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Hindustan Times

4 days ago

#HTOpinion | " The other, and probably less talked about reason, is that, even before the Ukraine war started, in their last stint in the UNSC (2019-2020), Germany adopted an aggressive, almost irascible, approach vis-à-vis China and Russia making them more determined to stop Germany. The Ukraine and Gaza war only precipitated this anti-Germany mood." @TSTirumurti ✍ Know more 🔗 https://t.co/hFHjpcS3ec

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " The other, and probably less talked about reason, is that, even before the Ukraine war started, in their last stint in the UNSC (2019-2020), Germany adopted an aggressive, almost irascible, approach vis-à-vis China and Russia making them more determined to stop Germany. The Ukraine and Gaza war only precipitated this anti-Germany mood."

@TSTirumurti ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " The other, and probably less talked about reason, is that, even before the Ukraine war started, in their last stint in the UNSC (2019-2020), Germany adopted an aggressive, almost irascible, approach vis-à-vis China and Russia making them more determined to stop Germany. The Ukraine and Gaza war only precipitated this anti-Germany mood."

@TSTirumurti ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " The other, and probably less talked about reason, is that, even before the Ukraine war started, in their last stint in the UNSC (2019-2020), Germany adopted an aggressive, almost irascible, approach vis-à-vis China and Russia making them more determined to stop Germany. The Ukraine and Gaza war only precipitated this anti-Germany mood."

@TSTirumurti ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " The other, and probably less talked about reason, is that, even before the Ukraine war started, in their last stint in the UNSC (2019-2020), Germany adopted an aggressive, almost irascible, approach vis-à-vis China and Russia making them more determined to stop Germany. The Ukraine and Gaza war only precipitated this anti-Germany mood."

@TSTirumurti ✍

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Hindustan Times

5 days ago

#HTOpinion | "Every day, citizens entrust banks, fintech platforms, social media companies, e-commerce platforms and ed-tech firms with sensitive financial, biometric, and personal information. When these entities fail to protect that data, the State must be equipped to respond swiftly. Section 36 provides that capability while remaining firmly tied to the Act’s objective of safeguarding privacy and ensuring lawful processing of personal data." @Shehzad_Ind ✍ Know more 🔗 https://t.co/XM1pyZscFf

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Every day, citizens entrust banks, fintech platforms, social media companies, e-commerce platforms and ed-tech firms with sensitive financial, biometric, and personal information. When these entities fail to protect that data, the State must be equipped to respond swiftly. Section 36 provides that capability while remaining firmly tied to the Act’s objective of safeguarding privacy and ensuring lawful processing of personal data."

@Shehzad_Ind ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Every day, citizens entrust banks, fintech platforms, social media companies, e-commerce platforms and ed-tech firms with sensitive financial, biometric, and personal information. When these entities fail to protect that data, the State must be equipped to respond swiftly. Section 36 provides that capability while remaining firmly tied to the Act’s objective of safeguarding privacy and ensuring lawful processing of personal data."

@Shehzad_Ind ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Every day, citizens entrust banks, fintech platforms, social media companies, e-commerce platforms and ed-tech firms with sensitive financial, biometric, and personal information. When these entities fail to protect that data, the State must be equipped to respond swiftly. Section 36 provides that capability while remaining firmly tied to the Act’s objective of safeguarding privacy and ensuring lawful processing of personal data."

@Shehzad_Ind ✍

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Every day, citizens entrust banks, fintech platforms, social media companies, e-commerce platforms and ed-tech firms with sensitive financial, biometric, and personal information. When these entities fail to protect that data, the State must be equipped to respond swiftly. Section 36 provides that capability while remaining firmly tied to the Act’s objective of safeguarding privacy and ensuring lawful processing of personal data."

@Shehzad_Ind ✍

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Hindustan Times

6 days ago

#HTOpinion | "Pakistan has also sought to internationalise the treaty by bringing up the climate crisis and related issues. The arguments are designed to garner wider international sympathy, at a time when water security is a global concern. In an article in the Washington Post in January 2009, Asif Zardari, who is president now as he was then, while pleading to the US president Barack Obama to recognise Pakistan’s role in the US’s war on terrorism and regional stability, seized the opportunity to raise water concerns with India." @UKSinha_idsa ✍️ #IndusRiver #India #Pakistan Know more 🔗 https://t.co/WXwUFxG1wY

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Pakistan has also sought to internationalise the treaty by bringing up the climate crisis and related issues. The arguments are designed to garner wider international sympathy, at a time when water security is a global concern. In an article in the Washington Post in January 2009, Asif Zardari, who is president now as he was then, while pleading to the US president Barack Obama to recognise Pakistan’s role in the US’s war on terrorism and regional stability, seized the opportunity to raise water concerns with India."

