Samira Sood

Journalist, communications strategist, author. Words in TOI, ThePrint, Conde Nast, DK, The Nod. Debut book published by Penguin Random House.

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

Important PSA: the WhatsApp forward doing the rounds about Daler Mehndi's Tunak Tunak Tun having 168 Tunaks and 64 Tuns is FAKE NEWS. I fact-checked and what I found will shock you. (1)

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@HathwayBrdband I cannot share my mobile number on a public platform. You will need to follow me so I can inbox you.

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Pls resolve urgently asap @HathwayBrdband I have called up now five times this week and received no confirmation.

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@HathwayBrdband I have called three times this week to get the broadband service cancelled due to relocation & despite assurances, received no confirmation as to when it will be done. Kindly resolve this asap.

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@HathwayBrdband Even on the app there is no facility to cancel the service. I have already raised a ticket. Please advise and send someone asap to collect the router/modem.

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@HathwayBrdband I cannot inbox you unless you follow me back, since I don't have a blue tick. Pls follow back until this issue is resolved. Thx.

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@HathwayBrdband You will have to follow me on X so that I can inbox you.

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@HathwayBrdband I am not able to inbox you as I don't have a blue tick. Pls advise urgently.

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@HathwayBrdband I have called three times this week to get the broadband service cancelled due to relocation & despite assurances, received no confirmation as to when it will be done. Kindly resolve this asap.

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@Apkal @aayushsoni Then I think there needs to be a clearer understanding of what constitutes correction and what, in fact, needs correction. Pushing a child to the floor for a dance mistake/threatening them with transfer warnings for falling down is not it.

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@Apkal @aayushsoni To shift blame to parents, that too w/o knowing if they could even afford private counselling, is a bit much. Clearly the chile did try with the school counsellor but how safe a space is that? Also he should not NEED counselling for bullying from teachers in the first place.

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

Excited to share that my first book, a children's title, has been published by @PenguinIndia and is out! (Buy here: https://t.co/FiC6gDh6Ia). I hope you and your little ones like the story and the gorgeous artwork by Ayeshe Sadr and Ishaan Dasgupta.

[Umar Khalid @UmarKhalidJNU]

In 2005, Manmohan Singh faced black flags in JNU as a protest against his economic policies. It became a big news. The admin immediately sent notices to students. The very next day, PMO intervened & asked the admin not to take any action as protest was students' democratic right.

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

A gentleman and a statesman. We didn't deserve him. #ManmohanSingh

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

An extremely full and extraordinarily distinguished life has ended.

Chief Economic Adviser, Finance Secretary, Governor RBI, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Finance Minister, and Prime Minister of India.

An alumnus of both Oxford and Cambridge. Winner of the prestigious Adam Smith Prize at Cambridge in 1956.

Soft-spoken, sober, and always dignified, he had a steely resolve. He was the technocratic transformer of the Indian economy through his 1991, 1992, and other budgets. His Prime Ministership saw revolutionary legislation relating to rural employment, tribal rights, reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and OBCs, primary education, food security, and land acquisition. The Indo-US nuclear agreement was a landmark that enhanced India's global status. His Prime Ministership saw the highest GDP growth rate in the country’s history.

He was a gentleman to the core, and one who bore no ill-will or malice to anyone. He believed in and practised the politics of dialogue, consensus, and accommodation even under difficult circumstances. Humility and integrity defined him. Those who sought to besmirch him revealed their own true colours. Many of the initiatives he took as PM were marketed, branded, and projected as his successor's contributions. But Dr. Singh never minded and would give his trademark smile.

He recruited me to the Planning Commission in Sept 1986 and since then it, was my good fortune to have been associated intimately with him for the next 38 years.

In his inimitable and distinctive way, Dr. Manmohan Singh has left his indelible imprint on our history.

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

Dr Singh's towering contribution to India was ignored as a louder, brasher politics took over. But history WILL remember him well. For his intellect, integrity, & the ironic fact that though ridiculed for his silence, he, at least, faced the press confidently & respectfully.

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Thank you for your service, Shyam Benegal. Because it is a service, what you did. It went beyond filmmaking. It was patriotism, it was humanity. Thank you. #ShyamBenegal

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Every word.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

To every guy who came into comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” & demand I give more props to good guys…It’s time to be quiet

Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

Looking like a crappy voter turnout yet again. I just got to my polling booth and there are, like, 8 people in the queue. Come ON, Bombay. #MaharashtraElection2024 #Maharashtra

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

If it was a men's #INDvPAK match, the viewership numbers would be in millions/crores, and the top 10 trending topics on any social media would be this. But, well. Even #INDvPAK is no match for sexism.

[Sportskeeda @Sportskeeda]

A peach from Renuka Singh Thakur as she dismisses Gull Feroza for a duck! 🔥

The perfect start that India wanted 🤩🇮🇳

🇵🇰: 1/1(1)

#INDvPAK #Cricket #T20 #WorldCup

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

In which @ImHarmanpreet and I talk about the gender pay gap, being the first Indian face of Barbie's new campaign, the upcoming Women's #T20WorldCup, and more🏏

[The Nod @TheNodMag]

Harmanpreet Kaur doesn’t care what people think of her aggression.

We sat down with the captain of the Indian cricket team, and the first Indian face of Barbie's You Can Be Anything campaign.

Read more:
https://t.co/JNY4LNiU5l

@ImHarmanpreet @Barbie

[Samira Sood @samirasood]

Met the wonderful @mehtahansal to chat about everything EXCEPT The Buckingham Murders. We talked about fear, failure, the obsession with box-office and social media numbers, the many Indias that exist, Call Me Bae, and much more. https://t.co/GZOVnkTerl @TheNodMag