Rohit Chopra

Folks I am at @indiaexplained.bsky.social and will be posting there. Enough of Twitter/x

is it bombs

Listening to Leonard Cohen's You Want it Darker. An absolute masterpiece, released when he was 82. A perfect example of what Edward Said calls Late Style. (Can't seem to post the YouTube link here though)

Kissinger at 100: how his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising

So Tina Turner passes away but this ghoul continues to breathe? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/25/henry-kissinger-100-strategic-genius-or-damaging-diplomacy-held-back-africa?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I never want to hear a conservative talk about free speech ever again

I'm addicted to the Pacific coast. At full tide with spring flowers in bloom today

Or maybe a really good spy! I think there is a Netflix movie here

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