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New York, NY
Joined September 2008
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Toward the end of "Charlie Wilson's War," a CIA officer played by the pitch-perfect Philip Seymour Hoffman cautions the Wilson character (played by Tom Hanks) not to be too sure they have done something glorious. 1/3
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Hey @PrimoWater — a delivery scheduled for Monday that gets “rescheduled” every single day this week and is now magically set for Saturday isn’t a delay, it’s incompetence. If you can’t deliver water reliably, maybe don’t run a delivery business. 🚫💧 Account # 8740131641 #fail
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If you weren't already a #SmitaPatil fangirl, @Priyashanker would have helped you correct course though her presentation on Patil, an iconic figure of the 70s Indian New Wave who was incredibly versatile, working across languages & regions, across art & popular cinemas
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Note to self
You can’t just keep buying books, you have to read them too.
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Chance. Or the lack of it.
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6 rules to start the day: 1. Get up early 2. No phone for the first hour 3. Take a walk 4. Sit with a journal 5. Do the important things first 6. Be happy…you're alive
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#Shrinking and #TheCompanyYouKeep - following two series simultaneously, after a very long time. Both worth the time, especially when sick.
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The podcast #Empire is better than any Indian history book prescribed in schools. Thank you @DalrympleWill.
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R.I.P Paul Sorvino. “Paulie might have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn’t have to move for anybody.” #Goodfellas
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A 2019 study found that some 44 percent of working Americans are employed in low-wage jobs that provide median annual incomes of just $18,000 annum: Jack Welch: The man who broke capitalism
A report card on the Biden Presidency. I write in @DeccanHerald.
#Biden demolished every supposition espoused about his longevity, his reflexes, and his foreign policy. It did seem short-term thinking when he announced the withdrawal of American troops from #Afghanistan, but it was good for America. deccanherald.com/opinion/how…
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Why overturning Roe V Wade may only be a start of what awaits America. My column in @DeccanHerald
By 2050, #Nigeria is forecast to have 400m people, meaning it will overtake the United States as the world’s third-most-populous country. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing at 2.7% a year, which is more than twice as fast as South Asia (1.2%) and Latin America (0.9%).
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That means #Africa is adding the population of France (or Thailand) every two years. By #2050, more than a quarter of world's population will live in this continent.
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