@saurabhsattvic @AmbLindnerIndia Are you his lawyer?One of the major public intellectual from Gujarat Prakash N. Shah felicitated in a full house event took place at…
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Retweeted by Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી @GorwayGlobal Bonjour you can read it here: Thread by
@saliltripathi: "Since there are several lovely pieces about…
https://t.co/7zpztX1k3Z Retweeted by Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી @kkjupally Now you're wasting my time. I realise you're idle. Go, watch some television. Or more WhatsApp forwards. Bye.Sometimes it takes an outsider to spell out the truth
https://t.co/u0Y12cfEIF Retweeted by Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી"The refugees I have walked among are bearded pharmacists and girl goatherds. Shopkeepers and intellectuals...supre…
https://t.co/2kK6MiI6Ds Retweeted by Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી @anindita_guha @isinghsatyam @tajmahalfoxtrot Thank you; my best wishes to you.
@kkjupally Oh, I didn't know I was talking to a WhatsApp University graduate! My apologies for wasting your time.
@saliltripathi Need remind
@isinghsatyam a city’s name, we’ve spent a lifetime in doesn’t change cause some ethnic dingbats go on overdrive
Retweeted by Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી @SundeepDougal Yes, and Behram did attribute it to Dom; my mistake. Thanks for picking it up. I think English Butle…
https://t.co/H7WuwG1mtcગુજરાતીમાં મુંબઈ, मराठीमध्ये मुंबई, हिन्दीमे बम्बई, বাংলার বোম্বাই - how lucky Bombay is, to have so many names!!
https://t.co/exmcS0c6eL @isinghsatyam @tajmahalfoxtrot ગુજરાતીમાં મુંબઈ, मराठीमध्ये मुंबई, हिन्दीमे बम्बई, বাংলার বোম্বাই - how lucky Bomba…
https://t.co/EybKuXSoSE @SauravDatta29 @AmbLindnerIndia That's his prerogative; my duty is to ask. Especially given the politics around it.…
https://t.co/2JhHtgBY0bThe chair in the Irani restaurant now lies vacant--perhaps that empty wooden chair near a marble-topped table is th…
https://t.co/cpA4ChdAk5I am sure there are many more journalists like me, who have
benefited from his generosity. For that, I remain grate…
https://t.co/zrGQ6USMYthe looked at it, bringing it close to his eyes, for his eyes were weak even then, and said he would use it. The nex…
https://t.co/6s8IYwb8n7about Bansi Chandragupta, the art director of Satyajit Ray, who had died unexpectedly in Paris. He was at his offic…
https://t.co/X2MDGpMI0PI feel a sense of personal loss--he was one of the first editors to
publish me, in 1981, when I was a college stude…
https://t.co/XScTjda2t6But that wouldn't be Busybee. He added a little, gentle sting after the quote,
and the sentence read: "…from Joycea…
https://t.co/R9l0BqYiAeMost tired reporters would have typed the full-stop and
closed quotes and moved to the next paragraph, hoping that…
https://t.co/kyRhaq8EyGI'm sure Busybee would have found it hard to suppress a chuckle as
Anand said, "And at that point of time, my style…
https://t.co/BVYhOCCeKoConsider his almost off-hand dismissal of fake intellectual
sophistication. I remember reading his interview of Mul…
https://t.co/9WOFdyiv99in 'City Lights' in the Times of India, or later in the two newspapers he helped set up, first Mid-Day and then Aft…
https://t.co/tAA7iTTZGEWhether travelogues, to distant places only people like his friend
Meher Moos would go to, or discovering hidden ge…
https://t.co/LwZgMlvz28He had made a similar point, in the same vein, earlier, when Indira
Gandhi had imposed the Emergency. Recalling tho…
https://t.co/0xdMgdzWDIThere was only one occasion when I remember he wrote an angry
piece--it was after S.N.M. Abdi exposed the Bhagalpur…