@UKSinha_idsa ✍️

#IndusRiver #India #Pakistan

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Pakistan has also sought to internationalise the treaty by bringing up the climate crisis and related issues. The arguments are designed to garner wider international sympathy, at a time when water security is a global concern. In an article in the Washington Post in January 2009, Asif Zardari, who is president now as he was then, while pleading to the US president Barack Obama to recognise Pakistan’s role in the US’s war on terrorism and regional stability, seized the opportunity to raise water concerns with India."

@UKSinha_idsa ✍️

#IndusRiver #India #Pakistan

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Pakistan has also sought to internationalise the treaty by bringing up the climate crisis and related issues. The arguments are designed to garner wider international sympathy, at a time when water security is a global concern. In an article in the Washington Post in January 2009, Asif Zardari, who is president now as he was then, while pleading to the US president Barack Obama to recognise Pakistan’s role in the US’s war on terrorism and regional stability, seized the opportunity to raise water concerns with India."

@UKSinha_idsa ✍️

#IndusRiver #India #Pakistan

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Pakistan has also sought to internationalise the treaty by bringing up the climate crisis and related issues. The arguments are designed to garner wider international sympathy, at a time when water security is a global concern. In an article in the Washington Post in January 2009, Asif Zardari, who is president now as he was then, while pleading to the US president Barack Obama to recognise Pakistan’s role in the US’s war on terrorism and regional stability, seized the opportunity to raise water concerns with India."

@UKSinha_idsa ✍️

#IndusRiver #India #Pakistan

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Hindustan Times

8 days ago

#HTOpinion | " The rest of it would be painfully familiar to millions of women farmers for whom “survival is a daily act of navigating risk, debt, and indignity,” finds a 2025 study by Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM) on structural violence against rural women workers where Usha’s story finds place." @namitabhandare ✍ #Farmers #India Know more 🔗 https://t.co/ELsPkrHaJj

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " The rest of it would be painfully familiar to millions of women farmers for whom “survival is a daily act of navigating risk, debt, and indignity,” finds a 2025 study by Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM) on structural violence against rural women workers where Usha’s story finds place."

@namitabhandare ✍

#Farmers #India

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Hindustan Times

8 days ago

#HTOpinion | "We describe what we have to say, we search out specific adjectives that convey our meaning and perhaps this is why in the process we use too many and usually all of the superlative sort. The British, on the other hand, prefer to express themselves with metaphor and aphorism. Consequently, their language is rich with idioms. Ours is almost devoid of them." @kthaparoffice ✍ #India #English #language Know more 🔗 https://t.co/mKPOdCHwvM

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "We describe what we have to say, we search out specific adjectives that convey our meaning and perhaps this is why in the process we use too many and usually all of the superlative sort. The British, on the other hand, prefer to express themselves with metaphor and aphorism. Consequently, their language is rich with idioms. Ours is almost devoid of them."

@kthaparoffice ✍

#India #English #language

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Hindustan Times

10 days ago

#HTOpinion | "Literature festivals in India are no longer ecstatic about partnering with the Embassy of Israel, either because of ideological solidarity with Palestine or because they fear being cancelled by writers who support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel." @chintanwriting ✍ #Israel #LGBTQ Know more 🔗 https://t.co/APyExw4Bbs

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Literature festivals in India are no longer ecstatic about partnering with the Embassy of Israel, either because of ideological solidarity with Palestine or because they fear being cancelled by writers who support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel."

@chintanwriting ✍

#Israel #LGBTQ

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Hindustan Times

10 days ago

#HTOpinion | "India’s digital payments architecture has rightly been celebrated as a public policy success. Through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the country built interoperable payment infrastructure that prevented platform dominance from translating into payments dominance. WhatsApp Pay’s limited success despite its massive user base illustrates that open public infrastructure can preserve competition." Tarun Kumar ✍🏻 Ashish Bharadwaj #Meta #Cred #Data Know more 🔗 https://t.co/DK6LCBrbQJ

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "India’s digital payments architecture has rightly been celebrated as a public policy success. Through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the country built interoperable payment infrastructure that prevented platform dominance from translating into payments dominance. WhatsApp Pay’s limited success despite its massive user base illustrates that open public infrastructure can preserve competition."

