I recently discovered the “Everything Is Everything” podcast by @amitvarma & @ajay_shah and I loved it so much that I felt like we needed a book companion for all those incredible recommendations!
So here it is: https://t.co/3XgSyoAlaa
India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha was my best read of 2025. I wrote my reflections here: https://t.co/t3xx3KdNa8
If you want to know how modern India came to be, this is the book!
Got around to listening the final episode of Everything is Everything podcast. What an amazingly informative body of work! Thank you @ajay_shah and @amitvarma!!
To people getting upset about the politics of the day - if you study history, you'll find that this is the default state of humanity.
You are almost always living amongst large masses of people getting high on delusion, and dividing into "us" vs "them" and speed runnng holy wars
The great sin of our age is incuriosity. People are not motivated to learn, they are not motivated to pursue knowledge. We need a generation of students that are hyper-literate, a generation that rejoices in reading. If there's any hope for the future, it begins in the library.