Varun Andhare

writer, instructor @ashokauniv; book reviews @deccanchronicle and @theasianagenews. he/him.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Opening ceremony of the 1986 México World Cup in Estadio Azteca

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[Pop Detective @PopDetective]

“AI is not going anywhere” is a PR line from a gen AI company press release that’s trying to make their bad broken technology seem inevitable. It’s bullshit. Please stop repeating it.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This should tell you the absolutely abject level of AI literacy among literary critics and publishers.

Sigrid Rausing is the publisher of Granta, probably the most prestigious literary magazine in the English-speaking world.

And Rausing holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University College London.

In response to the criticism that Granta published an AI-generated story, they ran the story through Claude and asked if it was AI-generated.

Even people like Rausing don't understand that Claude or any other AI can never tell you with certainity if a text is AI-generated or not.

[Kim O'Connor @shallowbrigade]

People will talk about syntax and em dashes or whatever the markers of a current model are taken to be. But the real signature of literary AI is when it feels somehow overwritten and underwritten at the same time

[Nakshatra @nborgaonkarx]

Interior view of the Red Fort by S Paul

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

inside the pakistani conspiracy of making sure people live in sub-human conditions so they can one day hit the streets. garbage collection directly managed by ISI

[Varun Andhare @VarunAndhare]

Joining the chorus of praise for Daniyal Mueenuddin's new novel in this Sunday's @DeccanChronicle:

https://t.co/2DpR76CAmb

[Varun Andhare @VarunAndhare]

@ugghhtkarsh @DelhiNCRRoomi no, the room will come unfurnished

[Kieran Cunningham @KCsixtyseven]

Sally Rooney on Mo Salah.
From The Guardian in 2017.

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

im supposed to believe this is necessary so women can wear their hair out in public

[jaboukie @jaboukie]

Fitness influencers got got so bad. They got u in 4k doing a CrossFit tough mudder triathlon ur not dodging that draft ur gna have to shoot that foot

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments--a surprise hero of the present age.

[Varun Andhare @VarunAndhare]

new review from sunday's @deccanchronicle: megha majumdar's latest, a guardian and a thief, fails to do justice to the dystopian calcutta it conjures – another in a line of literate yet disappointingly vacuous NRI novels

https://t.co/sDNLbLolq3

[Varun Andhare @VarunAndhare]

new review out in today's @deccanchronicle and @theasianagenews: kiran desai's new novel, the loneliness of sonia and sunny, feels too much like the product of a bygone cultural moment

https://t.co/UAyiUH6xiK

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

if you want a picture of the future, imagine being fed cocomelon from the cradle to the grave

[Ishu @would_you_will]

Very excited to be hosting @kunalpurohit at Ashoka University tomorrow! He will talk to us about how a story he was investigating turned into an entire book that gave so many of us access to a cultural world we never see (algorithmic bias).

Do come by!! 6:30 pm tomorrow.

[Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet]

Sally Rooney’s Ireland