Subroto

Author | Co Founder The Peninsula Studios. Recording conversations with people who moved the needle.
Leadership • Strategy

[Subroto @SubrotoC]

I join dots across strategy, statecraft, history and human behaviour. In 1971, every one of those dots converged in one crisis that remade South Asia and still shapes it now.

4 despatches a week. 1 indispensable story.

Bangladesh: Humiliation, Carnage, Liberation, Chaos.

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@TheBrownBeagle @AkbaruddinIndia Congratulations @TheBrownBeagle this is marvellous

[Gordon Corera @gordoncorera]

The tribute ends with a happy memory of appearing with him on MasterChef which aired on the BBC just last week, an experience which he seemed to enjoy. You can sign up to the newsletter here - https://t.co/NKVqWYeUAM

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Sir Alex RIP

In Mr. Younger’s view, one common weakness of leaders was to conflate seniority with knowledge, when “the people who really understand what’s happening are the people with the least power.”

[Financial Times @FT]

Alex Younger, former head of MI6, has died at age 62. In 2020, he spoke to the FT about global threats — and why we still need ‘garage shed’ spycraft.

Read the piece from our archive: https://t.co/cO7sNVxndH

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RIP Sir Alex

Did you know

president Hamid Karzai enjoyed sweetening his tea with jam 😊

https://t.co/GJAI4K88PW

Best Subroto

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@praveenswami The candidate needs to be a gum shoe to not realise he is walking into a spiders parlour

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It’s a great idea.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Kim Jong-un welcomed Naegohyang Women’s FC after the team became the first from North Korea to win the AFC Women’s Champions League.

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Sir Alex Younger

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There is empirical evidence but the inforgraphic and the strategy behind it is telling

[Mao Keji | मुखर्जी @kejimao]

The diagram below visualizes what brain drain looks like in India's case.

There's a strong positive relationship between the PISA scores of natives in countries and the scores of second-generation immigrants whose ancestry is from those countries.

That India is the most striking outlier in the diagram tellingly demonstrates how the West harvests and siphons off the brightest Indian talent, as measured by average PISA scores, much more aggressively than it does to other countries.

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 The forgotten 1976 interview where the Shah of Iran went completely off-script on the Israel lobby...

"They are controlling many things..."

The interviewer, Mike Wallace, couldn't believe it.

Years before his kingdom was toppled, he was expressing the same concerns so many have today.

Source: 60 Minutes (YouTube)

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@mukulkesavan In my building cricket, this kind of batting was called rounders

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I do give @praveenswami a slow read.

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

I do not understand why some Indian and Pakistani strategic planners think very short nuclear reaction times are unique to our context. NATO and the Warsaw Pact shared borders, too, and planned on having to react in seconds to the launch of a first strike. (1/3)

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@IN_NavalAcademy @IN_WNC @IN_HQSNC @IN_HQENC @indiannavy @IndiannavyMedia @MIB_India @PIB_India @airnewsalerts @DDNewslive @SpokespersonMoD The future is in safe hands, these are the cradles that shape the nation.

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I ran some numbers,

1st how much has the #Rupee #depreciated against a set of currencies in the past 24 months and the next what has been the CAGR of depreciation over 20 years

Full disclosure: I use multiple AI platforms for my queries and then convert to infographics.

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#bangladesh

[Derek J. Grossman @DerekJGrossman]

"For many years, India was a key training ground for many of Bangladesh’s senior officials, as well as a source of support and regional guidance. Now, some are being trained in Pakistan, a symbolic shift that has unsettled New Delhi..."
https://t.co/OJa2ShSpR4

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I like to watch and read @Athersmike former England captain, his piece on leadership advice from the great Ian Chappell. I say these these useful and universal.

[Mike atherton @Athersmike]

In the process of decluttering I found some old notes from Ian Chappell on captaincy that I’d been given 30 years ago. Still valid now for aspiring captains https://t.co/Cza2LjdcEX

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#JLN

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

The American historian Granville Austin noted the dangerous poison spread by the no. 1 GADDAR of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, even in his death on this day.

On the afternoon of 27 May 1964, as the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death spread through New Delhi, Austin made his way to Teen Murti House. He was writing a thesis on the making of the Indian Constitution in those days.

What he noted in his diary the next day on 28 May, 1964 was published thirty years later in @the_hindu on 29th May 1994.

He wrote - "all wanted to go in, but they were prepared to wait’. The crowd stood, ‘orderly and not noisy’, as diplomats and ministers were ushered in by the prime minister’s staff."

Among the VIPs was Dr Syed Mahmud, a veteran freedom fighter who had been with Nehru at Cambridge and in jail.

Like the others, Austin walked up the steeply sloping lawn that fronted the prime minister’s residence and he wrote in his diary next day :

"I saw a weeping Mahmud given a helping hand by Jagjivan Ram, a senior Congress politician and Cabinet minister of low-caste (so-called) origin.

This was truly a scene symbolic of Nehru’s India..... a Muslim aided by a so-called Untouchable coming to the home of a caste Hindu."

The Very dangerous poison of fraternity, unity. However, today under the unanswerable, unaccountable govt of Modiji we have successfully been able to eradicate all these toxic things that could hurt our Vishwaguru Nation.

Thank you Modiji. 🚩

Hashtag Gaddar Nehru. 🌹

Hashtag Nehru Ki Galti. 🌹

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@VGokhale59 I will buy and read your book Mr. Gokhale, congratulations on having written it. Our understanding of China is superficial

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[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

Our response to media queries regarding unwarranted references to Indian Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir in the Joint Statement between China and Pakistan ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/HfkNLnQU9L

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[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

STORY | Iran’s nuclear dust can be destroyed in US or another location under IAEA supervision: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Iran's enriched uranium can be turned and destroyed in the US, but his preference is for it to be destroyed "in place" or at "another acceptable location," under the supervision of the IAEA.

READ: https://t.co/uJwdVhR0Ck