Manali

Work in Progress.

[Manali @Manali_San]

Fascinating read || https://t.co/M4Pp2DuowA

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Urban Development" by Christophe Vorlet

[TIME @TIME]

"A decade of backpacking through countries like Laos, Armenia, and El Salvador has taught me that travel makes poor therapy, finding yourself abroad won’t solve the problems waiting for you back at home, and focusing on the journey rather than the destination isn’t as straightforward as it sounds." —Tim Brinkhof for TIME https://t.co/oX3GXhuKl4

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

A man blinded by a flag about to step off into emptiness might be Banksy's best work ever.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Before capitalism, common people had customary rights to the land. These had to be violently destroyed to create a working class with no way to survive but to sell its labor.

Peter Linebaugh, a foremost historian of the commons, explains the process: https://t.co/hBL0wtAged

[Manali @Manali_San]

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[best of supriya ganesh @bestofsupriya]

Supriya Ganesh wrote a personal essay on gender dysphoria for New York Magazine 🤍

“Growing up in India, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel disconnected from my body.”

[Manali @Manali_San]

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[Grace Panetta @grace_panetta]

"One woman in the fashion industry had a breakdown after Vogue turned her down. 'She burned bridges with a lot of the friends who participated in her wedding as unpaid vendors, blamed the fiasco on all of her guests, and then she checked herself into a ‘trauma retreat’ for over a month,' says one of the attendees." https://t.co/Gn90uVEx1k

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Andrea Bartzen, who moved to New York in the late 1990s from Ohio, said she went to MIT and claimed to work in pharmaceutical advertising. She would commute from the office to drinks on the Upper East Side or the occasional socialite-studded charity benefit. “She was on top of the world,” said an acquaintance. “Buying people drinks and cigars and being very generous.” What her party friends didn’t know was that Bartzen couldn’t keep a steady job and couldn’t afford to be picking up the tab.

Bartzen, however, seemed to show up everywhere — charity galas, restaurants, designer-boutique events — without an invitation. It didn’t seem to matter to Bartzen whether she was invited or not. Once inside, she would make the rounds, posing for party photographs with the most noteworthy people there.

In 2024, when Bartzen set about planning the first big event of her own, which she called the Global Passion Project, it looked like she already knew everyone who mattered. That perception was important as Bartzen targeted her new audience: the immensely lucrative world of family offices, which are essentially private wealth-management firms where the rich run their personal fortunes.

Later that fall, Bartzen began hanging out with a younger man who introduced himself as Matthew Rockefeller. Suddenly, Bartzen and Global Passion Projects, to which Rockefeller signed on, took on a new gloss. By March, Rockefeller and Bartzen were regaling rich people across Florida with their alleged family lore.

(Bartzen did not respond to numerous requests for comment and a lawyer representing ‘Rockefeller’ said “facts are incorrect” without identifying which ones specifically.)

Jen Wieczner reports on how a pair of blue-blood impostors turned party crashing in the Hamptons and Palm Beach into a business — and became a white-hot topic of gossip in society circles: https://t.co/xxb3XNWk2S

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Sometimes a story is just crushing …

An Afghan family served with American special forces. Now stranded, hiding in complete darkness in Pakistan. One country wants to deport them; another wants to execute the ; no one is willing to help them.

https://t.co/hpt2DK6scT

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

In 2024, McKay Coppins was asked to verify a “massive story”: A Mexican man said he was forced to compete in a tournament of cartels.

Coppins’s investigation raised questions not only about the tale, but about who—and what—we are conditioned to believe: https://t.co/UIzsEZlrxi

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Sharp, brilliant piece by Justice (R) Madan B Lokur on why the Supreme Court must not allow the government to get away with saying the Sonam Wangchuk habeas corpus plea is now infructuous.

Preventive Detention Abused: Why the Supreme Court Must Still Rule on Wangchuk https://t.co/06eGc59MuU

[Manali @Manali_San]

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[Manali @Manali_San]

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[Manali @Manali_San]

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[Manali @Manali_San]

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[Siddhant Adlakha @SiddhantAdlakha]

Want to be clear: while Payal Kapadia receiving a major award tonight would be a big win “for India” (and Indian artists), this doesn’t mean it would be a win for the country’s institutions or cinematic establishment. It would be a win despite them. #Cannes2024

[Nidheesh M K @mknid]

2015: FTII under Gajendra Chauhan slaps disciplinary action against a student, Payal Kapadia. She had boycotted classes& led the 4-month long protest against Chauhan. Later, FTII cut her grant.

2024: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light wins the #Cannes2024 Grand Prix ✨

[Manali @Manali_San]

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