Tarun Kumar ✍🏻 Ashish Bharadwaj

#Meta #Cred #Data

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Hindustan Times

11 days ago

#HTOpinion | "Nadella’s intuitiveness should sober up India’s AI chest-thumpers. If Microsoft, with all its money, cloud infrastructure, engineers, enterprise customers, and inside access to OpenAI, is preparing to use cheaper Chinese models, why should India spend billions trying to build a giant model of its own?" @wadhwa ✍ #AI #India Know more 🔗 https://t.co/rXHP97FQxU

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Nadella’s intuitiveness should sober up India’s AI chest-thumpers.

If Microsoft, with all its money, cloud infrastructure, engineers, enterprise customers, and inside access to OpenAI, is preparing to use cheaper Chinese models, why should India spend billions trying to build a giant model of its own?"

@wadhwa ✍

#AI #India

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Hindustan Times

12 days ago

#HTOpinion | "Historically, the collegium system itself is a judicial creation rather than a constitutional mandate. It emerged out of institutional anxiety over executive interference in judicial appointments in the years after the Emergency." @insiyahv ✍️ #SupremeCourt #India #CollegiumSystem Know more 🔗 https://t.co/lI05s4osVS

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Historically, the collegium system itself is a judicial creation rather than a constitutional mandate. It emerged out of institutional anxiety over executive interference in judicial appointments in the years after the Emergency."

@insiyahv ✍️

#SupremeCourt #India #CollegiumSystem

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Historically, the collegium system itself is a judicial creation rather than a constitutional mandate. It emerged out of institutional anxiety over executive interference in judicial appointments in the years after the Emergency."

@insiyahv ✍️

#SupremeCourt #India #CollegiumSystem

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Historically, the collegium system itself is a judicial creation rather than a constitutional mandate. It emerged out of institutional anxiety over executive interference in judicial appointments in the years after the Emergency."

@insiyahv ✍️

#SupremeCourt #India #CollegiumSystem

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "Historically, the collegium system itself is a judicial creation rather than a constitutional mandate. It emerged out of institutional anxiety over executive interference in judicial appointments in the years after the Emergency."

@insiyahv ✍️

#SupremeCourt #India #CollegiumSystem

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Hindustan Times

12 days ago

#HTOpinion | " One need only look at Article 18, and the anti-feudal nature of the Constitution becomes clear. Article 18 forms part of the Constitution’s equality code. Its abolition of titles marked a decisive break from India’s colonial and feudal past. Colonial governance relied heavily on honorific distinctions — Raja, Maharaja, Nawab, Rai Bahadur, Sir — to reward loyalty to the colonial government and reinforce hierarchy. Titles created distance between rulers and the ruled. " @BaudhSumit ✍ #India #Constitution Know more 🔗 https://t.co/CKLW0vK7Qb

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " One need only look at Article 18, and the anti-feudal nature of the Constitution becomes clear. Article 18 forms part of the Constitution’s equality code. Its abolition of titles marked a decisive break from India’s colonial and feudal past. Colonial governance relied heavily on honorific distinctions — Raja, Maharaja, Nawab, Rai Bahadur, Sir — to reward loyalty to the colonial government and reinforce hierarchy. Titles created distance between rulers and the ruled. "

@BaudhSumit ✍

#India #Constitution

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " One need only look at Article 18, and the anti-feudal nature of the Constitution becomes clear. Article 18 forms part of the Constitution’s equality code. Its abolition of titles marked a decisive break from India’s colonial and feudal past. Colonial governance relied heavily on honorific distinctions — Raja, Maharaja, Nawab, Rai Bahadur, Sir — to reward loyalty to the colonial government and reinforce hierarchy. Titles created distance between rulers and the ruled. "

@BaudhSumit ✍

#India #Constitution

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " One need only look at Article 18, and the anti-feudal nature of the Constitution becomes clear. Article 18 forms part of the Constitution’s equality code. Its abolition of titles marked a decisive break from India’s colonial and feudal past. Colonial governance relied heavily on honorific distinctions — Raja, Maharaja, Nawab, Rai Bahadur, Sir — to reward loyalty to the colonial government and reinforce hierarchy. Titles created distance between rulers and the ruled. "