https://t.co/PRKghUQGTpHe asked for little and got less. There is political wisdom in that
sentence; it explains the stoicism of India's v…
https://t.co/ZiqIRj5jgNAfter having read detailed economic critiques of India's economic
policies and political class for over two decades…
https://t.co/7cmOgd1IrC, and he articulated it better than anyone else. He understood the way the common man felt, and in one of the fines…
https://t.co/LW4qxFtQ05The cricket season had ended, he said, and once again, as always, it had been Gavaskar's season. There are many mor…
https://t.co/BdaFUlz3mJOther actresses needed scripts and dialogues, but Deepti Naval in Chashme-Buddoor, he wrote once, only needed her e…
https://t.co/7Ag9Vv9PSZhe rains that came in October suddenly, he described once, as a guest who has returned to collect his hat he had fo…
https://t.co/L3lScYKPtathis exceptional knowledge of cricket, his fascination of Hollywood, and his apt phrases to describe a scene half-f…
https://t.co/lcg5JQqGliAnd the city needed to read him daily, like a His eloquent description of sunrise at Uran, or sunset at Haji Ali, h…
https://t.co/rWulOXSc57For Busybee did to Bombay what E.B. White did to Manhattan in his epochal essay, "Here is New York", over 50 years…
https://t.co/dpdBOGdvCithen converted it into square meters, so that the reader would understand the scale of Bombay. They drained the cit…
https://t.co/Puytur4b3pHe was
disappointed with the result, as was Moraes possibly, as well as
Moraes's many fans because, as Busybee memo…
https://t.co/2dmp1jSkZWFor he had squeezed his universe into a ball, and that was Bombay. And how
well he knew the city! When Time-Life Bo…
https://t.co/JnkLGgZWwX(for I used to live in Singapore then), and I said that the fall of Suharto
and the Asian economic crisis had made…
https://t.co/mcXkNJB3aIhe had sat in a corner, supremely unconcerned, nursing
an uncharacteristic glass of nimbu pani, and exchanging joke…
https://t.co/2ko4Mg8qpRI had not seen him in over four years. The last time I had seen him, at one of those glittering functions in Bombay…
https://t.co/lgLBEQwG7Beager to ingratiate themselves for a desperate photo-op with Clinton. And he'd have done it with a touch so gentle…
https://t.co/9l0BC79csdHe'd definitely have been invited to a soiree of that kind;
with film stars, journalists, and the city's celebritie…
https://t.co/CmKMWMYQOZTehelka, April 16, 2001: Empty wooden chair -
I had picked up a copy of Afternoon Despatch and Courier on Friday,…
https://t.co/7MwCDzH09SSince there are several lovely pieces about Busybee today, thanks to
@tajmahalfoxtrot and
@scroll_in, I thought I'd…
https://t.co/HT1NlIWzfq @saurabhsattvic @AmbLindnerIndia Because he is a public servant. Malini Parthasarathy is not, and nor am I interest…
https://t.co/W22jqPUZFULiberals aren't scared. They're wary and know what lies ahead. Cowards are those who write letters of apology to th…
https://t.co/2gzXoyFVMB @wishnewwishall @AmbLindnerIndia This is a good book, worth reading:
https://t.co/uALVjU4PCYWhile dismissing
@thecaravanindia's piece on BJP and science,
@MakrandParanspe had blamed "LeLis" (whatever that me…
https://t.co/ntlPF8LyCP @AmbLindnerIndia PS: Is Nazi ideology part of German mosaic I must study to understand today’s Germany?Cc
@GermanyDiplo https://t.co/EjJnuM8Scj @AmbLindnerIndia And can an Indian go to Germany today and speak of the glories of aryan civilisation and the power…
https://t.co/XGB6oFch8sAll right,
@AmbLindnerIndia, can you tell us what exactly you told Bhagwat about Nazi ideology and why it was evil…
https://t.co/I0naypyhXi @saliltripathi @manaman_chhina All that is passé. If this happened now it would be Modi ji greeting them.
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