RachelChitraTOI

Reporter, Times of India Biz

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

Starting a thread - on things that make me smile!! When I want to remind myself that India is beautiful; the most beautiful country in the world irrespective of recent events
https://t.co/gB5U4lPWbO

[adityadickysingh 🇮🇳 @adityadickysin]

Let me tell you a story from Ranthambhore tiger reserve about 6 wild animals – a mama Sloth bear with two babies on her back, a pair of mating tigers and an ape with a camera (me). It’s an old story from almost a decade ago. Pardon the poor quality of pictures. Read on.

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

@TheRealHoarse Heya from India

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

@deepakshenoy People forget the city's skyscrapers

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

The market for Corona-Kovach policies has grown 10-fold in a month to Rs 1.1 crore from 15 lakh. A record sales figure that makes it the hottest selling insurance product in decades.
https://t.co/9ualOVsUK4

[Frank McGovern - INACTIVE @FrankMcG]

He is in several high-risk groups — elderly, obese, low-income.

[Karma Paljor🚀 @Karma_Paljor]

It has been pouring in Meghalaya since September 22. Hills have turned into massive scale waterfalls

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Arey bhai I was saying it sarcastically

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

Made in Karnataka - hitting new heights with ventilator production @timesofindia

[BygoneBangalore @BygoneBangalore]

5/5 By 1956, total expenditure of construction was about Rs 1.8 crore (not to mention the free sweat of prisoners), which probably would cost hundreds of crores now.

#prisonlabour #vidhansoudha

[BygoneBangalore @BygoneBangalore]

4/5 The authorities, in a bid to popularize the revivalist tradition of buildings, brought masons from areas like Karaikul and Trichurapalli, as per Jon Lang, in his book ‘Concise History of Modern Architecture in India’ #Architecture #Indosarcenic #Indosarcenicarchitecture

[BygoneBangalore @BygoneBangalore]

3/5 The building was envisioned to be a testament nationalistic wave in India post independence.

Sadly, about 5,000 prisoners from Bangalore central jail were made to work on the construction of Vidhan Souda. PC credit: TOI, Express
#slavelabour #prisoners

[BygoneBangalore @BygoneBangalore]

2/5 In fact, British-era buildings made up the entire skyline Bengaluru, that the Mysore State chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah in 1950, decided to showcase Dravidian style architecture in the seat of legislature of Karnataka. #Bygonebangalore #Bangaloreheritage #Bangalore

[BygoneBangalore @BygoneBangalore]

1/5 Labour of Love OR Labour of prisoners? A rather imposing figure in Bangalore now, Vidhan Soudha is a relatively newer entrant in the city, which was primarily marked by colonial and Victorian buildings. #VictorianBuildings #OldBangalore

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

When you're worried about the terrible weather. And your daughter sees the same video to sing "Mangaatha mariyatha"

https://t.co/dUIgEzvX2I

[zkwebchain @zkwebchain]

My fav video from these terribly rainy days

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

Starting a thread - on things that make me smile!! When I want to remind myself that India is beautiful; the most beautiful country in the world irrespective of recent events
https://t.co/gB5U4lPWbO

[adityadickysingh 🇮🇳 @adityadickysin]

Let me tell you a story from Ranthambhore tiger reserve about 6 wild animals – a mama Sloth bear with two babies on her back, a pair of mating tigers and an ape with a camera (me). It’s an old story from almost a decade ago. Pardon the poor quality of pictures. Read on.

[RachelChitraTOI @RachelChitraTOI]

When mom had to step in #wildlife #elephants
https://t.co/d05KV5kK3J

[Sanjay Jha @JhaSanjay]

Pandit Nehru once wrote a self-critical piece anonymously in a newspaper warning against becoming autocratic. That is the true Congress;democratic, liberal, tolerant, inclusive. We have drifted far from those values. Why?

I remain a committed fearless ideological soldier of INC.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

May I end this by saying that if as middle-aged editors (personally witnessed twice, man + woman, many others did too) you have to scream at trembling interns over the phone, "how dare you not recognise my voice," & "do you know who you're speaking to?" your career is a waste.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

Many of these journalists are doing phenomenal things bec they're actually good. But almost all of them are product of stunning privilege. The doors that opened for them as young reporters. When you can call a newspaper's managing editor "uncle" at work, where is the struggle?

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

Google the names of all truly well known journalists today. Those you hear as household names. They are brilliant, I'm not denying it. But brilliance is also a combination of right opportunity + practice + privilege + experience capital of parents and their intimate social circle

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I realised that intellectual, social and class capital of second and third generations of journalists is something we'll never compete with. It refinement the rest of us will acquire over years of hard work and still many doors will be closed to us. Do something -

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

They spoke of midnight visitors - famous poets, theatre artists. We were learning to unwrite middle school English & unlearn "ki" as punctuation. They were "sharing a drink with dad." Homes with teak bookshelves. Reading was curated by intellectual upper class working parents.