@BaudhSumit ✍

#India #Constitution

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | " One need only look at Article 18, and the anti-feudal nature of the Constitution becomes clear. Article 18 forms part of the Constitution’s equality code. Its abolition of titles marked a decisive break from India’s colonial and feudal past. Colonial governance relied heavily on honorific distinctions — Raja, Maharaja, Nawab, Rai Bahadur, Sir — to reward loyalty to the colonial government and reinforce hierarchy. Titles created distance between rulers and the ruled. "

@BaudhSumit ✍

#India #Constitution

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Hindustan Times

13 days ago

#HTOpinion | "As the Indian crude basket climbed from the low $70 to over $120 a barrel within weeks and LPG import costs surged by almost 46%, predictions of shortages and runaway inflation became commonplace. Yet, by the time the Strait began reopening in late June, those fears had largely failed to materialise." @amitabhk87 ✍️ #StraitOfHormuz #LPG #India Know more 🔗 https://t.co/wiUcLvHZUu

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "As the Indian crude basket climbed from the low $70 to over $120 a barrel within weeks and LPG import costs surged by almost 46%, predictions of shortages and runaway inflation became commonplace. Yet, by the time the Strait began reopening in late June, those fears had largely failed to materialise."

@amitabhk87 ✍️

#StraitOfHormuz #LPG #India

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "As the Indian crude basket climbed from the low $70 to over $120 a barrel within weeks and LPG import costs surged by almost 46%, predictions of shortages and runaway inflation became commonplace. Yet, by the time the Strait began reopening in late June, those fears had largely failed to materialise."

@amitabhk87 ✍️

#StraitOfHormuz #LPG #India

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "As the Indian crude basket climbed from the low $70 to over $120 a barrel within weeks and LPG import costs surged by almost 46%, predictions of shortages and runaway inflation became commonplace. Yet, by the time the Strait began reopening in late June, those fears had largely failed to materialise."

@amitabhk87 ✍️

#StraitOfHormuz #LPG #India

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htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "As the Indian crude basket climbed from the low $70 to over $120 a barrel within weeks and LPG import costs surged by almost 46%, predictions of shortages and runaway inflation became commonplace. Yet, by the time the Strait began reopening in late June, those fears had largely failed to materialise."

@amitabhk87 ✍️

#StraitOfHormuz #LPG #India

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Hindustan Times

17 days ago

#HTOpinion | "These contrasting views come to mind because Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone for the Museum of the Royal Kingdoms of India, which is intended to redress “neglect” of the Native States by highlighting their role in shaping India’s “political identity”. This invites the question: Why did public opinion turn from admiration to dismissiveness? How did we go from Naoroji to Gauba?" Rahul Sagar ✍ Know more 🔗 https://t.co/xlN9DHvgx2

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | "These contrasting views come to mind because Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone for the Museum of the Royal Kingdoms of India, which is intended to redress “neglect” of the Native States by highlighting their role in shaping India’s “political identity”. This invites the question: Why did public opinion turn from admiration to dismissiveness? How did we go from Naoroji to Gauba?"

Rahul Sagar ✍

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Hindustan Times

18 days ago

#HTOpinion | Though India is a signatory to the UNCAT, allegations of torture are prosecuted under provisions for murder, hurt, wrongful confinement, or custodial death @majadhun ✍🏻 Read more about it: https://t.co/dkwfyQFL27

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Hindustan Times

18 days ago

#HTOpinion | Sea of information, yet unresolved conversation: Michael Jackson is a test of engaging with complexity, ✍🏻@sunandaraoerdem Tap to read: https://t.co/6ZIo0hpWob

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | Sea of information, yet unresolved conversation: Michael Jackson is a test of engaging with complexity, ✍🏻@sunandaraoerdem

