Veena
@veenavenugopal
India Newsletter Editor @FT. Author: Independence Day: A People’s History (2022). The Mother-in-Law (2014); Would You Like Some Bread With That Book (2012).
A horrible (and in some cases, cringe) year for Indian IT: Clorox sues Cognizant as troubles mount in India’s tech sector. Read @veenavenugopal's award-winning India newsletter here 👇🏻👇🏻 ft.com/content/1ada20… via @ft
There were (only) three stories in yesterday’s City page in Times of India’s gurgaon edition. Man assaulted with blade Woman found dead Policeman commits suicide
Has 2025 peaked? No
UNITED STATES: US Treasury Department is accepting Paypal and Venmo payments from people wanting to donate to pay down the government's $36.7 trillion debt, according to New York Post report.
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.
1000s of migrant workers are fleeing the city. They are going back to Assam and West Bengal. Police say they are not being detained but just held in “holding centres.” Somehow, “Gurugram city is getting dirty” gets more media attention and public outrage.
Shocking statement about how the journalists the world has been relying on for images and reports about what’s going on in Gaza are slowly dying of starvation @AFP 🧵
A customer ordered non-veg from Blinkit. One Bajrang Dal chapri working at the Blinkit dark store informed his local chapri boss from Bajrang Dal about the order. The boss chapri tracked the delivery guy and checked his bag. He then called the customer and asked why she had…
Check out the latest edition of my @FT newsletter. (1/2) Don't be fooled, the US economy is more fragile than it appears: on.ft.com/44WYODY
British surgeon Nick Maynard: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a game… One day they’re all shot in the head, the next day in the neck, and another day in the testicles… There is a clear and deliberate pattern to the injuries.”
🚨 SHOCKING REPORT: Israeli soldiers in Gaza are reportedly turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a horrifying and systematic “human-hunting game,” according to British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard. He testified: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a…
I have always loved the Be My Eyes app, where blind people call you for help to see. Love it even more these days when the calls I get are young, blind women asking for a "fit check" 😍
Who needs education anyway? Right?
After Meerut, all schools shut in to remain shut till 23 July in Ghaziabad for Kanwar Yatra.
India looks for ‘low-hanging fruit’ in high stakes US trade talks. I’m filling in for @veenavenugopal this week as editor of the @FT’s India Business Briefing. Subscribers, please read 📰 👇 🇮🇳 🙏 on.ft.com/4eLCpOy
No words. And no contrition from any of the parties responsible for taking care of civic infrastructure. Just silly PR photos in chappals with sticks cleaning sewers in the "Millenium City". @MunCorpGurugram @DC_Gurugram @cmohry @PMOIndia @Suhelseth
Five chosen for the New India Foundation’s Rs 18-lakh fellowships to write non-fiction books scroll.in/article/108440… via @scroll_in
People and the media are parsing the motive for Radhika Yadav's murder as though there could be a right reason to kill your own child.