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Though I haven’t yet read Sonia Gandhi’s personal memoir “Belonging”, yet; I can imagine that it must be unputdownable & a more gripping story that any novel can be.
What an absolutely remarkable life!
An Italian marrying the son of an Indian PM. Then seeing the emergency and Mrs Gandhi going out of power. Then seeing her going to jail and her remarkable political comeback. Then seeing her assassination & her dying in her arms!
Then seeing her husband become the PM in the biggest political landslide ever. Then watching him lose the election & then being brutally assassinated. Then as she watched the Congress party disintegrate, she reluctantly took the reins of the party & led to its revival & return to power. She abdicated her natural claim to be the PM in favour of Manmohan Singh. Yet she shepherded 5 remarkable pro people laws (The RTI Act; NREGA; The food security Act; the Forest Rights Act; The new land Acquisition Act), through her National Advisory Council. Then finally watched the Congress party humiliated & the rise to power of Modi/Shah who brought in their own brand of communal fascism. All through this, she was subjected to the worst kind of abuse & name calling.
There is little doubt that this personal memoir will cause a political earthquake in India!
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Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out today. It’s built for sustained, long-horizon tasks, reasoning deeply through complex software engineering, cybersecurity, and scientific discovery.
Coming globally via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio and Gemini for business, and for Ultra subscribers in @antigravity, the @GeminiApp, and AI Mode in Search.
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Posted this morning: A very special episode of the Kettle podcast with @mslopatto from @verge discussing the election results with @MattRosoff and @bviglia - check it out here: theregister.com/legal/2026/1… thereaagister.com/legal/2026…
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The enterprise adoption of India's AI stack just got a massive leg up. Welcome onboard, Sashi.
We’re delighted to announce that Sashikumar Sreedharan is joining Sarvam as President and Chief Business Officer. He’ll also join our board.
Sashi joins us as our work with customers grows in scale and scope. He’ll lead our business as we bring Sarvam’s full-stack AI platform to more enterprises and governments and deepen our work with developers and partners.
We're excited for what we’ll build together. Welcome to the team, Sashi!
Read the announcement: sarvam.ai/blogs/sashikumar-s…
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“Rahul and Priyanka, rushed to my arms in tears. When they had been abruptly picked up from school by black-uniformed commandos, they sensed a catastrophe. Once home, they saw some of the staff sobbing.
They asked question after question. “Where’s Mama?” “Why have we been brought home?” “Where’s Papa?” “What’s happened?” “Where’s Dadi?” “You aren’t telling us the truth!”
I wanted to sit with them and hug them, to break the news to them gently, but I was unable to – I had to go back; Rajiv was coming to the hospital.”
For the first time, @SoniaGandhi ji opens her heart to recount the spine-chilling moments of Indira ji’s assassination - not merely the brutal violence against India’s Prime Minister, but the shattering loss of a mother, the pillar of the family, and a doting grandmother.
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As South Asians, we have not yet fully appreciated Amartya Sen’s multidimensional and multidisciplinary contributions.
Beyond his paradigm-changing economic writings on development, he has significantly influenced other fields of knowledge, including ethics, social justice theory, identity politics, feminist thought, secularism, and cosmopolitanism. His well-argued political and cultural writings interrogating Hindutva ideology, Tagore, Hindu-Muslim unity, Bangabandhu (whom he called not just “Friend of Bengal” but also “Friend of the World” in an LSE seminar), and Bangladesh are constant sources of intellectual inspiration.
We wish him a long, healthy, and creative life.
Happy 93rd birthday to Amartya Sen.
He was awarded the 1998 prize in economic sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics."
Sen was born in Santiniketan, Bengal, in India and attended a school founded by another Nobel Prize laureate - Rabindranath Tagore.
ALT Economist Amartya Sen on his bike cycling on a road in India. The sun is shining and he is cycling in the forest. Sen is wearing a blue shirt and shorts.
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Today we’re releasing Sarvam Prism, a System One model built on Sarvam 105B for fast, accurate decisions across enterprise workflows.
It scores 71.8 with a median response time of 44 milliseconds, the highest average score among decision models that respond in under 100 milliseconds.
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New on @dataforin: for an area that is so crucial for public health, data on tobacco consumption in India can be limited and not well disaggregated. Our new work by @nileena_suresh attempts to surface key insights and put this data out there for others to use as well. A thread:
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"Jali ko aag kehte hain, bujhi ko raakh kehte hain, aur jiske dum par sarkar satta mein hai, use Gyanesh kehte hain."
At the INDIA bloc rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, protest against alleged electoral irregularities came in all colours. Delhi University students and party workers from Bastar and Maharashtra took to the streets, saying the 2023 Election Commission amendment law chokes democracy.
Watch @Basantrajsonu's ground report.
Follow Newslaundry for more such updates!
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“Won’t stop me from writing or activism.”
Tongam Rina, deputy editor of The Arunachal Times, is among four people against whom Arunachal Pradesh Police have sought search warrants over violence during protests against the proposed 12,500 MW Upper Siang dam.
newslaundry.com/2026/10/30/w…
Elite consulting firms raise starting salaries for first time since 2022 - ft.com/content/dcfaf62f-497d… via @FT #aitalent #payraise
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Double edged sword: Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh has pointed to AI as one of the reasons the cost of services is falling.
More here: theregister.com/channel/2026…
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This kind of press report by @DainikBhaskar would not be possible under the current DPDP Act. Press organisations are placed in the incredible position of having to secure consent from the “Data Principal” before processing their personal data. The lack of an exception for journalistic reporting, news gathering is unconstitutional and an effort to denude press freedom. The Press does more than report on corruption incidentally, its past exposes have resulted in massive social change, uncovered social evils and other ills gripping society. The Law must either be amended to bring in press reporting and its ancillary tasks including investigation and fact gathering as an exception to the DPDP obligations.
भास्कर की रिपोर्ट है, जरा देखिए:
राजस्थान कैडर के सीनियर आईएएस शिखर अग्रवाल, उनकी आईपीएस पत्नी प्रशाखा माथुर, दोनों बेटे और सास-ससुर ने ढाई साल के भीतर एक ही कंपनी से 40 विला-कॉटेज खरीदे हैं. भास्कर की पड़ताल में सामने आया कि अलवर के अजबगढ़ में 20 विला की मार्च 2026 और उदयपुर के बुढ़ड़ा में 20 कॉटेज की रजिस्ट्री सितंबर 2023 में हुई. इन्हें बेचने वाली कंपनी का नाम गोयल फैशन प्राइवेट लिमिटेड है. इसके देशभर में अनंता नाम से 14 रिसॉर्ट व होटल हैं. आईएएस-आईपीएस दंपती के परिवार ने कंपनी से बुढ़ड़ा और अजबगढ़ के अनंता रिसॉर्ट में ही विला-कॉटेज खरीदे. इनकी रजिस्ट्रियों के दस्तावेज भास्कर के पास मौजूद हैं.
शिखर वर्तमान में राजस्थान सरकार में एसीएस हैं. उनके पास उद्योग, सूक्ष्म, लघु एवं मध्यम उद्योग, सरकारी उपक्रम, दिल्ली-मुंबई औद्योगिक कॉरिडोर और निवेश एवं प्रवासी राजस्थानियों मामलों के विभाग हैं. वे रीको अध्यक्ष और राजसिको के अध्यक्ष भी हैं. उनकी आईपीएस पत्नी प्रशाखा माथुर प्रदेश की एडीजी हैं. वे फिलहाल योजना, आधुनिकीकरण व कल्याण का काम देख रही हैं.
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One in four iPhones is made in India, but imported parts and costly subsidies complicate the success story. @andymukherjee70 takes apart an iPhone to explain why copying China's manufacturing model may not pay off 🎥
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Today, we're bringing OpenAI models to Google Cloud's model garden.
We're now the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed source LLMs—alongside 200+ other models—on a unified enterprise platform → goo.gle/4zJ0VZQ
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A big uncomfortable takeaway from the Sept trade data is that India's software & services exports have started slowing, probably due to A.I.! Sept services surplus was down 10% yoy and April-Sept services surplus was up only 4%. Our goods exports are doing fabulously (up 23% in Sept), so goods trade deficit is declining -down 8.5% yoy in Sept. But it's still a deficit of $30bn for Sept & $177.6 bn for Apr-Sept. That deficit needs to be filled. Slowing services exports, probably due to A.I. is worrying. @FinMinIndia @RBI @CafeEconomics
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India is rolling out a policy for data centers, a minister said, saying the government wants to keep consumers from paying more for electricity as the sector's power use draws concern worldwide. More here: reut.rs/4hNsY4k
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Workplaces are bracing for the smart glasses era ft.trib.al/rNhIEob
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India's CtrlS to invest $1.05 billion to build hyperscale AI factory in eastern India reut.rs/4yMzMoO reut.rs/4yMzMoO