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Hindustan Times

about 1 month ago

#HTOpinion | How women experience summers in the city It is sizzling in the roughly 25-square foot room where she lives with her husband and four children. A tiny fan circulates hot air in the still room on the topmost floor of a ramshackle narrow building in Sunder Nagari in north-east Delhi. There’s a small open terrace where Gulshan cooks — on firewood since gas cylinders are both unavailable and unaffordable. She asks me to touch a steel utensil. It feels as hot as if she has just taken it off a flame. Like many women in the locality, Gulshan, whose husband drives a rented auto-rickshaw, takes on poorly-paid piecemeal work. Every extra bit counts. But her work — sewing pockets on cosmetic pouches for ₹5 per pouch, each with six pockets — has dried up. She had bought a sewing machine when there was work in the winter months. Now, monthly instalments to pay off the machine are accumulating. With schools shut, the children are at home and Gulshan would rather have them indoors than run around in the lanes below. She believes she can get a job since she has studied up to the 10th grade but her husband won’t give her permission saying she will get ‘spoilt’. Stuck at home in the claustrophobic heat, everything stresses her, she breaks down in tears: “I feel so anxious all the time.” @namitabhandare ✍️ Know more: https://t.co/4FJkzWZmCp

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | How women experience summers in the city

It is sizzling in the roughly 25-square foot room where she lives with her husband and four children. A tiny fan circulates hot air in the still room on the topmost floor of a ramshackle narrow building in Sunder Nagari in north-east Delhi. There’s a small open terrace where Gulshan cooks — on firewood since gas cylinders are both unavailable and unaffordable. She asks me to touch a steel utensil. It feels as hot as if she has just taken it off a flame.

Like many women in the locality, Gulshan, whose husband drives a rented auto-rickshaw, takes on poorly-paid piecemeal work. Every extra bit counts. But her work — sewing pockets on cosmetic pouches for ₹5 per pouch, each with six pockets — has dried up. She had bought a sewing machine when there was work in the winter months. Now, monthly instalments to pay off the machine are accumulating.

With schools shut, the children are at home and Gulshan would rather have them indoors than run around in the lanes below. She believes she can get a job since she has studied up to the 10th grade but her husband won’t give her permission saying she will get ‘spoilt’.

Stuck at home in the claustrophobic heat, everything stresses her, she breaks down in tears: “I feel so anxious all the time.”

@namitabhandare ✍️

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about 1 month ago

#HTOpinion | ‘When people are fighting for democracy, we should support them.’ Marjane Satrapi wrote in a letter to the French government in January 2025, barely six months before Israel bombed her birthplace, Rasht, a city in northern Iran. The US joined Israel’s attacks six months later, on the pretext of ushering in democracy, killing Ayatollah Khamenei on February 28, 2026. Iran and the larger West Asia region continues to bleed since then. And Marjane Satrapi has “died of sadness”. The celebrated French-Iranian novelist and filmmaker was a hero to at least two generations of women, and not just in Iran. It was easy to relate to her dark but delightfully illustrated coming-of-age tale, Persepolis. Sure, not all of us wear hijab or grew up in the fear of being caught by the religious police for doing normal things in normal times, but all of us have certainly felt, at least once in our lives, being treated as worth just half a man. @TedhiLakeer ✍️ Know more: https://t.co/xcDRubyFvY

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | ‘When people are fighting for democracy, we should support them.’ Marjane Satrapi wrote in a letter to the French government in January 2025, barely six months before Israel bombed her birthplace, Rasht, a city in northern Iran. The US joined Israel’s attacks six months later, on the pretext of ushering in democracy, killing Ayatollah Khamenei on February 28, 2026. Iran and the larger West Asia region continues to bleed since then.
And Marjane Satrapi has “died of sadness”.

The celebrated French-Iranian novelist and filmmaker was a hero to at least two generations of women, and not just in Iran. It was easy to relate to her dark but delightfully illustrated coming-of-age tale, Persepolis.

Sure, not all of us wear hijab or grew up in the fear of being caught by the religious police for doing normal things in normal times, but all of us have certainly felt, at least once in our lives, being treated as worth just half a man.

@TedhiLakeer ✍️

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about 1 month ago

#HTOpinion | Last month, a headline in this newspaper caught my attention and captured my imagination. It read: “Pakistan to restore original names of Lahore streets”. What a wonderful idea! Why don’t we do something similar in Delhi? I’m sure the denizens of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, as those cities were originally called, could be tempted to follow suit. Maryam Nawaz, the Chief Minister (CM) of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has approved a plan to restore the original historical names of streets in Lahore. The idea is to revive the city’s pre-Partition heritage. Apparently, the inspiration comes from her father, the former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif, who is the head of the Lahore Heritage Area Revival Project. Soon names like Queen’s Road, Davies Road, Lawrence Road and Empress Road will be restored to new life. So too – and this is the marvel of it – will be names like Ram Gali, Laxmi Chowk, Jain Mandir Road, Mohanlal Bazar, Sundar Das Road, Bhagwan Pura and Shanti Nagar. With this one incredible step, Lahore is embracing its history. More importantly, it’s remembered a truth about cities we’ve forgotten. They have their own spirit and culture. Their own identity and ambience. Each is different from the other because each is unique and particular. And each is grounded in its past, which is its character and, even, its raison d’être. @karanthaps ✍️ Know more: https://t.co/oKKoUpLdtD

