Sudeep Paul

Deputy Editor, OPEN Magazine; Formerly of The Indian Express (Opinion)

A nation that can't laugh at itself is doomed.

RTs≠Endorsement. Views are personal

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Listening to Comfortably Numb on loop.

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Another book on the Cambridge Five? Well, Stalin's Apostles by @Tonisenior breaks new ground. There might have been no Soviet empire without them. My review in @Openthemag. Uncle's Joe's Best Men: The Human Cost of the Cambridge Five's Ideological Purity
https://t.co/t42w3DAay0

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"Poriborton is permanent for the vanquished... it is difficult to see TMC lasting much longer. To a losing incumbent, Bengal offers annihilation," I write in @Openthemag Poriborton Supercharged

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#Verdict2026: Poriborton Supercharged - #BJP tapped into Bengal’s Hindu subconscious and its digital-age impatience with misgovernance, writes @sudeeppaul
https://t.co/wEsaa1xDHc

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

While #WestBengal is different from most of North India, #TMC tried to make people forget that Hindu revival and reformation found their first confident articulation here after a long and intricate encounter with western thought, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/wEsaa1xDHc

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The Abandoned Kejriwal - Brain drain from #AAP leaves #ArvindKejriwal politically isolated. The latest issue of the magazine is now available. Enjoy good writing and original arguments ~ @prasannara @RajeevDOpen and Amita Shah, @rahulpandita @Suhelseth @MakrandParanspe @curbset, Sohini Dey @lennyspeaks @nooranand @suvirsaran @Sudeeppaul @cpmadhavan @kavereeb and others...

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King Charles III: Royal Counsellor - He was the perfect vehicle for Britain’s message to Trump’s America, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/ANUfLfpz2o

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Who’s Running #Iran? The regime today is not a government but a fractured and contested command structure. The IRGC has the guns trained on Hormuz and the civilian leadership but it isn’t in total control, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/GCAPQogpO4

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EU’s failure to provide Péter Magyar with the tools to dismantle the Orbán state or a return to complacency would let Putin still have the last laugh. And JD Vance might get the idea that his trip to Budapest was not wasted after all. #MagyarVictory #HungaryWillBeFree

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#HungaryElections2026: It Will Take Time and Vigilance to Dismantle Viktor Orbán’s System: The Hungarian election has repercussions beyond the EU but Péter Magyar and a relieved Brussels should learn from Donald Tusk’s predicament in Poland, writes @sudeeppaul
https://t.co/NDRqaN9Cc5

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THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION was not a revolution but a coup. The triumph of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong was not inevitable either.

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

Book review: Red Dawn Over China by Frank Dikötter: The title of historian #FrankDikötter’s new book is a play on Edgar Snow’s 'Red Star over China' which created the Mao legend for the world and made him a household name in China, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/ZtVheaqSvM

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#HungaryElections2026: It Will Take Time and Vigilance to Dismantle Viktor Orbán’s System: The Hungarian election has repercussions beyond the EU but Péter Magyar and a relieved Brussels should learn from Donald Tusk’s predicament in Poland, writes @sudeeppaul
https://t.co/NDRqaN9Cc5

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

From today’s Russian papers: “You don’t have to be an economist to forecast a recession: Russia’s export revenue is falling, budget revenues are falling, taxes rising, consumer demand shrinking…” Another paper: “Oil & gas revenues fall…rise in bread prices.” #ReadingRussia

[Siddharth Singh @curbset]

The iron law of India’s political economy, impossibility of sustained public investment, macroeconomic stability and populist spending, is breaking down. “welfarism” is now about maintaining political stability in an era of high growth. @Openthemag https://t.co/ZdqpYRKX8V

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

#Openomics2026: Continuity and Conviction - The performance state at its peak - The latest issue of the magazine is now available. Enjoy good writing and original arguments ~ @prasannara @HaseebDrabu @capitalcalculus @Swapan55, Harsh V Pant, @viveksans @RajeevDOpen @nayyardhiraj @curbset @lennyspeaks, R Mukundan @lekhachakrborty @krishna_pravin @Ullekh @Suhelseth Myna Mukherjee @suvirsaran @kavereeb and others...

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The Indian patriot/nationalist/half-decent citizen should say: Dear #ShehbazSharif, Yes, #Kashmir will become a part of Pakistan. Only because Pakistan will become a part of India. Again.

[S. Prasannarajan @prasannara]

Inside:⁦@swapan55⁩⁦⁦@HaseebDrabu⁩⁦@capitalcalculus⁩⁦@RajeevDOpen⁩⁦@Ullekh⁩⁦@cpmadhavan⁩⁦@sudeeppaul⁩⁦@lennyspeaks⁩⁦@Suhelseth⁩⁦@kavereeb⁩

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Strange Homelands: Best of Non-Fiction 2025: My choice.
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
W.G. Sebald: Silent Catastrophes: Essays
@chrishreiter & @WillWilkesNews: Broken Republik
https://t.co/oh059fctKa

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Why Messi's trip to Kolkata turned messy... Before him, there was Maradona, and still earlier, Pelé himself. In b/w, there was 'No Kapil, No Test' in 1984. Why this happens only, or mostly, in Kolkata/Calcutta. My piece in @Openthemag KOLKATA AND KISMET.

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

#2026NewYearIssue: Kolkata and Kismet: #IndianFootball’s story began in the city, sowing its soil with a passion often overwrought but never restrained, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/2VqwMe86QH

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#2026NewYearIssue: Kolkata and Kismet: #IndianFootball’s story began in the city, sowing its soil with a passion often overwrought but never restrained, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/2VqwMe86QH

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“As far as the submarine cable is concerned, there is no Plan B... It isn’t so much an agent of globalization as the agent of globalization.” Fascinating read from @samanth_s Review in @Openthemag

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Wired Planet: The internet runs on 900,000 miles of fragile undersea cables. Samanth Subramanian captures the wonder, writes @sudeeppaul https://t.co/YdOdvCCcfx

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#2026NewYearIssue: The latest issue of the magazine is now available on Magzter. Enjoy good writing and original arguments. In this issue @prasannara @rammadhav_ @ShashiTharoor @Swapan55 @ramindesai @Ullekh @RajeevDOpen @sudeeppaul @tca_raghavan @rahulpandita, @SumanaSiliguri @carlopizzati @suvirsaran @cpmadhavan @NavtejSarna @kavereeb, Amita Shah, Sohini Dey, Shylashri Shankar, Tishani Doshi, Arundhathi Subramaniam and others

[Sudeep Paul @sudeeppaul]

Sometimes Delhi surprises. Sitting in a café where they are playing Engelbert Christmas songs on the PA. That's so yesterday's Calcutta.