Sajad Gul

Reporting on the intersection of environment, conflict, social injustice, memory & human rights in India |Story tips: [email protected]

[Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi]

Great (off news )weekend read. The brain injury that made a middle school teacher a musical genius!
@SadieDing

https://t.co/iT6hWGDNHf

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Lovely, thoughtful, rambling essay by @AatishTaseer that evoked much within me. https://t.co/DRJR6Wagf1

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

I’ve been travelling in Congo for a month with @Berehulak in remote areas hit by Ebola and Islamic State raids. Our story today: https://t.co/Ik1PEPBoip

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@yogital @EditorsUK @sanjayganguly @Imo_Anderson @AamirPeerzadaa @AakritiThapar @Mahfouzzubaide1 Congratulations!! @yogital 👏

[Mujib Mashal @MujMash]

Novaya Gazeta’s “forced closure is emblematic of the Kremlin’s erasure of opinions, ideas and people that do not conform to its views”

@VALERIEinNYT

https://t.co/OxoZGrtJDF via @NYTimes

[Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi]

Who is really running Iran? I'm on the Daily looking at who is in charge of the country after the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei and what those leaders really want.

https://t.co/knS0K4HQCh

[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

Iran FM Abbas ,@araghchi:
"We permitted passage through the Strait of #Hormuz for friendly nations including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan".

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

I was going to recommend this profile of Ali Larijani and his writings on Kant before he was killed. Now you can read it as an obit. https://t.co/7qjvmsCtwn

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To watch... this New Yorker documentary with refugees from South Sudan in Kenya on "what goes when aid goes. https://t.co/6h6h6ezpUB

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How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory https://t.co/DJGE57kFWy

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Excellent piece.
The 1979 revolution didn’t succeed because Iranians were angry.They had been angry for years.The revolution succeeded because three critical power centers aligned: the people, the clergy, & the bazaar merchants united against the monarchy. https://t.co/h2puESkwqU

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“I was, like, Holy shit, I just built a messenger for iPhone.” WhatsApp became WhatsApp. “Almost everybody went from, like, Oh, this is useless to Oh, this is very useful,” Koum said. ⁦@samknightwrites⁩ in an illuminating piece on ⁦@NewYorker⁩ https://t.co/N51KXAaNq7

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Iran Toppled the Shah in 1979. Why This Time Isn’t Quite Like That ⁦@TIME⁩ https://t.co/h2puESkwqU

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#Iran: At least 3,000 people have been killed in the ongoing unrest, including hundreds of security officials, a senior health ministry official told the ⁦⁦@nytimes⁩ ⁦@farnazfassihi⁩

"SHOOT TO KILL" https://t.co/sH4kDDEtAi

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Two Hours, Scores of Questions, 23,000 Words: Our Interview With President Trump

Four New York Times reporters pressed Mr. Trump about a range of topics in a nearly two-hour interview. Here is a transcript of their conversation. https://t.co/3xVOu0CIhT

[Jeffrey Gettleman @gettleman]

Tug of War at the top of the world! Greenland is not the only chunk of the Arctic stirring up interest. Read all about it:

https://t.co/446heF9Vzp

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

History rhymes: Nicolas Maduro was captured on the 26th anniversary of Manuel Noriega's surrender to US forces.

But that's where the similarity ends.

In my latest column for @TIME, I explain why Venezuela is a very different proposition from Panama

https://t.co/Pgh7vPWWeG

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Amazing journalism: The Times obtained thousands of complaints by Russian citizens outlying brutal mistreatment of Russian soldiers by their own officers. https://t.co/ptlrZkri1R

[Kevin Lozano @kevlloydlozano]

Spent some time with Laura Poitras for @thenation

https://t.co/2dUpViyiJ1

[Netflix @netflix]

A former Saigon photo editor reveals a secret he’s been plagued with for 52 years, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into the truth behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs.

The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo is now playing.