Mumbai Paused

I write my columns sitting in a New Haven café, eating waffles and lattés served by comely young immmigrant waitresses. Here’s how women ruined my workplace.

by Ross Douthat

Luckily - top Tamil newspapers in Mumbai may have a larger circulation they have in some small towns in TN. :)

Unwrapped @blaft.bsky.social

Thank you!

Proteins and the City Volume 5 | Issue 5 [September 2025] - On Eating I don’t remember eating the way some of us look at the plates these days. We calculate whether we’re consuming enough calories, fibre, healthy fats, or protein. A wave of protein consciousness has swe...

A photo essay by the amazing @mumbaipaused.bsky.social
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Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television

Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television

Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television with a remote control sitting on top of it

Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television sitting at a slight angle on top of a lectern

Drawings by me of televisions from movies

E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Videodrome (1983)

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#CarCultureinIndia Kshatriya कुलावतंस
behind the wheels: OBC कुलावतंस
on Mumbai streets.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done."

Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

#marathaprotest Jarange fans camping at CIDCO exhibition centre in Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Baigaan!

Jarange fans

Day 2:
The Maratha / Jarange protest. Protestors who stayed overnight at vashi Cidco exhibtion centre and APMC heading for Azad Maidan. Another interesting day for Sobo

Latest news from Modi’s pet cheetah project

Mumbai: Paused on August 29th.
Maratha / Jarange protestors from interior MH going to Azad Maidan to protest via Navi Mumbai.

This is why I subscribe to the FT and am happy to see it on my doorstep every morning. Great story, the work of reporters in three different cities. So prefer this to recycled press releases and clickbait written by someone in the office - or AI, I sense increasingly…

Over the last 15 years, the Shri Shakti Mariamma temple has become a place where women seek refuge. However it now faces complaints from a neighbor who objects to the loud drums during worship services.

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Prajwal Bhat writes

An excerpt from my new novel, Alice Sees Ghosts in @scroll.in.web.brid.gy ! scroll.in/article/1085...

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