Senior editor @nytimes London by way of Singapore, Mumbai, Washington, Cairo, Nairobi, Kansas City and Cerritos, Calif.
Mar 24, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Last week in Singapore, my wife tested negative for the coronavirus. Here's a short thread about what she experienced as an American living in a country hailed for its success against #COVID19. 1/7
She's 42 and healthy but had to see her physician about a nagging cough and mild chest pain. She had no recent travel or contact with known infected people or clusters, which we knew from the (abundant) publicly available information about Covid-19 cases. 2/7
Oct 25, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: In today's @latimes, a story about @KamalaHarris' grandfather, an upright Brahmin from Tamil Nadu whom she credits (along with her mother and grandmother) with inspiring her career in public service
latimes.com/politics/story…
P.V. Gopalan was a lifelong Indian civil servant, starting as a stenographer in the final years of British rule and eventually serving in a newly independent Zambia as an expert on refugee resettlement.
