I write my columns sitting in a New Haven café, eating waffles and lattés served by comely young immmigrant waitresses. Here’s how women ruined my workplace. by Ross Douthat

Unwrapped @blaft.bsky.social

A photo essay by the amazing @mumbaipaused.bsky.social www.oneating.in/proteins-and...

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Drawings by me of televisions from movies E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Videodrome (1983) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

#CarCultureinIndia Kshatriya कुलावतंस behind the wheels: OBC कुलावतंस on Mumbai streets.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

#marathaprotest Jarange fans camping at CIDCO exhibition centre in Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Baigaan!

Jarange fans

Day 2: The Maratha / Jarange protest. Protestors who stayed overnight at vashi Cidco exhibtion centre and APMC heading for Azad Maidan. Another interesting day for Sobo

Latest news from Modi’s pet cheetah project

Mumbai: Paused on August 29th. Maratha / Jarange protestors from interior MH going to Azad Maidan to protest via Navi Mumbai.

This is why I subscribe to the FT and am happy to see it on my doorstep every morning. Great story, the work of reporters in three different cities. So prefer this to recycled press releases and clickbait written by someone in the office - or AI, I sense increasingly…

Over the last 15 years, the Shri Shakti Mariamma temple has become a place where women seek refuge. However it now faces complaints from a neighbor who objects to the loud drums during worship services. scroll.in/article/1085... Prajwal Bhat writes

An excerpt from my new novel, Alice Sees Ghosts in @scroll.in.web.brid.gy ! scroll.in/article/1085...

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"There really is no such thing as the Democratic Party anymore. The party's fortunes are just a referendum on how much the public hates Republicans at any given moment." drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/t...

#FoodandtheCity At a farm by the rail tracks in the new home for 5 star hotels of Navi Mumbai - the Turbhe T Junction near Ikea.

Trust in global companies like Google, Amazon and Meta is at an all-time low. News that our videos are being edited without permission goes to show that consumers are spot on in not trusting these commercial giants. #AI www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Jhansi Ki Raani - At Kopar Khairane mini marshalling yard

Reading and the city

Mumbai: Paused on August 26th. Greens growing on the farms adjoining the tracks on Transharbour Line - Between Sanpada and Turbhe.

“I showed my Aadhaar card and a copy of my birth certificate, but the police didn't relent,” he said. “They asked me why I didn't have a voter card and called me a Bangladeshi.” scroll.in/article/1085... The 19-year-old became eligible to vote only last December. Anant Gupta reports

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#Ladakh | The land was allotted to him in 2018. scroll.in/latest/10858... #SonamWangchuk described the move as a “witch-hunt” to suppress the demands of residents in the region.

Seeking Tales and Sipping Whiskey in a Shack Floating Down the Bayou www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

#SlowLane | What India gained & lost in #OperationSindoor might take a long time to establish. But the surge of nationalism after it has licensed the state to turn the screws on freedom of speech. scroll.in/article/1085... Nowhere is this more evident than in Assam, writes Amrita Dutta.

#FoodandtheCity Gulgula in Sri Saravana, the small working class Tamil eatery next to Vashi bus depot/ Labour naka.

Banned! A selection of books that have been considered “degenerate filth”. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Walk Economy: Fish sellers in a Navi Mumbai local train station

Indians with Palestinians

Some of the current battles over citizenship have reached the courts, but what we hear is not encouraging because the very documents that people are frantically trying to collect may be of limited or no use. scroll.in/article/1085... Samar Halarnkar writes.

So, due to new US tariffs and the lack of customs people there to process stuff, the Indian government has suspended all export mail to the USA 😭 Looks like this may screw us up quite badly. If anyone wants to buy an ebook today, it will make us happy: www.blaft.com/collections/...