Nivriti Butalia

Delhi girl in Dubai. Likes gardens, gnomes and staring back at cats.

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

Do I really need to tell an online plant retailer what I thought of my peace lily?

https://t.co/wdXyjdMK9T | Nic Ridley @NicRidley via @TheNationalNews

[Paromita Vohra @parodevi]

Thank you @amitvarma for inviting me to your show again. We took a conversational stroll thru poetic feminist byways of solitude, loneliness, daydreaming being misfits,being friends, and well,life. Different than before (coz I'm older, unsurer than ever :)
https://t.co/pDBgETKhC2

[Nivriti Butalia @butniv]

@parodevi @amitvarma Funny, insightful, relevant, much to be said. Started listening yday, finished on commute today. Scribbled a bunch of phrases that resonated. The one abt "friendships that can absorb distance". V nice when podcasts make you take lots of notes. Sent the link to many. Thank you!

[Indranil Ghosh @neelghosh]

As ethnic violence continues to rage in Manipur, a powerful grassroots women's movement known as the "Meira Paibis" has taken centre stage. @taniyadutta24 reports from Manipur https://t.co/fuNpQPKjNb via @TheNationalNews

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

Swimming classes at the beach could be an inclusive community programme that would ideally welcome people across nationalities, genders, income and age groups.

https://t.co/QGkC3KHjy8 | Nivriti Butalia @butniv via @TheNationalNews

#DrowningPrevention

[Nivriti Butalia @butniv]

"Peter also took great pride in reminding his commissioning editors at The National that he never missed a deadline, something he said he had learnt from his father, Arthur Hellyer, who wrote a weekly gardening column for the FT for 30 years."
https://t.co/j1AjInplVo

[The National @TheNationalNews]

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Of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world, 11 are in the Middle East and North Africa, making it one of the most affected regions in the world

[The National @TheNationalNews]

One woman's mission to ensure those in need can eat cheap meals across the UAE https://t.co/02TeI9Lt0A

[Willy Lowry @willy_lowry]

Good Morning from #Trump Tower. Journalist to protester ratio appears to be about 100 to 1. ⁦@TheNationalNews⁩

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

Sure, it was slightly wearying to have to constantly fend off “old person” jokes... but battery life was really good to start with, too, and the camera was perfectly capable.

https://t.co/EQ6sdaOaGv | Nick March @NicholasMarch @TheNationalNews

[Aya Iskandarani @Aya_Isk]

Lebanese Whatsapp groups on fire with jokes about the tiny country following two time zones, one adopted mostly by the gvt & Muslims & the other by Christians 🤦‍♀️

Sectarian leaders will find a way to disagree on everything — including what time it is.

Map via @aciltab

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

I don’t know what Ramadan this year is going to be like. I find myself thinking about how many of us have lost family, friends, neighbours...

https://t.co/9daoOgRRZD | Weam Ghazal @INARAorg via @TheNationalNews

[Nivriti Butalia @butniv]

Saw a sweet sight in #Dubai #JLT and wrote about it. Gang of older friends having a ball on a Saturday morning. Shouldn't be a rare thing.

https://t.co/fMH2bFaouQ @NationalComment @TheNationalNews

[Sarwat Nasir @SarwatNasir]

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi’s first words from space #Crew6

[Taylor Heyman @Taylorheyman]

So here it is - our new newsletter! If you want a does of positivity in your inbox every Friday, sign up

[Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen1]

Turkey cannot anymore afford the warped version of its social contract that incentivizes Amnesty Laws for non-compliant buildings. A crowd pleaser that has turned into a crowd killer. My take on the earthquake and the debate it needs to trigger @NationalComment

[Nivriti Butalia @butniv]

"Like another of my closest friends, the great contrarian Christopher Hitchens, Pratip wasn't always right. Indeed, both of them were often wrong. But their analytical prowess and rhetorical genius turned conversations into stylistic master classes."

Nice piece from @Ibishblog

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

My friends and I nominated him for an Award for Multiculturalism in 1996. When accepting it, however, he made the dignitaries sit through an endless Leninist harangue that was hilarious and excruciating.

https://t.co/bMQOUE3Eam | Hussein Ibish @Ibishblog @TheNationalNews

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

It is not Earth tremors that usually kill but concrete. This is not a random life-and-death lottery but a direct consequence of development that determines the quality of a country’s built infrastructure.

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila

https://t.co/QYY3Ob8D7Y via @TheNationalNews

[The National Comment @NationalComment]

Rahul Gandhi's road to power remains long and complicated, but is he at least on his way?

https://t.co/fecyfNToAk | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil @ChitrabhanuRK

[S lrfan Habib एस इरफान हबीब عرفان حبئب @irfhabib]

Read what the most erudite historians had to say about the Mughal Garden. Prof Narayani Gupta is one of the most authoritative voices on the history of Delhi.