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Rosie Roti
10 months
I heard there was a kerfuffle about Humans of New York recently. This week is the ten-year anniversary of a post I've never forgotten.
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Rosie Roti
2 months
Didn't think Rashmika would be in anything sillier than Animal, but dropping this in a week when the city is still fishing bodies out of the collapse of an extremely illegal hoarding is really impressive
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3 months
Just before Mumbai elections and 13 seats in Maharashtra, a direct ‘ad’ by a celebrity on development.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
It's been a month since my father died. Long transformative illness can make it difficult to remember and enjoy your past with someone you love. I'm not even ready for that, bc I'm still dwelling in the gratitude of every last minute I got to have. But here's an archival photo.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I was just at the signal next to my house waiting to cross when I heard a strange voice say, “Come on, hurry,” when the light turned green. It was a small woman, power-walking to church. “Scary it is to cross these days, na,” she said. “Reckless only,” I said. “Do you know me?”
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Whether you view this as scripted or unscripted comedy, it's exquisite. Hat-tip @ShoaibDaniyal .
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Rosie Roti
10 months
A reminder of what the police were doing to Prabir Purkayastha on September 25, 1975. (From Gyan Prakash's "Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democrac's Turning Point")
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Arvind Gunasekar
10 months
Delhi Police arrests NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakravarty in alleged UAPA case
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Rosie Roti
1 year
So this is my advance contribution to Matr-Pitr Pujan Diwas, I guess, and my Valentine. I was very lucky in the love I received and I wanted to tell everyone who’s had the same luck that you won’t be annihilated when the time comes.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Mourning isn’t sad all the time. I know the idea that grief is a form of love has filtered all the way down to comic-book TV so I won't go into any of that. It’s just a very full feeling. It's as vivid and vivifying as any of the other things that make us feel alive.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Finished The Romantics over lunch break -- such a marvellously watchable work for a lot of audiences whose first-ever documentary it is likely to be. I just wish there had been less boring nepo talk and more about the actual song and dance.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I saw Zakir’s “Tathasthu” a few days ago and he had a beautiful expression of the complicatedness of this. Jis ghar mein koi guzar jaata hai, uss ghar mein har tyohar ki shuruaat maatam se hoti hain.
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Rosie Roti
4 months
(While we're at it I want to shun, mock and abhor the creeping financialisation of ordinary language. I don't want to know what you are 'solving for' if it isn't a maths problem.)
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Rosie Roti
3 months
Incredible fight to start in a country where most languages have entirely different approaches to gender and formality in pronouns, at a time when ML translation still doesn't fully get the difference between 'him' and 'her'
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Bhavish Aggarwal
3 months
Hoping that this “pronoun illness” doesn’t reach India. Many “big city schools” in India are now teaching it to kids. Also see many CVs with pronouns these days. Need to know where to draw the line in following the west blindly!
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Rosie Roti
2 months
Really hoping I and other moviegoers get to watch Payal Kapadia's film in a theatre soon. Until it's out, so delighted to see her joyous confidence, and her gorgeous actors celebrating in clothes that aren't upcycled bridal wear.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Only about another 24 hours to see a bunch of Iranian films by women and non-binary filmmakers for free:
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Rosie Roti
2 months
Would've been an especially bitter irony if Mumbai's voters, who consistently chose peace and reason in the wake of November 2008, had sent former prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, inventor of the "biryani for Kasab" lie, to Parliament. Glad it's @VarshaEGaikwad from North-Central!
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I miss her, but not in a way that makes me sad all the time. I’m really relieved she’s not sick any more. I’m not fussed that she isn’t part of the important events of the last five years because––she kind of has been, you know?
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Rosie Roti
1 year
It was a lament as he said it. I don't lament it. I’ve stopped celebrating some things (my birthday, mango season) but every celebration that does come around feels expanded in some way. The memory of love doesn’t take away from a happy moment. It makes it more dwellable-in.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
He opened a WHAT on a flight?????!
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Rosie Roti
4 months
A searing story from @jyotipunwani , about a death-dealing city.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I didn’t say thank you to Auntie Marjorie and Auntie Cyrilla’s sister for making me very happy for a moment today, to be able to bring my mother alive for her in our two minutes of talk.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Some of the social precarity around ageing into singledom is just because the few models for living alone in our society are so invisible, both to younger single people and to the oldies who've marginalised people who didn't make choices identical to theirs.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I know no one is on Twitter for recommendations but I am greatly enjoying Sarah Thankam Mathews's "All This Could Be Different." Maybe it was good not to read American novels for a while.
