Veena
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Veena
@veenavenugopal.bsky.social
India Newsletter Editor @FT
Author - Independence Day: A People’s History - Aug ‘22. The Mother-in-Law (2014); Would You Like Some Bread With That Book (2012). Views are personal.
Today in Indian weddings
April 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
OMG...popping in here after a long time. And it's ...nice?
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Well....it's not ALL bad news with Trump then
Tech CEOs donated millions to President Trump’s inauguration, hosted black-tie parties and dinners in his honor, and allowed him to announce and take credit for new multibillion-dollar manufacturing projects. But Trump has hardly returned their lavish gestures with favors.
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
No one went with ‘K-Drama’ as the headline? 🫤
December 4, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Strangulating pregnant wife to death not exceptionally violent, Bombay high court 🤷🏽‍♀️
December 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
8-year old girl shot dead by nine men because they had a fight with her brother
December 3, 2024 at 9:59 AM
November 28, 2024 at 2:32 AM
The utter pointlessness of a David Sedaris piece these last few years
November 26, 2024 at 11:56 AM
What happens if an IVF clinic mixes up and implants the wrong embryo? What happens then if you find the right baby? This story is...omg!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...
An I.V.F. Mix-Up, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Reposted by Veena
Meta’s Threads is losing ground to Bluesky in capitalising on the exodus of users from Elon Musk’s X following Donald Trump’s election www.ft.com/content/e1b5...
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
LinkedIn is emerging as a favourite to replace Twitter. Who would have thunk
www.ft.com/content/3051...
Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network
Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X
www.ft.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Veena
The company has now been identified as Microsoft. Don't sign away your rights for a pittance.
So Harper Collins has made a deal with a tech company to use nonfiction books to train an LLM for an unnamed tech company. If you're an author published by them you might want to reach out to your agent: lithub.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…
lithub.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250mn bribery scheme
www.ft.com/content/cab2...
Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250mn bribery scheme
Prosecutors accuse the tycoon and others of lying to investors and offering millions in bribes to land lucrative contracts
www.ft.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Wasted my life buying stocks 😭
November 15, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Ok, Bluesky, let's do this. Tell me who to follow.
November 14, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Reposted by Veena
Here we go
July 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM