Rohan Venkat

Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Managing Editor: @CASIPenn || Previously: @scroll_in

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

Mekhala Krishnamurthy arrived at Penn fresh from fieldwork in Harda. In the library, she found that the Indologist William N Brown had spent his early years in Harda too, a century prior:

My conversation with @CASIPenn's first postdoc:

[Claire Parker @cparker_reports]

“The journalists told their lawyers that they had been beaten, forcibly stripped, subjected to electric shocks and threats, and forced to record filmed confessions during their detention before being brought before prosecutors, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the defence team.”

[M.R. Sharan @sharanidli]

Enjoyed chatting with @RohanV about the ideas, circumstances and people that birthed and inspire GRAMA (@gramagov).

Rohan is an amazing and perceptive interviewer, full of probing yet kind questions that meant we covered a broad range of topics.

Link: https://t.co/PZrk60iG4G

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

@popeyed @kikumbhar For a second I wondered why Walton Goggins was tweeting about Kiran's work...

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Excl: Face-off with China continues at multiple locations in Arunachal: ITBP D-G . First official confirmation on skirmishes between PLA and Indian Army since July, that were on even when Xi Jinping visited Delhi for BRICS. @vijaita reports @the_hindu
https://t.co/j655oJ6snX

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

@not_ias @70sBachchan Ah yes, @70sBachchan, read all of this: https://t.co/jcGJZ2B26a

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

"Policy makers in India recently asked a remarkable and unusual question by global standards... The SECI-discovered thermal mimicking price for renewable power is now 10 per cent cheaper than new coal... We have crossed a tipping point." https://t.co/fUd7WRkGdf

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

At this year’s @litlivemumbai , I shall be in conversation with Naresh Fernandes, the brilliant editor of @scroll_in . The session is titled “Gandhi Matters”, and will be held at the NCPA’s Experimental Theatre, 24th October, 630 pm onwards.
@tajmahalfoxtrot

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Visit of External Affairs Minister Jaishankar to Azerbaijan (October 23, 2026)marks a full, positive turnaround in ties post Op Sindoor tensions in 2025.
https://t.co/4jr5XQoOgE

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

"What is distinctive in 2026 is the combination of the two, where surveillance records generated at one protest were used to direct pre-emptive action before the next... to restrict and detain those who could arrive, miles away from Delhi."

https://t.co/AwXXz4mLZs

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

"I must confess that I know nothing whatever about true underlying reality, having never met any. There are many people who say they have, I know, but they’ve luckier than I."

https://t.co/34JPMjlKKx

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

@PinstripeBungle Would buy 10 each of the red and the green (Pravin brand, not Kissan) everytime I flew out of Bombay

[Rohan Venkat @RohanV]

"Anger has been the driving force for most political movements. Yet the anger that is taken seriously and considered politically valid is most often male."

@NidhiSuresh_ on "a slow shift in the ownership and performance of rage."

https://t.co/YoWdCWEJDW

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Few editors say it so plainly. Speaking at the RSS Vijayadashami celebration in Nagpur, Dainik Jagran editor-in-chief Sanjay Gupta declared: “The ideology of the Sangh and Jagran is one at the point of loyalty and dedication to Indian Sanatan culture and the nation.”

https://t.co/LzJXeMcPJT

[Louise Tillin @louisetillin]

Openings for THREE research associates (impact) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King's. You should have a PhD in a discipline related to faculty research (political economy, security studies/IR, development, geography, global health, education,communication)

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

As Sharjeel Imam is being debated…

[m rajshekhar @mrajshekhar]

I can categorically say this claim from @DelhiPolice is a lie. It took the phones.

“We did not take anyone’s phones. These people misplace their phones themselves or leave them at home. They then put pressure on the police.”

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

World's 4th largest refining capacity (and due to Ukrainian strikes on Russian plants, probably world's 3rd largest if measured as "usable capacity" right now)

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

It was great to meet with Indian External Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar and UAE Foreign Minister @ABZayed to discuss regional energy security and advance our shared economic priorities.

[Malavika Raghavan @teninthemorning]

A bit late posting my piece for @IndianExpress on #ECINET's role in autocratic digitisation
https://t.co/ItWu3MRQbs

Frames the use of IT+"quasi-legal" orders to subvert the law, challenging the view that digitisation = better accountability & transparency. 3 key concerns👇(1/n)