Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി

Author of 'Mad About Cuba' (@Penguin), 'Kannur', 'The Untold Vajpayee' & 'War Room'. Short story writer. poet. AI watcher. Global Southerner

[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

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[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

Remember #SemraHunter? The presenter who won over India’s World Cup viewers - The former Sports18 and JioCinema host recalls her memorable five weeks in India during Qatar 2022 and explains her new role in ITV’s coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, writes @Ullekh
https://t.co/MPlI1jExix

[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

Football fever: Semra Hunter, former Sports18 and JioCinema host, recalls her memorable five weeks in India during Qatar 2022 and explains her new role in ITV’s coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup
@SemraHunter @itvfootball @JioHotstar @FIFAWorldCup #india

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[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

Football writer and historian Simon Kuper in conversation with @Openthemag

https://t.co/4tUeUWl9eS @KuperSimon

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

#FIFA #WorldCup2026: Let the Spectacle Begin - Football remains the most unpredictable team sport. That’s why the World Cup continues to captivate nations and create myths, writes @Ullekh https://t.co/oRDhseEKMt

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Cuba's Diaz-Canel: "They invented the Cartel de los Soles to go after Venezuela. They kidnapped Maduro -- two days later the cartel vanished. They said Iraq had WMDs -- never appeared. They attacked Iran over nukes -- no nuclear action ever happened. All their lies unravel."

[Chitra Subramaniam @chitraSD]

Read the room people. The young are restless Something good is happening in 🇮🇳. The🪳party is touching something. @annamalai_k’s departure from the #BJP heralds important another thread.

Our country’s future lies in the hands of the young.

As someone who battled a three country 🇸🇪 🇨🇭 🇮🇳 corruption (Bofors) deal that led to the change of a government, I know what I’m taking about. I was young and very ambitious for #India.

I’m no longer 28, but my hopes and ambitions remain firm. As long as we support our young people and their dreams without allowing vested interests to derail & distract us, we’re on track. Jai Hind

[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

Football writer and historian Simon Kuper in conversation with @Openthemag

https://t.co/4tUeUWl9eS @KuperSimon

[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

https://t.co/4tUeUWl9eS

[Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി @Ullekh]

My interview with soccer historian, author and FT columnist @KuperSimon on #FIFA World Cup 2026. Kuper, whose latest book is “World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments”, an account of nine World Cups and football’s transformation, tells us that the sport’s future growth lies in giant markets such as India, China and Indonesia @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup @Openthemag

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[Chitra Subramaniam @chitraSD]

@ullekh is passionate about ⚽️ He knows the history and geography of every game & player & narrates them fabulously. Like 👇🏼
@Openthemag #WorldCup

[LeftWord Books @LeftWordBooks]

Understanding Cuba Bundle 🇨🇺

- On Cuba by @vijayprashad
- If Humanity is a Country by @NitheeshNaranan
- Mad Abount Cuba by @Ullekh
- The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

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💷Offer Price - Rs.1150
🤑Book Club Price - Rs.900

Link : https://t.co/TxlKuFZboj

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

Meet Rajesh Mehta,

Owner of Rajesh Exports

Showed Rs 15.15 lakh crore revenue in 5 Years

LIC invested 2,000+ crores

No one flagged for 5 years

Today SEBI announced Rs 15.15 lakh crore revenue was fake

Rajesh share dropped 80%

LIC lost almost 1,600 crores of common people money.

Believe it or die but Corruption in India is almost at the highest level.

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

Belgium-based pro-Gaza entity seeks arrest of Israeli man 'holidaying' in Himachal: Hind Rajab Foundation alleges that Eitan Gilboa is a war criminal and had filmed himself "ordering, carrying out and celebrating the demolition of civilian homes in Gaza", writes @Ullekh
https://t.co/8UbT3lnJkZ

[Chitra Subramaniam @chitraSD]

@Consortiumnews brings news, views & interviews that mainstream doesn’t. You don’t have to agree with them but often I find their reportage makes me think. This 👇🏼piece is an example. @Ullekh #medi

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

India’s #InformalEconomy is Growing, But Jobs Aren’t: A new UNU-WIDER study says that while the number of informal enterprises has surged, employment growth is poor, highlighting various constraints, inequalities and the limits of self-employment-led expansion, writes @Ullekh
https://t.co/tlClgEmEER

[Dr C José Ramón Cabañas Rodriguez @JoseRCabanas]

.@CIPICuba contribution:
The war against #Cuba and the collateral damage in the United States
https://t.co/PeQEoNz2ry

[Chitra Subramaniam @chitraSD]

@Ullekh 🖊️ a masterpiece on the 🪳party in #India. #mustread

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

The Cockroach Republic: A Dalit founder, political spoof and India’s hunger for humour: Notwithstanding skepticism and cautious optimism, the #CockroachJanataParty (#CJP) is a reminder that dissent, satire and self-mockery are democratic necessities, writes @Ullekh.
https://t.co/93WvKvAjsw

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

The Cuba lobby is the Israel lobby's Caribbean franchise. Reagan's people told the exile leadership to "copy the Israeli lobby," and they did.

They turned exile grievance into PAC money, PAC money into congressional discipline, and congressional discipline into sanctions law.

That is why the U.S. blockade survives every president, every UN vote, and every humanitarian catastrophe it creates.

You can see the coalition in the annual UN vote, where the planet says end the blockade and Israel keeps showing up as Washington's loyal second.

The machinery began in 1981, when the Cuban American National Foundation was built on the AIPAC model. The public face was "freedom for Cuba."

The operating system was donor money, congressional targeting, and laws no president could casually undo. The result was Torricelli in 1992 and Helms-Burton in 1996, the legal cage that still structures Cuba policy.

In 2003 CANF reconstituted itself as the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC. Mauricio Claver-Carone explained the model without euphemism: after Castro, the PAC would keep helping Cuba "much like the Jewish community extends a hand to Israel."

Cuba was being imagined less as a country than as an Israel-style client project.

In 2011, the American Jewish Committee launched the Congressional Latino-Jewish Caucus. The point was explicit: to bind U.S., Latin American, and Israeli politics into one congressional lane.

We can see the pattern: whenever Latin America criticizes Israel, the caucus translates it into Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, terrorism.

Colombia criticizes Israel and the translation is immediate: "surrender to terrorism and to the Ayatollah's regime in Iran." That is how Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Israel become one Washington sentence.

The deliverable is Marco Rubio.

Little Marco is the Cuban-American politician Norman Braman bought early and carried far. His owner Braman is a Miami billionaire, founding chair of the Holocaust Memorial, $10 million Georgetown Jewish Civilization donor, UF Holocaust Studies funder.

Braman put roughly $6 million into Rubio's super PAC, helped fund his FIU salary, paid Jeanette Rubio's company more than $275,000, and accompanied Rubio on his first senator-elect trip: Israel.

The investment paid out.

The first payout was 2017: Rubio helped kill Obama's Cuba opening. Then Cuba was welded to the same terror-state category as Iran and Syria.

Diaz-Balart handled the congressional side: fund Israel, protect Jerusalem, defund UNRWA, punish the ICC, restrict Cuba. AIPAC thanked him by name.

The endpoint came in 2026: Rubio explaining that the U.S. struck Iran because it knew Israel would move and knew Iran would answer.

The Cuba lobby did not just ally with the Israel lobby. It learned from it, staffed with it, legislated beside it, voted with it, and now governs through it.