After a short hiatus, the newsletter is back! Latest edition up now: aayushsoni.substack.com/p/how-to-ele...

#ManmohanSingh.

Merry Christmas! Songs on loop for the next week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh3A... and: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlJ...

The great Shyam Benegal, pioneer of India’s parallel cinema movement, is no more.

Spotted in khan market today

Need to urgently start a campaign to bring Din Tai Fung to India.

Sad news coming this morning: Absolute Bagels, beloved among Columbia students and assorted New Yorkers, has shut down www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...

That was a missile by Starc to get rid of Gill. Unplayable

Pant is Pant-ing…

A warm welcome to new followers! Will try to post regularly here. Meanwhile some links below: My newsletter on wine and spirits: aayushsoni.substack.com Columns on tech policy that I wrote and/or edited until March 2024 as part of my last job: bit.ly/3Zj7aTL Other writing: bit.ly/4gf94LO

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social reports on how the Trump Administration could use phone-hacking software to surveil citizens and target vulnerable groups. “Every single person should be worried,” a privacy expert said.

Churchill’s England is dead. I’m back in @unherd.bsky.social: unherd.com/2024/11/what...

In which I weigh in on the Diljit Dosanjh-Sudhir Chaudhury-Telangana government kerfuffle and our own attitudes towards booze: aayushsoni.substack.com/p/drink-no-e...

Exceptional innings by #Kohli #IndvsAus. One of his best ever

Hello folks. I'll be looking for work from mid-December onwards. If there are any projects you think could benefit from my experience and expertise in the area of tech policy / law, please do DM me!

this is extremely meticulous

Is it a good time to press my Substack onto the fine people of BlueSky? I hope so. Please sign up. It’s all free! samanth.substack.com

In which Ravish skewers the environment minister: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdQ2...

To be honest joining a new platform just seems like too much work now. I'd just prefer going back to a Nokia 3310 and play Snake I, send snail mail, and if anyone needs me you'd have to fire a yellow flare gun and just hope I somehow see it. Otherwise, you know, tough luck.

To followers old and new, hello! Good to see you here. I started a newsletter about wines and spirits a month ago. Here's the latest edition. Pls read, subscribe, spread word etc etc: open.substack.com/pub/aayushso...

All offerings to the God, digital or otherwise, are really in hope of some cashback.

I don’t (think I) have enemies, but even if I did, I wouldn’t wish the Schengen Visa application process on them.

In case you missed it, the latest edition of my newsletter was out yesterday. Notes from ProWine India 2024: aayushsoni.substack.com/p/prowine-mu.... Pls read, subscribe, spread word etc etc