Mukul Kesavan
@mukulkesavan
‘I am a genocide scholar. I know it when I see it.’ nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…
I am starting to see establishment goons, Davos whores, insecure high-income slaves (IHIS), high ranking members of the International Association of Name Droppers, mildly cognitively impaired social climbers, and slow-thinking media influencers bemoaning the situation in #Gaza.
Someone please ask Manjrekar to stop talking when the bowler starts his run. Do gyan before and after but let us watch the main action in peace. Jio needs to supply an ambient sound only option. @RaunakRK
Pankaj Mishra on America’s embedded intelligentsia. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
Jonathan Sumption, formerly a Supreme Court judge in the United Kingdom, makes a dispassionate assessment of Israel's war on Gaza and concludes that it is likely to be seen in a court of law as genocide. newstatesman.com/world/middle-e…
This is very good on Starmer’s pearl-clutching response to Diane Abbott’s parsing of racism: skin-colour racism vs other sorts: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Amit Shah promised to implement the NRC across India. The NDA government hasn’t been able to make good on that promise. The Election Commission’s SIR in Bihar looks remarkably like an improvised shortcut to the NRC, with the EC unwisely making itself the arbiter of citizenship.
Gill and Pant “get along like a house of cards” according to Shastri. Should we worry?
To sound malicious and patronising without meaning to is a curious talent in a commentator.
By some alchemy, the ECB’s failure to supply balls that keep their shape has been turned into perverse time-wasting by the umpires! And no one’s blaming Stokes for trying to change the ball now England’s bowling.
Post-imperial decline shouldn’t extend to the manufacture of decent cricket balls. Also, how can the umpires not have a substitute ball that’s equivalently worn? The ECB’s like a little failed state.
Reddy scored a run in each innings at Edgbaston, bowled a total of six overs in both, fielded indifferently and made the team for the Lord’s Test. The man’s bullet-proof.
Why is JioHotstar’s pre-show so bad? North Korean level of boosterism. Must we have Kim Il-gill?
‘The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world’ theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
NEW POLL: A Hebrew University poll shows that roughly 82% of Jewish Israelis agree with the genocidal idea that there are “no innocents in Gaza.” mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-o…
Why the judiciary is responsible for the current spate of slum demolitions in Delhi — scroll.in/article/108423…
What a grand win! And for Akash Deep to get ten wickets on this featherbed: remarkable. Arguably the man of the match despite Gill.