"Hit by the climate we did not warm,and hit again by the wars we did not start." Powerful words by Nepal PM @ShahBalen @PM_nepal_ in his debut @UN speech a month since the devastating Bhotekoshi Trishuli floods that have killed atleast 1400 people and 6000 are missing. Amid ongoing wars and boycott of speeches of leaders at the UNGA, Balen Shah's speech met with strong applause when he reminds the world about who is actually paying the heavy costs for the mindless bloodied war. "Inter-continental missiles arrive on time. Rifles and ammunition cross borders, clear every bottleneck, meet each deadline. But a peasant in Nepal cannot procure his fertilizer or fuel at market price at a time of need. We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food." @SwarnimWagle @bikasrauniar @KanakManiDixit @EONIndia Full speech- gadebate.un.org/sites/defaul…

Why New Delhi is a battleground in the fight over Tata ft.trib.al/TaRd56M

Take look at the responses to @RitikaChopra ‘s tweet to get a glimpse of the vile sexist mind of male trolls let loose to heckle a female reporter who filed a cracker of a report exposing the rot within India’s Election Commission.

Two of the three Election Commissioners have formally objected on record, at least 14 times, to decisions taken and orders issued around the SIR according to an investigative report by @RitikaChopra__ for @IndianExpress My comic for @thenewsminute

Why is one of our most renowned journalists, Ravi Nair being imprisoned in a frivolous case filed by Adani? The Gujarat High Court’s conduct here is most concerning. Rule of law cannot be taken for a ride. Release Ravi now!

The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before. The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t. HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside. Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵 (1/10)

This is an absolute cracker of an investigation by @RitikaChopra__. How an exercise that has impacted crores of voters across the country, leaving many without their right to vote, has been steamrolled despite over a dozen objections by 2 or the 3 election commissioners.

Investigation of the year by @RitikaChopra__. We now know that the disquiet over SIR wasn’t just an Opposition concern. Election Commissioners themselves objected to some of its most alarming decisions, at one point calling it “harassment of young voters” Gyanesh Kumar chose to sideline those objections — one of the reports in the series looks at new addition to Form 6 that required new voters to provide details of whether their parents appeared on electoral rolls from the previous SIR. This single change wreaked havoc on the ground. So many people forced to queue up and produce documents to prove their link to decades-old voter lists. It now turns out there were objections to this requirement from within the EC itself calling it illegal.

Crackdown clouds $46bn IPO of world’s biggest derivatives exchange ft.trib.al/MlspLKX

Crackdown clouds $46bn IPO of world’s biggest derivatives exchange ft.trib.al/wsd5vCg

Read the first of my new Monday interviews… Nik Storonsky’s plan for Revolut: a global bank with ‘effectively zero risk’ ft.com/content/df52a49a-ab6a… via @ft

CEO issues a press release about "VIPs" getting notices- apparently universal adult franchise has a special sub-category in India

Billionaire Tata scion faces battle of his life to avert a listing ft.trib.al/rS6fL2o

People who dont live in NCR - and esp those in the south -- have NO clue how dangerous Delhi NCR roads are. Do read.

Delhi had 1.45 crore voters before the SIR. 47+ lakh are deleted and 31.6 lakh more must prove they’re genuine. That is a purge of over half the capital’s voters. Our team’s big data analysis + ground reporting show the poorest bear the worst of #sirdelhi reporters-collective.in/trc/…

As Noel Tata entered the boardroom, the 69-year-old scion of one of India’s most famous business families knew he had a fight on his hands. @krishn_ @mj_stott @AndresSchipani @christopherkay as.ft.com/r/6b920249-e00c-49…

3 big Quns post Doval-Wang SR talks: 1/ Has India now accepted China's plan for "early harvest" in one sector? 2/What is sequencing of the boundary dispute resolution- will delimitation, delineation and demarcation still be followed? 3/ Have India and China put 2020 Galwan clash behind them- what about buffer zones, status quo ante? Watch #WorldView chat with @ananthkrishnan in Beijing. Link below

Netflix went from Sacred Games to Kapil Sharma. And it’s paying off Once unafraid of showcasing violence, nudity, or state failure, Netflix is slowly becoming a sanitised Indian TV channel

"One in 10 works of mod­ern art sold privately in India could be for­ger­ies." How aca­demic neg­lect, a lack of doc­u­ment­a­tion, and the rise of online buy­ing allow fakes to pro­lif­er­ate in the mar­ket for south Asian mod­ern art. (Today's FT.)

🚨New: India sent around 1.95 lakh takedown notices to social media cos betwen Mar-Jul. That is a censorship notice every minute. Considerable censorship action on posts/accounts related to Jantar Mantar protests. But, Meta's role is also in question 🧵@IndianExpress