Pradeep Ratnam

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Is the delhi traffic brics advisory just to keep people indoors? I attended a business breakfast event at Imperial with so much trepidation, turned out roads were a breeze, no choking no honking. Once-a-week-stay-home-for-brics should be institutionalised!!

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@VishalBhargava5 Plus. The quality is fairly average now. There are local bakers in Delhi and Bangalore producing better sourdough bread, fresher sandwiches, nicer fillings, tastier brownies. Private equity ownership and the demise of a personalised labour of love?

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@sabizak There’d be more saris though esp amidst the older faculty

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@sabizak Such a paradox that we are separate countries. I could swap this photo for my law school (also graduated in 1997 from National Law School. Bangalore) and caption it. No one would blink an eyelid

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A few weeks of the year when Delhi parks rival Hampstead Heath, Regents Park…..

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Aap ki izzat on Hum/youtube is so crude in its characterisation - and yet one keeps watching! Guilty night pleasure? A secret longing for Humsafar? Or something truthful despite cinematic cringe? Or this voyeuristic fascination for amplified Punj bling out-shadowing ours.

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Delhi Rains! As I drive through our garbage filled potholled city I’m filled with optimism and joy. @MCD_Delhi - a good time to undertake a MICROLEVEL clean, literally 100 m by 100 m stretches, allocating responsibility to RWA/Markets/commercial establishments etc, as applicable

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@Apurvasrani @makkartyres Good soul etc but need assurance that (1) this time they’ll “be different”. See Karnataka. (2) defectors won’t be embraced. (3) Extended family non-interference. No Zardaris, (4) old elites won’t returning with their rapacious ways (5) solid technocrats (6) grassroot democracy.

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@bainjal I’m a bit divided on this. Only because the contrast with Neha fighting for incarcerated kids in Bihar is so stark. I guess the way to rationalise this is CJP is and was a satire morphed into successful movement. Limited agenda re NEET and Pradhan. AISA is manifestly political.

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@chetana_cg As of now credit to all of them. Yes, Neha is very impressive. As are many of the others. Let’s not impute divisions (other than separate institutional affiliations AISA CJP uniting for a common cause).

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@NidaKirmani So true!

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@nikhilverma3079 @SauravDassss @AshutoshRanka @whattalawyer @Vaishnavii_gaur Might be a pro-aap-congy-outcast VERSUS ok-to-outreach-engage-congy slight simmer. Hmmm she’s really very impressive. Ranka too

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@SauravDassss @AshutoshRanka @whattalawyer @Vaishnavii_gaur + @neha_aisa Absolutely formidable

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One most interesting collateral consequence of The Protests is the support it’s garnered from our neighbours. Does this herald a new era of cooperation and growth and a larger South Asian project on common causes? #hope #genz #aragalaya

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When I hear @AshutoshRanka and Neha Bora @aisa_official_ speak I’m amazed at their maturity, poise and political astuteness. Just wow.

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@GhoshSamyak She’s not saying let’s all become sanatanis. She’s saying ‘to those in power Sanataning/espousing supremacist Sanatism, this is perhaps what true S is about’. Courage w/o hate etc. I think it’s fine. But everyone’s going nuts.

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@sabizak I flatshared intensely bromanced with Brit Paki colleague in London. Super guy in one sense but incredibly stereotypical in his understanding of India and subcontinent on the other. Sincere though. Signed up for “Errrdoo” classes in SOAS types.

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@sabizak There’s also an overlay of ABCD/BBCD desis whose parents migrated in the 60s/70s/80s. Their views tend to be super binary/ossified in past and often unconnected with subcontinental realities…

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@sabizak 5) Lastly I get yr sharp critique at Bollywd melded, jarring and grossly misplaced over the top Lucknavi Urdu in heartland Punjab. I wonder if it is the scriptwriters being smug and uncurious (likely) or just biz-pragmatic. 95% of cinegoers on this side won’t tell the difference

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@sabizak 3) Political significance in fraught times, antidote to mainstream jingoism. ✔️ For this I’ll excuse other failings. 4) Dosangh & chacha disagreement (confront past trauma instead of invisibilising, as path to reconciliation and ultimately redemption ✅