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Rohini Mohan

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Independent journalist, India. Winner of Chameli Devi Award, 2019. Author, The Seasons of Trouble (on postwar Sri Lanka). India Correspondent, The Straits Times.

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Billionaire Gautam Adani Indicted in US Over Bribery Charges US prosecutors charged Gautam Adani, one of the worldโ€™s richest people, with participating in a scheme that involved promising to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to...

US prosecutors charged Gautam Adani with participating in a scheme that involved promising to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to secure solar energy contracts.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gautam Adani is very close to Narendra Modi.

20.11.2024 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Relive the epic of The Ramayana Trail
YouTube video by SriLankan Airlines Relive the epic of The Ramayana Trail

The op-ed shows what SriLanka thinks of India's imperialist merging of mythological Lanka/Ravana with reality, ignoring local stories. Watch the ad below.
youtu.be/2SUXqcjFIgI?...

20.11.2024 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Ramayanizingโ€™ Sri Lanka by Courtesy of SriLankan Airlines (The author is on X as @sasmester) SriLankan Airlinesโ€™ five-minute commercial promoting the so-called โ€˜Ramayana Trailโ€™ in Sri Lanka is being accepted very naively as an enticing and heartwarming adver...

"Why would SriLankan Airlines be so north Indian & Brahminical, & willingly succumb to the dominant & exclusivist version of Ramayanaย promoted by the Indian state... in exclusion of all other narratives in India itself?" this oped asks about a recent ad.
island.lk/ramayanizing...

20.11.2024 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who do you think this looks like? To me it's Sanam Marwi, the Pakistani singer. But a friend with funnier eyes said it looks like Nita Ambani!

16.11.2024 05:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If only we had a real photo of Benazir Bhutto in the world...

P.s. who is this??!

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