Gavin Jackson
@gavinjackson.bsky.social
Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
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Beautifully written piece from my colleague Leo Mirani who visited the world's second greatest movie-making seaside city (LA) to write about how a Jain temple ended up in tinseltown and its journey from profane to sacred. www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
The long, strange journey of a temple from profane to sacred
How an object made to sell tea, then used to promote gambling, finally became holy
www.economist.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Beautifully written piece from my colleague Leo Mirani who visited the world's second greatest movie-making seaside city (LA) to write about how a Jain temple ended up in tinseltown and its journey from profane to sacred. www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
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From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
The hidden joys of a cuisine shaped by cruelty
economist.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
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economist.com/christmas-sp...
Watch who you’re calling childless
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Watch who you’re calling childless
Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago
economist.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Watch who you’re calling childless
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economist.com/finance-and-...
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Does this to adults too
It turns out vehicular traffic does something else, too, more subtle but equally pernicious: It changes the way children see and experience the world by diminishing their connection to community and neighbors.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going
A new study suggests vehicular travel affects children's ability to navigate their neighborhood and connect to their community.
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Does this to adults too
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Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports reut.rs/4qdW4v9
Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports
Apple is in early discussions with Indian chipmakers to assemble and package components for the iPhone, the Economic Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports reut.rs/4qdW4v9
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RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra tells the @financialtimes.com that he expects India's interest rates to remain low for a “long period”.
He also admitted that the blistering 8.2% GDP figure “was surprising” and the central bank had to “improve” its forecasting
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He also admitted that the blistering 8.2% GDP figure “was surprising” and the central bank had to “improve” its forecasting
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India’s central bank governor signals rates to stay low for ‘long period’
Sanjay Malhotra celebrates ‘Goldilocks’ growth that could be boosted further by trade deals with US and EU
ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra tells the @financialtimes.com that he expects India's interest rates to remain low for a “long period”.
He also admitted that the blistering 8.2% GDP figure “was surprising” and the central bank had to “improve” its forecasting
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He also admitted that the blistering 8.2% GDP figure “was surprising” and the central bank had to “improve” its forecasting
ft.com/content/55cd...
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Indian rupee's relentless slide fuels talk of RBI pushback, bankers say reut.rs/48QBw4M
Indian rupee's relentless slide fuels talk of RBI pushback, bankers say
The Indian rupee's near one-way slide over the past month, with the currency repeatedly touching all-time lows regardless of broader Asian market cues, is fuelling talk among bankers of heavier pushback from the central bank.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Indian rupee's relentless slide fuels talk of RBI pushback, bankers say reut.rs/48QBw4M
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A great case study in how hard it is to mitigate your way to consent. People who have decided to "hate" a project and all those who work on it will find a reason to hate the mitigations too.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A great case study in how hard it is to mitigate your way to consent. People who have decided to "hate" a project and all those who work on it will find a reason to hate the mitigations too.
Spotted in a Mumbai restaurant: “London corner shop style samosas” and “Birmingham Balti”.
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Spotted in a Mumbai restaurant: “London corner shop style samosas” and “Birmingham Balti”.
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The point on decumulating property is particularly important imo
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The point on decumulating property is particularly important imo
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Microsoft to invest $17.5 billion in India, CEO Nadella says reut.rs/48DYSKH
Microsoft to invest $17.5 billion in India, CEO Nadella says
Microsoft will invest $17.5 billion in India, its chief executive Satya Nadella said on social media platform X on Tuesday, as global behemoths race to build infrastructure in one the world's fastest growing digital markets.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Microsoft to invest $17.5 billion in India, CEO Nadella says reut.rs/48DYSKH
Dance like nobody is watching; love like you’ve never been hurt; sing like no one is listening, and praise your country like an American has just criticised it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dance like nobody is watching; love like you’ve never been hurt; sing like no one is listening, and praise your country like an American has just criticised it.
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Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt
Europe... stands on the brink of civilisational erasure
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News: Every 2026 World Cup match will feature two "hydration breaks," no matter the weather.
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
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Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
2026 World Cup to feature three-minute hydration breaks in every half throughout tournament
Every game will pause for three minutes in the middle of each half, which will essentially split the match into quarters.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Europe... stands on the brink of civilisational erasure
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American hydration obsession
News: Every 2026 World Cup match will feature two "hydration breaks," no matter the weather.
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
2026 World Cup to feature three-minute hydration breaks in every half throughout tournament
Every game will pause for three minutes in the middle of each half, which will essentially split the match into quarters.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
American hydration obsession
Have to adjust this for the default negative bias of British people.
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Have to adjust this for the default negative bias of British people.
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if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected"
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December 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected"
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Nothing Starmer does in government will be as consequential - for Labour and the country - as voting against a high alignment + customs union agreement three times after a long campaign to sabotage it. For reasons that were pretty incoherent.
Missed this over the weekend but notable how the analysis is focused on internal Labour discussion and not on whether the outcome of that would actually be realistic - which it isn't... and so we go on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Nothing Starmer does in government will be as consequential - for Labour and the country - as voting against a high alignment + customs union agreement three times after a long campaign to sabotage it. For reasons that were pretty incoherent.
On the feasibility of the customs union, isn't it just "if the UK and EU are both committed to making this happen then a way can be found to make it happen; if they are not then then it won't happen".
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
On the feasibility of the customs union, isn't it just "if the UK and EU are both committed to making this happen then a way can be found to make it happen; if they are not then then it won't happen".
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"Indian firms look better than peers partly because the cost of pollution is not reckoned correctly [..] This outperformance is a trap. When selling into CBAM countries, this pollution arbitrage vanishes. Failures of electricity policy now harm exporters."
www.business-standard.com/opinion/colu...
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www.business-standard.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
"Indian firms look better than peers partly because the cost of pollution is not reckoned correctly [..] This outperformance is a trap. When selling into CBAM countries, this pollution arbitrage vanishes. Failures of electricity policy now harm exporters."
www.business-standard.com/opinion/colu...
www.business-standard.com/opinion/colu...
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India has no immediate plans to add coal power capacity beyond 2035, official says reut.rs/4rJj2vI
India has no immediate plans to add coal power capacity beyond 2035, official says
India does not have any immediate plans to add coal power generation capacity beyond 2035, a top power ministry official said on Sunday.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
India has no immediate plans to add coal power capacity beyond 2035, official says reut.rs/4rJj2vI
Maga’s strange rage against Europe giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Maga’s strange rage against Europe
The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it
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December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Maga’s strange rage against Europe giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
If only there had been some sort of backstop to keep Britain in the EU customs union that Labour could have supported. ig.ft.com/brexit-exit-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If only there had been some sort of backstop to keep Britain in the EU customs union that Labour could have supported. ig.ft.com/brexit-exit-...
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Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
Rewilding charity helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets - www.reuters.com/world/india/...
India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets
The Reserve Bank of India lowered its key interest rate on Friday and announced measures to infuse up to $16 billion into the banking system this month in the form of debt purchases and a foreign exch...
www.reuters.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets - www.reuters.com/world/india/...