राहुल सावंत बघा काय म्हणत आहे.
मी पहिल्यापासुन सांगतोय जनतेचा रोष वाढलेला आहे.
पण गडी काही ऐकालाच तयार नाही.