1n #FrugalIndian is relieved to eat her first restaurant meal in 6 months: started with a popcorn & vodka cocktail followed by Indian street style potato baskets a la “ragda”, stuffed with a spiced potato salad, organic yoghurt, salsa verde “lucknowaise” & a tangy tamarind sauce
2n followed by poulet frites “a la 65” flavoured with coromandel spices & verdant green curry leaves; and assorted kool-shah “amritsaraise” stuffed with beetroot, truffled cheese & daikon served with traditional accompaniments “poonjabaise”
3n crowned with a fillet mignon done rare (is there any other way to eat a steak?) served with pomme dauphinois, assorted spring vegetables & drenched in a luscious jus. Finished with a banoffee pie
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🧵 This morning was spent at Kibbutz Be’eri. One of the first to be hit on 7/10. The scale of destruction is unimaginable. Most of the stuff we weren’t allowed to film as families haven’t given permission. This was the house of Vivian Silver. She was a peace activist who used to
Take Gazan children for medical treatment and ran contact and employment programmes. They knew exactly who lived here. That didn’t stop them. They poured kerosene on her and burnt her. We don’t know if she was alive or dead when this happened. You can see her kitchen was
Violently looted and destroyed. Initially thought kidnapped, we know know she was killed - her only remains? A single tooth. The next house hit really hard. They leave behind a cat that looks just like my Aprameya & Alamelu. They separated the kids and women in the safe room
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP:🧵full blown rebellion brewing in AAP. After throwing Sisodia to the wolves, Kejriwal today threw Saurabh & Atishi as well. Party leaders telling me “what kind of a leader does this”. Lawyers tellme Keju’s legal strategy is sound. Since he has never signed
a single document this will come down to hearsay. Vijay Nair has already said Keju took all the decisions. Soon Atishi & Saurabh will be implicated by Keju and they will also say Keju took all the decisions. But Keju will say “show me proof - all three colluded & they’re trying
to frame me”. Essentially Kejriwal’s conviction if it happens, will be based on circumstantial evidence. But my AAP sources think from a different angle: this is a ploy to keep Sunita Bhabhi as Rabri Devi part 2 & eliminate all alternate sources of power. In this Keju is right.
🧵 on the interview: 11 minutes in I’m wondering where Putin is going with the history. All accurate history, but what’s being said about Polonisation is equally applicable to the 2/3rds of Russia to the east. Undermining his own point.
.15 mins he acknowledges the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. And the movement west of Poland to what was eastern germany. underplaying Russia’s role. 17 mins the transfer of Russian lands to Ukraine SSR including lands with no connection to it - esp Black Sea. Tucker keeps pushing back.
19 mins - inexplicable ukrainisation including Hungarian, Romanian and polish lands by Stalin-Khrushchev. He says Ukraine is an artifical state (hmm what’s any country? Is there a time limit on authentic state and artificial state). Tucker asks at 21 if Putin told Orban he could
This is a 🧵 of appreciation for @harshmadhusudan @alok_bhatt & @kaushkrahul who have been whacking casteist butt for the past few days. These casteists incidentally are the same ones who collaborated with invaders for a thousand years to preserve their privileges. This is
Also why temples cannot be given back as long as these self-perpetuating casteist parasites abrogate the right to run temples or determine rules in temples they don’t run. Remember these parasites collaborated with those who demolished our Mandirs - for jaziya exemption & gifts.
It was Hindutva which got us the mandir back…. And hindutva’s entire premise is an end to caste - the same caste that weakened us as a nation but enriched these parasites at the cost of our independence. Let’s be clear - none of these casteist scumbags got us back our mandir.
🧵 Narendra Modi went to Lakshadweep to highlight the massive under-utilised tourist potential. Having snorkelled & dived in Lakshadweep & Maldives, I can honestly tell you Lakshadweep lacks nothing. So why are the opposition making fun of this visit? You see in the 1980s Rajiv
Gandhi & family visited Lakshadweep & it suddenly became the go to destination. However except one island - Bangaram admirably & sustainably managed by CGH - no other licenses were granted & the entire area was kept backward and poor with limited connectivity. Today the PM
Essentially heralded what should become an economic opening up of an extraordinary region of India that has deliberately been kept poor. What’s worse for the opposition is that Lakshadweep is 97% Muslim. Their entire narrative of Muslims discrimination & alienation has already
I’m at Delhi’s new T1. Here’s a constructive criticism 🧵
@JM_Scindia. While quite glam & glitzy, this airport is going to have several teething problems going ahead. The airport doesn’t account for the Indian traveller & his/her rule breaking. 1) the security check is too
short and badly planned. The gold standard of this is Doha - where you’re both forced to maintain lines because of the layout, but also you can slowly remove things and place them on the tray for scanning as you move ahead in queue. T1 Delhi ACTIVELY ENCOURAGES rule breaking
With an atrocious layout - people having to move from tray to unpacking to conveyor belt to scanner. Needless to say I’ve never been to an airport where @CISFHQrs give a damn about queues. The last time I complained the jawan told me “you enforce the queue”.