Amitav Ghosh

Author most recently of 'Smoke and Ashes'.

[Hansraj Meena @HansrajMeena]

बाड़मेर में गरीब भील आदिवासी परिवारों के आशियाने उजाड़ दिए गए, महिलाएँ और बच्चे खुले आसमान के नीचे आ गए। भजनलाल सरकार बताए कि घर तोड़ने से पहले इन परिवारों के रहने की व्यवस्था क्यों नहीं की गई?

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

ACTUALLY IT REALLY SEEMS TO BE A WORLD RECORD
of the Northernmost Minimum of 30.0C (Ok, 29.9C almost there) ever recorded worldwide.

Paris🗼 just broke a WORLD RECORD.

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

Good grief. The myth of Modi as a Vikas Purush has been demolished.

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) prepares an India Reforms Scorecard, tracking 30 key economic and governance reforms identified by leading economists, business associations, policymakers, and experts in India and abroad.

The findings are devastating.

Modi 1.0 (2014–19):
• Only 9 of 30 reforms were completed.
• 15 remain perpetually "in progress".
• The rest were not even started.

Modi 2.0 (2019–24):
• Just 6 of 30 reforms were completed.
• 5 were started and left unfinished.
• The remaining were never even initiated.

Modi 3.0 (2024–29):
• Only 2 of 30 reforms have been completed.
• 1 is incomplete.
• An astonishing 27 have not even been started.

For a decade, Indians have been sold the image of Modi as a decisive development leader. But beneath the slogans, the photo-ops, and the endless claims of transformation lies a sobering reality: reforms delayed, reforms abandoned, and reforms never even attempted.

The CSIS scorecard strips away years of political marketing. Soon, the funding for Amit Malviya’s lie factory will be doubled.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Opinion: El Niño is coming. India isn’t ready for who it hurts most, write Gojesh Konsam and Sukirti

https://t.co/7vTWdhc31w

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

The only ambition of our deformed Hindutva-fied modernity is to keep the bottom caste-class majority in their place, and to persecute minorities for some abstract ideological fulfilment. That is it. There is nothing more to it, as should have been clear after twelve years of this

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Winning is becoming a habit for @ZohranKMamdani !

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 NYC officially approves a rent freeze on nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in a major win for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

[Climate Change World Media Newshub 24/7 @GNewshub]

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[India Today Global @ITGGlobal]

#EXCLUSIVE: "Israeli soldiers said it was 'like a game'—sitting remotely and killing children."

In a searing interview, Justice S. Muralidhar, Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, discusses findings that allege the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children by Israel through bombings, sniper fire, and drones.

"We had to create a category: Wounded Child With No Surviving Family", he told India Today Global.
@AneeshaMathur

Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/MLY1fR0dWx

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #UN #IndiaTodayGlobal

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

This is so telling. So scary. So concerning. The predictions for 2050, made in 2014, on extreme heat in France, are vastly exceeded, already in 2026. Why? We have underestimated the rate of change. Warming is accelerating. Ocean heat is off the charts. Is Earth losing Resilience?

[Ari Gautier @gautierari]

So excited to be in conversation with @GhoshAmitav today at Melahuset, Oslo— whose work is already shaping policy. Kerala’s CM just cited The Nutmeg’s Curse as inspiration for a proposed International Maritime Museum near Muziris. Literature moves the world. Stay tuned.

[Truthout @truthout]

Left challengers aligned with Zohran Mamdani have unseated establishment Democrats in New York City House primaries, underscoring his argument that the goal is not more Democrats in office, but better ones committed to transformative policy.
https://t.co/bsREo7cH04

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

Here you go. The forcible vegetarianism by Hindutva. The only thing Hindutva in political power can do is target your food, dress, religion, etc, and pamper corporate houses while people reel from poverty, unemployment, climate change and what not.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 All mayor Mamdani-backed candidates won New York primaries in clean sweep, per CNN

- Brad Lander

- Claire Valdez

- Darializa Avila Chevalier

All three of them rejected AIPAC’s money

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Obviously this is Zohran’s night, but it’s worth remembering—and appreciating—the guy who made all of this possible, back when none of it was imaginable.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The grassroots left-wing just knocked the establishment on its ass in New York. Mamdani sends his regards. Corporate Dan Goldman and the other establishment candidates all lost! This is a bona fide voter revolt. The rebellion might have started tonight. Vote out the incumbents!

[Socialist News Media @Socialist_Wins]

All three Mamdani-endorsed candidates have won or are on track to win their Democratic primaries for congress.

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

@vdsatheesan Thank you so much! It would be an honor and privilege.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

JD's answer to @SohrabAhmari's question about Lebanon is CRUCIAL:

1. Importantly, the US now says that a regional ceasefire is an AMERICAN goal and not just an Iranian demand.

2. The deconfliction mechanism in Lebanon is no longer just controlled by the US (which made it meaningless) but includes Iran. That is, reps of both fighting parties are included.

3. And perhaps most importantly, Vance says that ALL countries in the region have a right to self-defense - not just Israel. I can't recall when that was last stated by a senior US official. Certainly not a single time under Biden...

Of course, implementation of these rhetorical positions will be key...