Vasundhara Sirnate
@vsirnate.bsky.social
Writer/Journalist with words in The Hindu, The Telegraph, The Indian Express, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Book Review, The Wire, The Economic Times, Mainstream, Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly.
Co-Host: Reality Scribes podcast.
Co-Host: Reality Scribes podcast.
Sumit and I bring this podcast into the world with our best energy and with tons of gratitude. We hope people will understand why we became journalists and also why the very essence of journalism is so much bigger than any individual. ✊🏼
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Sumit and I bring this podcast into the world with our best energy and with tons of gratitude. We hope people will understand why we became journalists and also why the very essence of journalism is so much bigger than any individual. ✊🏼
who started India’s first newspaper and Ritika Prasad whose grasp of early media history and technology was brilliant. You will meet all of them in our first season.
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
who started India’s first newspaper and Ritika Prasad whose grasp of early media history and technology was brilliant. You will meet all of them in our first season.
Along the way we made new friends. We are grateful to Aparajita Das our historian on all things Mughal, Callie Wilkinson the wonderful historian who told us so much about early newspapers and the East India Company’s army, Andrew Otis who wrote the first biography of the forgotten Irishman who
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Along the way we made new friends. We are grateful to Aparajita Das our historian on all things Mughal, Callie Wilkinson the wonderful historian who told us so much about early newspapers and the East India Company’s army, Andrew Otis who wrote the first biography of the forgotten Irishman who
We read books, combed through digital archives in various countries, hounded some brilliant historians to talk to us. We also went on a wild goose chase in Ireland trying to find birth records of the man who started the first newspaper in India, James Augustus Hicky.
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We read books, combed through digital archives in various countries, hounded some brilliant historians to talk to us. We also went on a wild goose chase in Ireland trying to find birth records of the man who started the first newspaper in India, James Augustus Hicky.
So we went back in time - to the late 1700s when this story began.
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So we went back in time - to the late 1700s when this story began.
Sumit Chaturvedi and I went on a long journey based on our personal exchanges over the years where we often talked about the deteriorating Indian journalism landscape. What we realized is that our profession needed to be reminded of its brilliant institutional history.
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Sumit Chaturvedi and I went on a long journey based on our personal exchanges over the years where we often talked about the deteriorating Indian journalism landscape. What we realized is that our profession needed to be reminded of its brilliant institutional history.
Words have consequences and Vance doesn’t seem to understand that.
He won’t be Trump’s successor by a long shot.
He won’t be Trump’s successor by a long shot.
February 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Words have consequences and Vance doesn’t seem to understand that.
He won’t be Trump’s successor by a long shot.
He won’t be Trump’s successor by a long shot.
The point is relevant. Zelensky knows that Russia thinks ceasefires can be violated because there is no feasible way to impose costs. That’s what he was trying to explain. But he was at a disadvantage with language. This was really the worst moment in global diplomacy I’ve seen.
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The point is relevant. Zelensky knows that Russia thinks ceasefires can be violated because there is no feasible way to impose costs. That’s what he was trying to explain. But he was at a disadvantage with language. This was really the worst moment in global diplomacy I’ve seen.
Totally agree! I’m glad you posted the song or I would have missed it! 😊
December 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Totally agree! I’m glad you posted the song or I would have missed it! 😊
Oh wow! Congratulations 🎉❤️✊🏼
December 7, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Oh wow! Congratulations 🎉❤️✊🏼
Glad to see Twice shining! MTS has certainly opened herself up to a whole new world and seems to be happy doing collabs with Asian artists. I have a bias, but I do like RM, MTS’ “Neva Play”, specifically RM’s verse. I wonder what you think about that one. ❤️
December 7, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Glad to see Twice shining! MTS has certainly opened herself up to a whole new world and seems to be happy doing collabs with Asian artists. I have a bias, but I do like RM, MTS’ “Neva Play”, specifically RM’s verse. I wonder what you think about that one. ❤️