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Rosie Roti
8 months
Saurabh has covered this untiringly, since long before it became primetime adventure. Thank you -- beyond relieved that you can sign off with a story of rescue.
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Saurabh Sharma (TRAVEL. REPORT. REPEAT)
8 months
Dateline: Silkyara Dispatch Day 17. The rescue mission concludes. Thank you to my editor @YPRajesh @krishnadas56
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Rosie Roti
1 year
When someone has passed on from a household, every festivity in the house begins with mourning.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I usually never want to discuss this on a social media platform (the most untrustworthy use of the words “social,” “media” or “platform”). But I was among the earliest of my friends to lose my mother, so I’ve often wanted to say this to others who’re now bracing for the impact.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
I saw the Knives Out films over the weekend and nothing in them comes close to the experience of being online for a man getting himself sent to prison because of the pizza he eats when trying to one-up a scornful teenager.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Every day of existence ages me in a new and unfamiliar way but today I have forged a link to my foremothers: I finally get the point of Vicks VapoRub.
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Rosie Roti
6 months
Sarfaraz India debut and Supreme Court decision makes it feel like a 2010 news day
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Rosie Roti
1 year
It’s not an anniversary or anything. There’s no occasion for these tweets. I literally just ran into this auntie before it turned dark. We didn't exchange names. I hope I didn’t offend her by implying that she looked as old as my mother, who was herself of no age to die in 2017.
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Rosie Roti
4 months
Fighting not to spend all day scrolling on the wonderful new , with its amazing visualisations and explanatory writing. So many congratulations to founder @Rukmini and her team!
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Rosie Roti
2 years
We're ready w/ this year's first @FiftyTwoDotIn story and I'm impatient for you to read it BUT we're going to take one more day and publish on Sunday morning this week.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
No first-hand information about pets or their feelings, but I've always liked this Karel Capek poem, translated by Dora Round. (Source: )
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I didn't think of myself as a Shah Rukh fan until Raees. Dissimilarly but in parallel I did not think of myself as a John Abraham fan until Pathaan.
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Rosie Roti
6 months
I insist you come to Kala Ghoda today to hear the wonderful @shreedaisy talk about her work and many other fun things.
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Rosie Roti
10 months
A new collection of Perumal Murugan's piercing short stories is out from @juggernautbooks , beautifully translated by @kavithamurali . I got a flower-like compliment *and* the pleasure of reading some of Kavitha's late drafts. I hope you'll read, buy and share the finished work!
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Thinking of converting this to a life-hacks account. Every day a ten-tweet thread in which I assume you know nothing and only want to hear reassuring non-actionable nonsense. I would be great at this.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Completely delightful Sharda Ugra story for the very cool new food pub enthucutlet, on what cricketers ate in the 1990s:
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Rosie Roti
1 year
“Ya,” she said. “You’re Shobha’s daughter only.” “Ya,” I said. “You recognised me from my face only?” She said ya. “Did you go to school with her?” I asked.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
“No, no, my sisters went,” she said. “Tell her you met Marjorie and Cyrilla’s younger sister.” “I’m so sorry,” I said. “She died five years ago.” “Oh god,” she said. “Oh no.” “Ya,” I said. “Actually we live here only."
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Rosie Roti
1 year
These threats seem incredibly real and in an atmosphere of any accountability at all, should be taken seriously by authorities.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I pointed to the colony up ahead. I went into the little stand-up routine that I use to summarise the last few years for anyone who needs a catch-up: we moved away, I moved back, I moved her in with me, she spent her last days in the neighbourhood where she grew up.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
But a friend's bracing for potentially serious news about her mom as we speak. & while I want to tell her all this I don’t want it to seem like advance notice. I’ve carped so much about thread twt that maybe it’s only right for me to be the thread twt I want to see in the world.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
For You pages on Indian Twitter will filter outbound links, tweets containing political watchwords and small anonymized accounts, leading us to enter an endless cycle of boring tweets about biryani and Bombay-Delhi.
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Rosie Roti
5 months
Bombay folks: do you have a spare laptop to give to a smart young woman who's just finished her 12th boards and wants to get started on working and studying before she goes to college? I'll pay for pick-up within the city and any maintenance.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Hello! Our first story of the year is by @neerjadeodhar , who went on the trail of a lost movie epic from 1951, made by the men of the Chicago Radio business––with some help from their grandson, Vikramaditya Motwane.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Replies contained to people too young to remember the absolute chokehold over small girls that every single Madhuri Dixit outfit in Hum Aapke Hain Koun had c. 1994.
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2 years
q: what is an outfit worn by an actress in a bollywood film that instantly comes to your mind when you think of an iconic, era-defining piece of costume - something that influenced pop culture & wardrobes of women irl (this is for an article will be thankful if u can answer)
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Rosie Roti
2 years
What are your resolutions for the new year? I'm going to write more letters (new) and start lifting weights (carried over for four years from resolution lists).
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Exciting news from Penguin India's new releases email for this quarter: @meenakandasamy 's translation of Tiruvalluvar out soon!
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Annual Bombay cold weather update: I have turned off the fan.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Something I enjoyed reading over the weekend: the news (+ analysis) about a very tradish book business in the US seeing a happy turnaround.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
What a loss. I don't believe there's a good survival record for movies from the 1920s anywhere around the world––a massive percentage have vanished even from US history, I've read. Cinema's longevity (in our minds as well as in the records) is such a recent creation.
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Dr.(Hon) Ramachandran Srinivasan
1 year
India's first talkie #AlamAra released exactly 92 years ago. The film's print is now destroyed. Shyam Benegal is the only lviing filmmaker who has seen the film. #Bollywoodflashback
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Still thinking about the most terrible book review I've read all year.
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Rosie Roti
10 months
Seeing some fixation on India following tournament host rules at the World Cup. Misdirection. Our cricket administration has made every effort to create the India-Pak match-up, host it not in Mohali or Chennai but in Ahmedabad, and crank sentiment around it to maximum intensity.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
She laughed and said “Okay, then.” I said, “Okay, bye.”
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Mood in the @FiftyTwoDotIn team Discord at the beginning of the last week of S2, courtesy Amal.
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Rosie Roti
2 months
A reminder, among other things, that in Bombay it's spelled "you'll."
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Aaditya Thackeray
2 months
A humble suggestion to the possible allies of the bjp in the newly remembered NDA: Get the post of the Speaker. Having experienced the tactics of the bjp, the minute they form government with you, they will break the promises and try to break your parties too. You’ll have
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Rosie Roti
10 months
One thing about spending a couple of years editing a publication is that you become very very annoying as an editor.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
I should be writing all this in a letter to @_Zeets right now.
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Rosie Roti
10 months
This is not about rule-following. This is about Indian cricket, run by the son of India's home minister, trying to maximise the profits from a historically fraught tie. Whether the establishment profits from the sideline in violent jingoism running in parallel, who can tell?
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Happy Valentine's Day. Reporter @prachip79 turns essayist for today's new story, which is about why platonic love is so easy––and so damn hard––in India.
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Rosie Roti
8 months
I read more than the average because my work involves knowing what is contained in certain books, but if I didn't have to my dream would be to read and form rich memories of a maximum of four books a year.
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Alex & Books 📚
8 months
Economist and bestselling author @tylercowen reads 100+ books a year. Here are 18 tips from him on how to read fast, read well, and read widely: 1) Cowen’s first rule of reading is as follows: You need not finish. He takes up books with great hope and no mercy, and when he is
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Rosie Roti
6 months
"Unlike my previous research experience with interviewing women, everyone was very eager to meet repeatedly and chat. But none seemed to believe that I genuinely wanted to recruit them as respondents for my research." @BShrayana 's barnstormer:
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Rosie Roti
8 months
Spoken like someone who's never had to use a hospital elevator.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Also a reminder that some of my favourite Hindi movies from the aughts were YRF "flops": Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Aaja Nachle, Rocket Singh.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Subtle mid-century style taxi top: not as spectacular as some of @GreaterBombay 's most notable but pretty stylish, I thought. (Go see Rachel's wonderful taxi top photos if you haven't in a while.)
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Zooming at @SjcNous in just under 40 minutes, please join off if you're free.
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Rosie Roti
4 months
Eid mubarak! We'll try not to keep you too long from your evening plans. Do join us if you're in Bombay. Please tag @AsiaSocietyIC if you'd like to register.
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Asia Society India Centre
4 months
Discover how the intersection of technology and the humanities shapes our world with Rishi Jaitly ( @jaitly ), Senior Advisor at @OpenAI , and Dr. Robert Newman, President of the National Humanities Center, in a conversation moderated by @supriyan .
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Rosie Roti
2 years
@kjavadizadeh and @brianglavey got me thinking about this poem, which I hadn't thought about in some time, again, and the defiantly sublime lines about drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles (?!). So serious.
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Kamran Javadizadeh
2 years
"It doesn’t detract from your seriousness if you’re thinking about your boyfriend while you’re looking at a painting." You have to get pretty near the end of my conversation with @BrianGlavey for this gem from him, but well worth it imho.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
In another life I would really have liked just to tweet 50,000 times about #ARRHindiBracket with you
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Rosie Roti
1 year
–– and a story that @ssantoshini pursued for years, about how residential school system in Odisha is shaping the lives of young Adivasis. Thank you to Sarita and @afidelf for choosing to work with us. Flowers to @amalshiyas @medhavenkat @vikramshah1991 @elzac_29 and @GauravVaz .
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ACJ
1 year
Second: Sarita Santoshini @ssantoshini | @FiftyTwoDotIn Residential schools for indigenous people have a long and dark history around the world. How they have changed the lives of young Adivasi people in Odisha’s mining-interest regions.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
These things feel connected.
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Rosie Roti
9 months
Sick society.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
Really just the only magazine left in the English speaking world.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
What a day of outrageous judgements and restrictions even by hysterical 24x7 news standards.
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Rosie Roti
1 year
(And genuinely sorry to everyone I've been late or remiss in writing to -- I'm not out of commission, just temporarily out of energy)
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Glad I malingered over reading Katherine Rundell's beloved series of animal essays () so that my unprepared heart could be battered by her love letter to John Donne, "Super-Infinite." The purest pleasure to read, and I will read everything else she writes.
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Rosie Roti
8 months
You should listen to this because it explains a watershed in modern Indian history and it wasn't written by lawyers. Kudos to @rumbotupalli and @BhavyaDore for making FOTC S2, with our own @rkarnad back on the mic.
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Anil Divan Foundation
8 months
🎙️PODCAST OUT NOW! Friend of the Court is back with a new season! This #ConstitutionDay , revisit the #basicstructure case. Tune in 🎧 to the first 2 episodes now as we go back to the early years of independence to unpack the events that led to the case. 🔗
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Rosie Roti
2 years
So happy for @vinayaravind and his fantastic story. Congratulations and thank you for working with us at @FiftyTwoDotIn !
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Mumbai Press Club
2 years
Congratulations 𝗩𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗱 on winning the #RedInkAwards2022 for the category 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 (𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁). @vinayaravind @FiftyTwoDotIn Story:
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Closing with a crash. The wonderful @sowmiyashok brings @FiftyTwoDotIn 's second season home with a haunting story about the death of Subhas Chandra Bose, that is really about the lives we have lived in India.
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Rosie Roti
10 months
Incredible that there are Pakistanis eating biryani within Indian borders right now and one of them isn't @karachikhatmal .
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Making it to a textbook is a special feeling but edtech decks will do just fine*. Several of our stories rly were commissioned to bring aspects of Indian life + history alive for younger readers. Let us know if you spot @FiftyTwoDotIn in your study material! * conditions apply
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Never gave the competitives much to my parent’s’ disappointment but hey made it to the study material with my @FiftyTwoDotIn story on the Naga accord
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Rosie Roti
7 months
In November 2021 I went to a concert for the first time since the fearful isolation of pandemic-era lockdowns, to listen to Rashid Khan, who set everyone in his audience a little more free. Go home safely ustad sahib.
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SEA TikTok your swag is too elite
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duolingo lacks the funds for her ambassadorship
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Rosie Roti
2 months
Crone twitter (baby-loving auntie sub-division) passing through to let everyone in their 20s know that this simply isn't true.
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Rosie Roti
2 years
What is the meaning of "skin in the game"?
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Incredible amounts of activity on my Instagram a reminder that I haven't gotten out of my pajamas in three years
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Rosie Roti
1 year
Making a list of things I will try to do during the upcoming @FiftyTwoDotIn hiatus. Should I watch Happy Family or Succession?
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