Mujib Mashal

(On a break here) South Asia bureau chief, The New York Times. Previously: senior correspondent, Afghanistan. Views are my own.

[Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul]

“What we are seeing now is a shift from institutional repression to popular violence,” I tell Al Jazeera Journalism Review on emerging threats facing Bangladeshi journalists. “That makes the risks harder to calculate and much harder to protect against.”
https://t.co/PVTIducQgj

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

"Freedom of expression is no longer the main issue -- now it is about the right to stay alive."

From Dhaka, I report on how Bangladesh's liberals are fearful of the rise of the Islamist right.

👉 https://t.co/f5UXz6C7XD

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

Exactly. Beyond normalizing violence at home, such blatant hate from officials like Himanta Biswa Sarma at the top has a broader cost. (Couple years ago, when still in power, even Sheikh Hasina, so close to India, latched onto this)

https://t.co/M1mAXugbBI

[Kallol Bhattacherjee @janusmyth]

There's a strategic consequence for these sort of propaganda. India will be weakened internally and isolated in the region where antithetical forces will emerge under extra-regional support. Wonder why a ruling dispensation would prefer that. https://t.co/lGduCEYNyJ

[Nirupama Subramanian @tallstories]

This is what incitement to violence looks like. Sections 192, 196, 152 of BNS.

[Pragati @CopiousNotes27]

That road, last month! The canopies are denser during the monsoons.
“Every tree I plant are my children. I am alive in each of them.”
https://t.co/pUsuTQvVty

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

“Today, that road — once dusty and filled with parched travelers — is a green corridor lined with hundreds of towering trees that form a sprawling canopy.”

@CopiousNotes27

https://t.co/Hc9pmT4PoH

[Elian Peltier @ElianPeltier]

A second suicide bombing in just a few months in Islamabad, this time on a Shia mosque. Pakistan’s efforts to project a stable environment for foreign investors are being increasingly challenged, in Balochistan, in border areas, now in the capital again.
https://t.co/l6l1jONNs3

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

A searing view of the U.S. from across the border: “America is becoming synonymous with dangerous randomness. The constitutional system is in collapse. The legislative branch…missing in action…it’s America that poses a threat to our freedom & democracy”

https://t.co/hpGF2TnfKj

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

India and the U.S., on February 7, 2026, announced that they have reached a framework for an interim trade agreement under which tariffs on New Delhi will be reduced to 18%.

Read latest updates

https://t.co/k2rllsVqME

[Annesha Ghosh @ghosh_annesha]

In my book, #WPL 2026 from Smriti Mandhana the cricketer -- batter, senior player, captain, leader, brand -- will go down as the "How the heck did she do it?!" season.

It takes a strength of a different kind to show up, and then to boss in this fashion...

How the heck, Smriti.

[Annesha Ghosh @ghosh_annesha]

Tough one for Delhi Capitals to digest. Again. One of those baffling records in all sport for sure? Four straight finals. Runners-up every time.

Top turnaround mid-season. Lots of great stories. But outbatted by Voll, Mandhana in the final.

Also, kudos to the Vadodara curator.

[ESPNcricinfo @ESPNcricinfo]

RCB ARE WPL CHAMPIONS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS 🏆

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

I have always tried to use my work to marry accountability-focused reporting with deeply human narratives that drive the stakes of policy decisions home. If that's something you'd like in your newsroom, please do get in touch.

louisaloveluck [at] gmail [dot] com.

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

“While funding has shrunk, needs have increased. More than 2.8 million Afghan refugees were expelled or forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan last year …Two deadly earthquakes that struck the country last summer and fall left thousands homeless…”

https://t.co/yBMzfcFUKv

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

MEA repeats Commerce Min on Trump claim India agreed to stop Russian oil imports- says,

On Russian Oil :
"Diversifying our energy sourcing in keeping with objective market conditions and evolving international dynamics is at the core of our strategy"

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

Ishaan’s column was a must read for anyone trying to make sense of so much fast-paced madness around the world. No one brought so much insight, history, and clear, sensitive analysis to such a wide range of issues on daily basis.

Shame.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them.

I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

generational scale devastation for some
of the world’s best journalists. what an absolute horror show.

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.

[Parin Behrooz @Parinlalala]

one of the best journalists in the game. and a one of a kind colleague and friend any newsroom would be lucky to have.

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

Absolute insanity. Some incredible journalists, doing brave brave work, out of work today.

[Gerry Shih @gerryshih]

It was a privilege to be a Post correspondent, roaming the world the last 7+ years for a paper I very much believed in. I'm gone along with the rest of the ME team and majority of teammates from Delhi to Beijing to Kyiv & Latam. Sad day, but it was a lot of fun and we raised hell