Manishankar I مانيشانكار

Indian Oceanist. Desi Khaleeji.

[Manishankar I مانيشانكار @change_thinker]

https://t.co/dVIOTrfRR9

[Gabriel Elizondo @elizondogabriel]

It’s official: Rodrigues-Birkett will have her interactive dialogue and take questions from all member states this Thursday from 10am to 1pm.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

What keeps London alive is simply the lack of credible alternatives for highly ambitious Europeans / non-US citizens.
- Paris, Madrid and Milan are simply worse value propositions
- The US immigration route is effectively closed (lottery system, >$100k H-1B)
- Singapore/HK are just too far from family/friends and boring
- Dubai used to be the alternative, but recent events reshuffled that

[Ian Chong 莊嘉穎 @ChongJaIan]

Thanks to @LowyInstitute for the invite. Glad to have @Kuniwawa & @hmarston4 share the stage w/ me!

[Sunanda Vashisht @sunandavashisht]

Inside NCPI Merger: Why TMC Rebels Side-Stepped The Eknath Shinde Playbook | This is a new template and will become very popular in coming days. Completely and neatly sidesteps anti defection law. Realpolitik! https://t.co/R2KzJS48mY

[Zulkiplee Mahdi @zulmah56]

Wong Chen hv nothing to lose by staying or get expelled. He's a candidate who can win anywhere which few biggies from PKR can't.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

bloody hell - US colluded with Qatar and Iran to undermine its own blockade. This is nuts.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Oman's quiet diplomacy did not fare well in the time of Trump's era of oversharing and fast-fire posting

Oman made it clear it would have never agreed to any mechanism that would not be consensual with the GCC, the IMO, international law and international partners

Oman tried to alter Iranian discourse around a toll system into a mechanisms more mutually acceptable by everyone

At no point did Oman want to be part of a toll system that would undermine its own strategic heritage build around freedom of navigation

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

"The Pakistanis were well briefed and the face of the process, thanks to the field marshal's relationship with Trump, but the Qataris quietly did most of the heavy lifting to bridge the two sides." https://t.co/yzERTYDp5y

[Pragya Kaushika @pragyakaushika]

Six MPs of UBT in touch with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena. Sources in SS claim Uddhav camp will be left with only 2 MPs. NDA has what is required to have 2/3rd majority in parl.

[India Foundation @indfoundation]

New Delhi has worked with every Myanmar government. Why should junta be different?

Article by Ms Rami Niranjan Desai @ramindesai , Distinguished Fellow at India Foundation for @ThePrintIndia

https://t.co/VOp3umlD4j

[Tushar Gupta @Tushar15]

You would think someone from DMK has written this. But…

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

With the national citizen party .. and now UBT Shiv sena and possibly BJD .. numbers for NDA to swell

[Manishankar I مانيشانكار @change_thinker]

The Nasab State

[Ziad Daoud @ZiadMDaoud]

Kuwait continues to strip people of citizenship

Among the affected:

One of its most famous actors: Daoud Hussein

One of its most famous singers: Nawal al-Kuwaitia

And now, according to @alaraby_ar, one of its most famous novelists: Taleb Al-Rifai

[Puyangan Adiyan @Puyangan5]

Nirmala Sitharaman
Arvind Subramanian
Krishnamurthy Subramanian
.V. Anantha Nageswaran

Damn! Why didn't I notice this before!

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

The Gulf lobby is undefeated when standing together

"Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, United Arab Emirates’ President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Pakistan’s powerful military chief all put in calls to the US leader to urge him against more attacks"
https://t.co/k08vYqyauL

[Arjunamurthy Ra | இரா. அர்ஜூனமூர்த்தி @RaArjunamurthy]

This was something my parents instilled in me at a young age. I grew up in the vibrant city of Chennai, India. It was a comfortable life for the most part, but in those early years, we had some challenges. We worried about severe drought and whether the water truck would arrive in time, and for us, technology came slowly. We had to wait years to get a telephone, a TV, a refrigerator. Each changed our lives in meaningful ways. My parents never let the constraints limit my imagination of what was possible. It's the reason I even let myself dream I could one day work in a faraway place called Silicon Valley.
When the call from Stanford came, my father spent the equivalent of a year's salary to buy my ticket - @sundarpichai

“தமிழன் எங்கு சென்றாலும், எவ்வளவு உயர்ந்த நிலையடைந்தாலும், பணமும் புகழும் அவனது மண்ணின் மணத்தை மாற்றாது என்பதற்கு திரு. சுந்தர் பிச்சை ஒரு சிறந்த உதாரணம்.”

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

My dog after eating my philosophy book

[Smita Prakash @smitaprakash]

Peak Delhi - Sending out Diwali invitation in the month of June. (Diwali is in November)

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

For decades, the story of Mao's rise was wrapped in myth. Historian Frank Dikötter argues the reality was far darker: a marginal movement, Soviet backing, civil war, and a regime built on political paranoia.

Watch a new episode of @UncKnowledge with @P_M_Robinson on X:

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

Aman Ki Asha