Ajay Zaveri
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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.~ Diane Ackerman.
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. ~ James Gleick,
Teesta now flows to kill. How the river forgot to forgive. Teesta's love story is narrated in Lepcha wedding songs,but the river now also feared for its anger.What began with melting ice has been worsened by dams and encroachment. @SumanaSiliguri theprint.in/ground-reports…
As an economist I was hesitant reading this book. But was pleasantly surprised. For a sweeping & accurate history of economics, from ancient Greece to contemporary times—George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, all in less than 250 pages, it turned out to be a page turner.
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane." - Graham Greene
From the undercount of COVID-19 deaths to the only leader in a Democracy who never faced a Press Conference and his pet media - A must watch breakdown by Prof. P Sainath. 🎥
174-yr-old Munshi Naan demolished for Hyderabad metro. Breading bad with history.What has kept them true to their roots is the refusal to adopt modern baking techniques. Apparently, the establishment does not use yeast while making naan. theprint.in/feature/174-yr…
BREAKING: Zohran quotes Nehru in his victory speech "I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new. When an age ends & the soul of a nation finds utterance. Tonight we step out from the old to the new"
#TIL Irawati Karve did her PhD on eugenics (!!) under a Nazi supervisor named, aptly enough, Eugen Fischer! And her work disproved the basis of the eugenicists' theories. Fascinating thread, as usual, by The Paperclip below: cc @CafeEconomics
In the late 1920s, a young Indian woman boarded a ship bound for Germany to do her PhD. Her name was Irawati Karve. And she was about to take on one of the most dangerous ideas of her time. Thread. 1/12
I wrote about what breaks in 'breaking news' in Outside, my column for Deccan Herald. deccanherald.com/opinion/when-t…
Matcha madness: Decoding the Japanese green tea that has taken over Kolkata cafes. @Geeky_Foodie telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/foo…
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable and will always be. If you really want to help this world, you will have to teach how to live in it. No one can do that who has not learned how to live in joyful sorrow & sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is. ~Joseph…
Brené Brown on why human skills will keep people relevant in the AI era—even though we aren't good at being human right now. fortune.com/2025/10/29/aut…
Doha’s M. F. Husain Museum celebrates an artist who turned exile into his greatest masterpiece. Lawh Wa Qalam will showcase the artist’s most ambitious creations, including the Arab Civilisation series and Seeroo fi al Ardh cntraveller.in/story/mf-husai…
The democratisation of information is destroying democracy Speaking of Brain Klaas, I keep meaning to link to this widely-cited essay of his which articulates something crucial about what is revolutionary about social media. Previous information revolutions scaled up the…
No matter how you approach it, never suppress your thoughts. Capture them in any form—random notes, full-fledged articles, mathematical explorations, or whatever comes to mind. One day, connections will form, intuition will ignite the idea, and you’ll uncover a path forward. It…
“The world is far too complex...for a solution," Leonard Cohen pointed out, back in 2006. "This is not the realm of solutions.” Perhaps, rather, it's the realm of finding ways to live with calm and clarity in the absence of final answers. - @PicoIyer
The increasing burden of everyday compliances on citizens is now getting ridiculous. KYC updates are unending. Now we have the unbelievable opportunity to know our vehicles. Have you done your KYV? If not the grabbing hands of the government will come after you. @volklub…
💉 I’m pro-vaccine and I don’t want to get into this twitter war… But let’s clear a few things about this “pharma lobby” nonsense. Doctors don’t lose business because of vaccines or medicines. If anything, post-COVID we’re busier and richer because people refuse preventive…
For the pyschotherapist Esther Perel, love is “an active engagement with all kinds of feelings—positive ones and primitive ones and loathsome ones. And it’s often surprising how it can kind of ebb and flow.”nyer.cm/94rBMv1
True patriotism isn’t about chanting slogans. It’s about asking - have we made our nation just, fair, innovative, and compassionate? If not, then the song should inspire us to build that India, not blindly claim it already exists.
When we’re not chasing fame or wealth, we all share the deeper question: what gives meaning when roles fade? My answer has long been clear: curiosity, compassion, learning, art, and thought. That’s why I found contentment without needing to “rebuild” myself after professional…
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