Nitin Nair

Never mind

[M K Venu @mkvenu1]

Important that this is an assessment from someone who had reposed faith in Modi's economic policies in 2014-15! Modi has disappointed many. Govt's own economic advisors are uncomfortable now.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

A 17 year old @sidhant_sarthak who exposed the CBSE tender document process is likely to appear before a parliamentary panel today . More power to you young Sarthak, you have done what we in the media should have done: shown truth to power!👍 (hope you aren’t called ‘anti national’ for your efforts!)!https://t.co/rCP8hF1LVw

[Pracool @thehighmonk]

Dharmendra Pradhan won’t resign because accountability is contagious. If he goes, Hardeep Singh Puri is next. Then Ashwini Vaishnaw. Then Nirmala Sitharaman. Pull one domino and the entire chain of manufactured invincibility comes crashing down.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

What's happening to Vinesh Phogat is exactly why we can never be a sporting nation.

She's a world class athlete playing a sport run by an uncultured thug.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

It should be Indian prime minister Modi who sparks controversy for refusing to answer media questions while abroad, not a journalist for simply asking. https://t.co/trFVTeEUZh

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 @TheDeshBhakt]

Dear Sibi,
You have a bright future in Indian politics🔥The confidence & authority with which you say these things!💪
U should start as party spokesperson today (that way you’ll embarrass yourself at home and not the nation abroad)🙏🏼

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

🚨India loses all spots in world's top 100 companies as equity crash bites

For the first time in years, not a single Indian company figures among the world's top 100 listed firms by market capitalisation , a measure of how deeply and relentlessly the selloff in domestic equities has cut.

Reliance Industries, the country's most valued firm, has slipped to around 106th globally from 57th at the start of 2025 and 73rd at the start of 2026. HDFC Bank, India's most valued lender, now ranks 190th, down from 97th at the start of 2025.

Bharti Airtel stands at 202nd, falling from 164th at the start of 2026. ICICI Bank and State Bank of India have dropped to 274th and 276th respectively, from 215th and 231st at the start of 2026.

The decline has been sharpest among India's top technology stocks. TCS, the country's largest software exporter, has seen the steepest fall, with its global rank dropping to 314th from 84th at the start of 2025 and 171st at the start of 2026.

Infosys, India's second largest IT firm, now ranks 590th, down from 198th at the start of 2025 and 330th at the start of 2026. ITC has slipped to 702nd from 296th and 466th at the start of 2025 and 2026 respectively.

By @rravindia

https://t.co/YgZPFg4Wut

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

I’ve never seen a trial balloon popped personally by the prime minister before.

[chettan @RamSrivs]

Love this from Mitchell McClenaghan. Absolutely buried these cringy youngsters and their over the top celebrations 😭
Some of these celebrations are pure nonsense now.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Taking no credit away from the players, and it's wonderful to have a spontaneous celebration, but the chits and special moves, usually orchestrated by social media managers, are beginning to wear me down..

[Suparna Sharma @SuparnaSharma]

Delighted to share that @an_anandrk @natalieobiko and I are now Pulitzer award winners!
https://t.co/uKSqlnC1Mh

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

One #KeralaStory from the recent election results that communalists should note: a Muslim majority constituency, Thavanur, elected a Christian, VS Joy; a Hindu majority constituency, Kalamassery, elected a Muslim. VE Abdul Gafoor; and a Christian majority constituency, Kochi, elected a Muslim, Muhammed Shiyas. Despite some influence from the national trends in favour of identity politics, Kerala remains a model of communal harmony, a state where people see human beings first and caste or religion later

@incindia @inckerala

[Anand Vasu @anandvasu]

This may not make for popular reading, but all Indian sports fans should listen to what Satwik and Chirag are saying. This is about how India's fans make some of their sportspersons feel.
The cricket versus other sports debate keeps popping up. And die-hard supporters of lesser-watched sports rue the lack of attention their game gets.
But, the fact of the matter is that Indian sports fans care disproportionately about cricket and the IPL.
Till this changes, no amount of infrastructure development, event hosting, corporate support, governance reform ... will make a lasting difference.
And, anyway, those things typically only come, when those in power have the motivation to make the right changes and are held accountable.
That will only happen when enough fans actually watch, play, talk about, love, hate and appreciate a wider range of sport.
Terrific and sobering interview by Shivani Naik:

[Surbhi @SurrbhiM]

How can any sane person on earth vote for a person like Himanta Biswa Sarma?

[Prapthi @prapthi_m]

Dhurandhar 3 should be about how Dhyanesh Kumar saves India's democracy and electoral integrity by spearheading a lethal strategy to remove anti-nationals from voter lists.

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

In Chimbai, Mary gets a wedding invitation with a card emblazoned with a Ganesh emblem. #IndiaEndures

[Harshit Anand @7h_anand]

In the last 10-12 years, we’ve normalised Modi’s grotesque state election campaigning features to an extent where now nobody even questions why the sitting PM is on a boat in Hooghly midst a global crisis, burning Manipur, LPG shortage, migrant crisis, workers’ protest etc. etc.

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

If only someone had warned you, right?

For decades, environmentalists, forest/ grassland experts, citizens who mapped dying rivers, lakes and water bodies, climate journalists tried to tell us.

But no. Kill mangroves, torch forests, mine the mountains. Now we're burning up.🔥

[Design Bandit @arroworks]

India has zero urban planning. We just concentrate on creating concrete jungles with imposing structures using a lot of glass and structural glazing. Nobody wants to create tree-lined boulevards, public gardens, or compulsory water bodies.

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

Until now, elections in India have meant voters choosing their representatives. This is now history. That principle has been stood on its head.
Elections now mean the government taking on the onerous task of choosing the voters.
Let's thank all the Constitutional functionaries who made this possible by forgetting their oaths.