Manu Joseph
@manujosephsan
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Novelist. The Illicit Happiness of Other People. Columnist; previously for the NYT. Creator of the Netflix series, ‘Decoupled’. Right-arm faster-than-Ganguly.
India
Joined February 2015
RT @nntaleb: Actually, much less (more like $25). Pple "in the wine business" tend to overestimate the impact of price on judgment. Tons of…
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Why nobody talks about India’s ‘brain drain’ anymore. Rhyming words have promoted many dubious ideas. Like ‘brain drain.’ Not long ago, everyone was talking about it. So what happened? Read free on my site:
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Every moron is "very practical" until this happens; then he is surprised.
🚨 ��िल्ली-मेरठ एक्सप्रेसवे पर बड़ा हादसा! 🚨 रॉन्ग साइड जा रही कार के कारण कई गाड़ियों में जोरदार टक्कर। 🚗💥🚙
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They are cleaning road dust and showing that they are spending thousands of crores to clean our air. Dust is not anywhere as deadly as smaller pollutants in the air.
"For every 100 spent in the fight against pollution, 67 is going to mitigate dust. Cities are literally being paid to focus on the more visible, but less lethal threat." @PySamarth @anushkantala break down why we are failing to combat air pollution
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@VaasuSrinivasan Really? Maybe, the last few years, the rare times when I followed cricket I muted the audio or listened to Tamil commentators.
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@authoramish The funny thing is that the word 'man' is originally neutral gender -- for any human.
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RT @soutikBBC: 'Absolute chaos at the river bank. People’s belongings, clothes, shoes, blankets and backpacks were strewn all around. Listl…
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Long before Trump, from the time I remember, migration to the United States was a rite of humiliation. Yet, it was exactly what the finest of my generation prepared for. Even the most dignified part of the process lacked grace.
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What protects us from being stabbed in our own homes? Like Saif, we live in secure buildings, with cameras and guards in fancy-dress paramilitary costumes. They do protect us, but the thing that really guards us, is something else. My latest column
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I hope the falling rupee doesn't dissuade Indians from sending their children to the West for expensive humanities courses so that they can later educate us on the evils of inequality.
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This happens because India doesn't do even corruption well. As a nation progresses, there is more money for top politicians if they abolish petty corruption at the bottom. As in illicit money can be made from great infrastructure, not in denying services to ordinary people.
ले खा ! कितनी हराम की कमाई खायेगा, जनता ने दिया उसी भाषा में जवाब अब अधिकारी भी क्या करे उन्हें जॉब पाने के लिए कितनी रिश्वत दी होगी ? अब अपने आका(उच्च अधिकारियों) को दे रहा होगा ? इसका अंदाजा भी लगाना जरूरी है #viralvideo गुजरात का बताया जा रहा है।
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