Sugandha Batra

Lawyer, Delhi

[Alter Magazine @AlterMagIndia]

A Kanchipuram Sari is not mere fabric.
It is a language with grammar, a financial instrument you can wear, a biological object dyed with chemistry, & a cultural archive woven by history & hand.

For over a millennium, it functioned as liquid wealth. In desperate times, the silk could be burned away, leaving behind real silver & gold.

A garment that protected its wearer, even in fire.

Today, that loom meets AI, microbes, & cryptography — systems trying to relearn lost grammar, grow colour without poisoning land, & turn trust from promise into proof.

What happens when a thousand-year-old loom meets 21st century’s thinking machines?

Issue 3: Kanchipuram Saris & Thinking Machines, written by Nivedita, designed & built by @AltCarbonIndia

https://t.co/VI6AwcmAWs

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

Adv: What the Quran requires us to do is perform Haj with our own earnings only and not from the subsidies provided by the Govt at all.

SC: But is not claiming this exemption is also getting a subsidy from the Government? and also getting money of Govt? #hajtax

[Bharti Jain @bhartijainTOI]

Third wave warnings? Not advisable to open schools in India this year as well....

[Aisi Taisi Democracy @AisiTaisiDemo]

ये आंदोलन बिकाऊ होता तो भाजपा इसे कब की ख़रीद भी चुकी होती।

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Asked Microsoft CEO @satyanadella about India's new Citizenship Act. "I think what is happening is sad... It's just bad.... I would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant who comes to India and creates the next unicorn in India or becomes the next CEO of Infosys" cc @PranavDixit

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

If economic growth is stagnating at below 5% level, and inflation is running up to 7.3%, we have the exact definition of the ‘stagflation’ Dr Manmohan Singh had warned us about in parliament...

It’s a full-fledged economic emergency...

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

The Supreme Court of India has thirty-four sitting judges.

[Azmi Shabana @AzmiShabana]

“InsaaN ki khwaishoN ki koi inteha nahiN/ Do gaz zameeN bhi chahiye do gaz kafan ke baad” #Kaifi Azmi

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Today is Halloween, a day where Americans try to scare people without using foreign policy.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Today is Halloween, a day where American kids go from door to door asking for sweets, because they don't have Indian mothers.

[Sugandha Batra @Sug148]

What does the failure to present a serious Manifesto this time mean for the party that aspires to lead the next government?

[Sugandha Batra @Sug148]

So we won't be seeing Amitabh Bachchan on the TV anymore saying "do boond zindagi ki". India is now polio free :D

[Lauren Christine @Laurenchristin0]

In the love story starring you and mutton, toothache is the villain.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Nokia is developing a method of harvesting radio-waves, which would recharge your phone while it's on standby.

[Sugandha Batra @Sug148]

I live in a city everyone claims to hate, yet they never leave!

[Abhay Singh @iabhaysingh]

Yes Darby, I want to take Jessica down.
Ohh my, this is getting interesting.

[Shekhar Kapur @shekharkapur]

Why allow the very foreign co's that brought West 2 collapse in 1998, to mop up Indian middle class savings? #FDI in #Insurance