Samir Patil

[Samir Patil @samirpatil]

Kapil Sharma in Zwigato: When India's top comedian became a food delivery boy - BBC News ⁦@KapilSharmaK9⁩ ⁦@nanditadas⁩ ⁦@ApplauseSocial⁩ https://t.co/rk1sLwHgsy

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

📢Thirty-five years ago, on July 24, 1991, in his Budget speech, Dr. Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” The idea was economic freedom for Indians. It meant dismantling the License-Permit-Raj, allowing market prices, free trade, and pursuing rapid economic growth in a country plagued by poverty and self-imposed shortages. 🧵1/n

[Peter McCrory @PeterMcCrory]

https://t.co/udfcEF04vx

[Semafor @semafor]

Skyroot's Vikram-1 became the first private Indian craft to reach orbit, breaking the US-China duopoly on commercial spaceflight.

https://t.co/zObcP5cQu3

[Nandini Ramnath @nandiniramnath]

MAIN VAAPAS AAUNGA
‘The Odyssey’ review
https://t.co/OgPaTT29xf via @TheReel_in

[Nandini Ramnath @nandiniramnath]

Heavy is the head that wears this helmet in Christopher Nolan's riveting The Odyssey, led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway #odysseyindia

[Sparsh Agarwal @sparshselim]

@scroll_in the complete piece can be accessed here https://t.co/j04VIWThFO

[Sparsh Agarwal @sparshselim]

you can read the piece on @scroll_in here
https://t.co/uOhkBWcj9a

[McKinsey Global Institute @McKinsey_MGI]

How do you grow rice in a desert? With innovation.

Australian farmers have the world's most productive rice farms, despite their continent being the driest. If all countries matched the yields of today's top performers, we could feed the world of tomorrow. https://t.co/r6c33eM2DL

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

New from me: The Founders proclaimed America’s independence 250 years ago. An Indian barber in Virginia beat them to it by seven weeks.

https://t.co/t5vVr127bP

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

As the US turns 250, it's time to revisit
@anuradhakumar01's remarkable series on Americans in India.
The story of a young American who made a fortune while Indian kingdoms fought among themselves 1/n
https://t.co/EKQSypGDUm

[Archie Hall @ArchieHall]

IS THE ECONOMIST ALWAYS WRONG?

Scandalously, in some circles @TheEconomist has a reputation as a contrarian indicator. This week we fessed up to getting a big call on oil prices from April wrong.

Obviously our goal is not perfectly-hedged (and perfectly boring) predictive accuracy: often it is to stimulate, provoke, and challenge. But I did want to test that wider allegation, so I ran a series of LLM scorers across our full leader database since 2000 (7,000 leaders in all.)

You can see the results in the chart below: each dot is one of the 1,400 leaders where we identified concrete and falsifiable predictions that were central to the argument. Higher = more accurate, further to the right = more contrarian.

We do well, unsurprisingly, when aligned with conventional wisdom. We often do worse when truly out on a limb. But actually, on average, we are a bit likelier to be right than wrong on our somewhat-out-of-consensus calls. All round, a respectable performance.

And as @ecurrnomics points out an accompanying leader, there is no shame at all in being beaten by the market: as good free-marketers we believe deeply in the aggregated wisdom of prices.

Take a look at my piece here, which includes a canter through our best and worst calls of the last quarter-century: https://t.co/WyKqangFrE

[West Side Press @west_side_press]

Launching the international edition of @saliltripathi Gujaratis with @sree in NYC
https://t.co/6isyDOd6eE

[New India Foundation @newindiafndtion]

A book priced at ₹100. The publisher keeps ₹37.50. Production costs ₹20. Royalties take ₹7. Overheads eat another ₹10.

What's left? Almost nothing. Urvashi Butalia on the brutal arithmetic that nobody talks about loudly enough.

From the NIF Masterclass on Publishing Contracts.

[Samir Patil @samirpatil]

Excited to launch West Side Press with Salil’s book. The goal is simple: publish quality nonfiction from the subcontinent for readers outside India. Properly marketed international editions should not be as rare as they are today @saliltripathi https://t.co/A5EfvGV690

[Arunava Sinha @arunava]

Friends in America, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories is now in your country. And in paperback, at that. https://t.co/CyehOqXMG7 or, if you absolutely must, here https://t.co/Cdv56kYDJi

[Nandini Ramnath @nandiniramnath]

Wrote about Bimal Roy’s ‘Do Bigha Zamin’ and the never-ending race against poverty https://t.co/LZSLwYjEvr via @TheReel_in

[Nandini Ramnath @nandiniramnath]

A terrific essay by Swarnavel Eswaran: Bharathiraja (1941-2026): The earth remembers its own https://t.co/wS5dHPl75c via @TheReel_in

[Bobby Ghosh @ghoshworld]

New from me: With “Persepolis,” #MarjaneSatrapi turned a childhood under revolution into one of the most widely read graphic memoirs ever published.

https://t.co/wID8F5wosw

[Samir Patil @samirpatil]

Excited to launch West Side Press with Salil’s book. The goal is simple: publish quality nonfiction from the subcontinent for readers outside India. Properly marketed international editions should not be as rare as they are today @saliltripathi https://t.co/A5EfvGV690

[amrita tripathi @amritat]

Coming in June 2026! Excited to share this
@ShivrajParshad
@samirpatil
@BloomsburyIndia

#Leadership

https://t.co/8RDAfsfLk3 via @stck_me