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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Photojournalist Ed Kashi and documentary filmmaker Julie Winokur have crafted visual narratives on ageing, migration, poisoned neighborhoods, rising seas. Here, they discuss long-form storytelling: how time becomes a collaborator, and why bearing witness matters youtu.be/DfaGnptzvdg?...
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The Long Frame: Stories that outlast Time: Ft Ed Kashi & Julie Winokur
YouTube video by From The Marginlands
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
In India’s theatre of patriotism, yesterday’s enemies are today’s business partners. And we are all actors in a drama whose script we haven't seen. My post, on the shape-shifting nature of India’s “enemies”:
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The theatre of forgetting
In India’s theatre of patriotism, yesterday’s enemies are today’s business partners. And we are expected to forget our lines.
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Rahul Bhatia @rahulabhatia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Questions to authority
Two nights ago I attended the launch of [In]Complete Justice?, S Muralidhar’s book of essays about the state of India’s Supreme Court, which turns 75 this year. The hall at India Intern…
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Skimming through a playlist and got stuck on this, now playing on loop (You really need a DAC to get the most out of this). Clapton, John Mayer, Doyle Bramhall II on guitar. Abe Laboriel Jr on drums. Robert Randolph on steel guitar, Sheryl Crow to round it off. Enjoy youtu.be/DqeT7QCmhjY?...
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"Crossroads" - Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Doyle Bramhall II, Robert Rundolph (Live 2008)
YouTube video by CrowVideoTV3
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Rahul Bhatia @rahulabhatia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Over the past few days, I’ve learned of three fine reporters/editors building their own publications because Indian newsrooms have turned conservative. Times are hard now, but there are people quietly building for the future. Every newsletter done right is a potential institution. Defiance adds up.
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Excellent reporting by M Rajshekhar, who goes behind the headline-making ban on online gaming and comes up with a tale of politics, and lobbying, and vast amounts of money. Read:
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Special | What Explains the Union Government’s U-Turn on Online Money Gaming?
Industry officials were taken by surprise when the government pushed through a Bill banning online money gaming. But what had led to its boom in the first place, and what has it meant for ordinary Ind...
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A conversation with @rahulbhatia.bsky.social just now reminded me that I have this account, which I had forgotten all about. Time to get back, I think.
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
The latest news from the chamber of horrors we are turning our country into: prempanicker.wordpress.com/2023/07/…
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You cannot be serious?
Outside of the infamous 36 seconds on the opening day of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is yet to say a word about the situation in Manipur. This, despite more stories coming out every day a...
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
A piece I wrote on the political moves and countermoves that played out in Bangalore and Delhi over the past couple of days: prempanicker.wordpress.com/2023/07/…
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The “INDIA” gambit
And so, over the last two days in Bangalore, the nascent opposition alliance firmed up its intent and roster and gave itself a name: INDIA. There is some confusion about the parentage of the acronym, ...
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
The rejigged BCCI selection committee headed by Ajit Agarkar, made interesting choices for the team to play five T20s against the Windies. My post, pointing at what for me is the most interesting of those choices: the captain. prempanicker.wordpress.com/2023/07/…
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The captaincy conundrum
A day after Ajit Agarkar was picked to fill the vacancy caused by the exit of chief national selector Chetan Sharma (on which more in this post), the selectors under his leadership met to pick a team ...
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
The recent World Test Championship, the selection for the Windies tour, and the ODI WC schedule threw up dozens of questions. To no purpose, because no one will answer. My piece: themorningcontext.com/chaos/no-ques…
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No questions, no answers: How the BCCI’s institutional omerta is normalized
Questions are pointless unless they are met with answers. In the case of the BCCI, responses are scarce—and whatever answers do surface are sourced to anonymous “senior Board officials”.
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 07/06/2023
Kind attention Bangalore people: On Monday June 12, the wonderfully eloquent Arati Kumar-Rao is at BIC, doing a show and tell around her new book Marginlands. Details here: bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/ev…
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Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink - Bangalore International Centre
An Environmentalist’s Journey RSVP here
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 06/06/2023
In this morning's edition of The Morning Context, I have a piece out on the ongoing wrestlers' protests, and the wider issues surrounding the central event. Link here, thoughts much appreciated): themorningcontext.com/chaos/in-the-…
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In the akhara of Indian politics, India’s wrestlers are the losers
Five months since the wrestlers started their protest and 20 months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi knowing about the sexual abuse, we are nowhere close to a solution.
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prempanicker.bsky.social @prempanicker.bsky.social · 03/06/2023
A baby step into this new world. Fingers crossed it proves to be more friendly, and less toxic, than the blue bird.
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