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | Last month, a headline in this newspaper caught my attention and captured my imagination. It read: “Pakistan to restore original names of Lahore streets”. What a wonderful idea! Why don’t we do something similar in Delhi? I’m sure the denizens of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, as those cities were originally called, could be tempted to follow suit.
Maryam Nawaz, the Chief Minister (CM) of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has approved a plan to restore the original historical names of streets in Lahore. The idea is to revive the city’s pre-Partition heritage. Apparently, the inspiration comes from her father, the former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif, who is the head of the Lahore Heritage Area Revival Project.

Soon names like Queen’s Road, Davies Road, Lawrence Road and Empress Road will be restored to new life. So too – and this is the marvel of it – will be names like Ram Gali, Laxmi Chowk, Jain Mandir Road, Mohanlal Bazar, Sundar Das Road, Bhagwan Pura and Shanti Nagar.

With this one incredible step, Lahore is embracing its history. More importantly, it’s remembered a truth about cities we’ve forgotten. They have their own spirit and culture. Their own identity and ambience. Each is different from the other because each is unique and particular. And each is grounded in its past, which is its character and, even, its raison d’être.

@karanthaps ✍️

Know more: https://t.co/oKKoUpLdtD

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Hindustan Times

about 1 month ago

#HTOpinion | Perhaps the greatest benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it has provoked a much needed public discussion on technology. The unquestioned growth of technology is driven by the belief that technology is nothing more than a collection of gadgets that are acultural and ahistorical. Gadgets are only defined by their use value and are presumably under the control of humans. The fear about what AI can do is now forcing us to pay attention to such naive assumptions about technology that have led us to this stage. The latest to wade into this debate is Pope Leo XIV, the current spiritual leader of millions of Catholics as the head of the Vatican. In a timely and much-needed document, the Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas released on May 15, 2026, the Pope sets out a clear argument about the dangers of AI, as well as some ways to respond to them. He begins by pointing out that AI is challenging our basic ideas of humanity and this has serious implications for the future of the human race. The future cannot be decided by a few technologists who control today’s technology. He is not taking an anti-technology position, for right in the beginning, he notes that technology is needed. But echoing what many scholars have argued, he emphasises that technology is ‘never neutral’, since it takes on the qualities of ‘those who devise, finance, regulate and use it’. The consequence of this is that when we buy a technological product, we are actually buying into the worldviews and belief systems of those who produce these technologies. We should see technologies as Trojan horses for cultural invasion. Sundar Sarukkai ✍️ Know more🔗 https://t.co/ApxwST5O03

htTweets's tweet photo. #HTOpinion | Perhaps the greatest benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it has provoked a much needed public discussion on technology. The unquestioned growth of technology is driven by the belief that technology is nothing more than a collection of gadgets that are acultural and ahistorical. Gadgets are only defined by their use value and are presumably under the control of humans. The fear about what AI can do is now forcing us to pay attention to such naive assumptions about technology that have led us to this stage.
The latest to wade into this debate is Pope Leo XIV, the current spiritual leader of millions of Catholics as the head of the Vatican. In a timely and much-needed document, the Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas released on May 15, 2026, the Pope sets out a clear argument about the dangers of AI, as well as some ways to respond to them.

He begins by pointing out that AI is challenging our basic ideas of humanity and this has serious implications for the future of the human race. The future cannot be decided by a few technologists who control today’s technology. He is not taking an anti-technology position, for right in the beginning, he notes that technology is needed. But echoing what many scholars have argued, he emphasises that technology is ‘never neutral’, since it takes on the qualities of ‘those who devise, finance, regulate and use it’. The consequence of this is that when we buy a technological product, we are actually buying into the worldviews and belief systems of those who produce these technologies. We should see technologies as Trojan horses for cultural invasion.

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