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Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
Brazil has just delivered something the world desperately needed: proof that the authoritarian wave is neither unstoppable nor irreversible. Bolsonarism was defeated, despite the political pressure coming from Trump's America. And the Amazon, once again, has a fighting chance.
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
On behalf of the government and the people of South Africa I congratulate my dear brother and friend, President @LulaOficial and the people of Brazil.
This victory will echo beyond the shores of Brazil. It is a victory for the global south and progressive forces throughout the world.
We affirm our commitment to continue strengthening bilateral relations between our two countries and working closely together in all multilateral fora to forge a just and better world order underpinned by solidarity and adherence to international law.
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
If in the year 2026, we continue to put a venerated species in chains, we cannot claim to be enlightened.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
2/2 Americans don't NEED to know anything about the rest of the world except that it is full of people who apparently want to destroy America. I explore this a bit in my book "Backlash" (World Scientific) on the rise of Trump.
1/2 I would add that the very nature of America makes it so. Americans grow up being told the US is the greatest civilisation that has ever existed. The US has been the sole global hyperpower since the fall of the USSR. It is a nuclear armed continent sized country. Most..
If in the year 2026, we continue to put a venerated species in chains, we cannot claim to be enlightened.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
Boarding on AI 882 AMD-DEL is delayed by 20 minutes because Supreme Court Judge Vipul Pancholi & wife had to be VIP boarded first. They walk in with a posse of 6 guards + 3 AI staffers. Is this the VIP culture that India’s judiciary advocates? @MLJ_GoI ?
#VIPculture 🚨#lalbatti
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
In a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge my journey of love began.
Rajiv and I created a world filled with love, laughter and memories. On 10th November, I share that world with you.
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
BJP govt in Arunachal has taken a set of extraordinary measures to shut down the protests against Siang dam
It has detained activists under APUAPA, arrested protestors, flooded with paramilitary personnel & blocked Facebook accounts
reporting @scroll_in
scroll.in/article/1096598/th…
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
thewire.in/world/trumps-puti… - Trump’s rhetoric is crude, often outrageous, but the strategic logic he is acting upon is neither new nor ‘crazy’. @Bamonouri @MYBISA @USFPgroup @karmanomad @georgegalloway @GeopoliticsDH @informeopeu @CityStGAlumni
One problem : Most of India's best talents - like the young woman from Saharanpur I met this week who is a qualified physiotherapist - want to leave India, @PiyushGoyal
#WATCH | Berlin, Germany | Union Minister Piyush Goyal says, "We are going to be a developed country, a 30 trillion dollar economy by 2047, and we will achieve it... On AI, we have a lot of work happening. In India, we have even startups working on frontier technologies, LLMs... Probably the largest pool of talent in the IT sector is India. So we used and leveraged what they have done and became the supplier to the world of talent to use those things... Similarly, we are not worried in the the new-age world. We are going to absorb AI, quantum computing, and all of these new technologies. Are young boys and girls going to be the only guys available to do cybersecurity and data scrubs..."
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
“The U.S. has benefited from the skills that Indians bring without having had to invest much in their education. Many have earned advanced degrees in America, but the bulk of their training happened in India. A more honest way to see it is that India, along with other poorer countries, has been subsidizing the United States.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
So Delhi. Tall guy in expensive tracksuit w big expensive dog in affluent middle class 'hood. Dog does a dump in the middle of a busy street next to a school. Then guy & dog just walk away.
Same guy in the US or Europe would be mandatorily cleaning up.
But this is Delhi.
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
#Violence is reported to have broken out in #Pasighat after police fired tear gas at youths protesting against the #SiangUpperMultipurposeProject. Police vehicles were also #damaged during the clashes. In one of the widely circulated videos, tear gas was suddenly fired at #protesters while they were speaking.
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
The midterms might spell the beginning of the end of Trump’s long, strange hold on the American electorate, Susan B. Glasser writes. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
In much of the world, trust in America is collapsing.
President Trump believes he is making America's allies support themselves and pay their own bills. But he may instead end up making them build their own nuclear bombs.
My latest column:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Nirmal Ghosh retweeted
Billionaires destroying the life force of the planet and killing future of all young people alive today
Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, estimated quarter of a million trees occupied 815 acres of forest near town of Muhos in rural northern Finland.
Now they are all gone
Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments
And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki
theguardian.com/environment/…