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11 months

The print version of the Indian Express review by ⁦ @Joshi_Uncle ⁩: ‘one of the most significant works of non-academic history in recent memory’. 🤞

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

5 months

Some days I think only psychoanalysts can make sense of New India, this hilarious mix of pride and deep, unresolved inferiority complex, not journalists (or historians or political scientists).

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5 months

#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: In a unique cricket tournament (Maharishi Maitri Match Tournament) organized by Sanskriti Bachao Manch in Bhopal, the players can be seen playing in 'dhoti' and 'kurta' while commentary is being done in the Sanskrit language. A total of 12 teams are

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Manoj Mitta is too cool to be here so I am happy to do the honours. Out this summer, please buy:

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@chacchachoudhry

1 year

“Dosti bani rahe!”

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

2 years

Mary Roy passed away this morning, peacefully, at her Kottayam home. Reminded of this funny, wise profile of her in Pankaj Mishra's Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (that I read while still in college).

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Some friends who could not turn up for the launch on June 21st at IIC asked for a recording. Wonderfully moderated by Manisha Pande, Shashi Tharoor and Swapan Dasgupta and I discussed ABV and the trajectory of the Hindu Right. The video is up now:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

6 months

Three days ago Manoj Mitta was joking that he had never won an award in his entire life. Someone must have been listening because, well, he just WON the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival 2023 Book Prize for Caste Pride. 👏🏼🥳

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Pleasantly surprised to read this thoughtful review in India Today magazine. Especially impressed by how crisply @GillesVerniers summarises the book as well as his arguments in such a short space. Easily my favourite review so far!

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Delighted to be back here to announce the publication of the first volume of my debut. Available at bookstores 10th May onwards. Please consider pre-ordering VAJPAYEE: THE ASCENT OF THE HINDU RIGHT, 1924-77 on the link below:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 months

Waah! Since cricket is also a British sport, why not ban it and instead motivate our youngsters to take up gilli-danda. Let’s declare it our Rashtriya Khel, make you the national team coach…

Virender Sehwag

@virendersehwag

9 months

I have always believed a name should be one which instills pride in us. We are Bhartiyas ,India is a name given by the British & it has been long overdue to get our original name ‘Bharat’ back officially. I urge the @BCCI @JayShah to ensure that this World Cup our players have

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Abhishek Choudhary

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1 year

"Moral dilemma is rather common, banal even, and biographers train themselves to tackle it. My bigger challenge was often separating [Vajpayee's] genuine dilemmas from his cynical doublespeak" Happy to answer @neelam_raaj 's questions for the Sunday ToI:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

10 months

भाईसाब ने मूँछ पर इतना वर्कआउट किया, रीढ़ कब पिघला पता ही नहीं चला!

Shiv Aroor

@ShivAroor

10 months

Nearly ran out of breath listing all things named after Nehru in India on my show today. Personally frown on renaming politics, but see if you can stay till the end 😓

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Friends and colleagues have often asked when the book is going to be released. Well, it's up for preorder now. Hope you find it worth your money and time! 🧿🤞🏽

Pan Macmillan India

@PanMacIndia

1 year

We are thrilled to open pre-orders for the highly anticipated groundbreaking biography of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee: VAJPAYEE: THE ASCENT OF THE HINDU RIGHT, 1924–1977 by Abhishek Choudhary ( @chacchachoudhry ). Out 10 May. Book your copy:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Infinitely relieved to announce that the book I have been working on forever has, at long last, decided to publish itself. 🤞🏽🌻 Details:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

For rather selfish reasons many of us, researchers who have spent years working out of Teen Murti, are afraid of worse things. There are rumours that the library and archives might be moved to some place in Dwarka. Happy to be proved wrong! @divs13 story:

Nehru’s name dropped, it’s Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society

The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) will now be called Prime Ministers Museum and Society.

indianexpress.com

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

8 months

🤞🏽

Pan Macmillan India

@PanMacIndia

8 months

VAJPAYEE by @chacchachoudhry

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

If you are in Delhi/NCR on Wednesday evening, please come!

Shashi Tharoor

@ShashiTharoor

1 year

This promises to be an interesting discussion! Wednesday 21st, @swapan55 @manishapande & me in discussion with Abhishek Choudhary, whose new book on #Vajpayee has generated amazing levels of interest.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

4 months

Heard him play this achingly beautiful Lata song—Mera Dil Ye Pukaare Aaja (Naagin, 1954)—as I was entering the Speakers’ Lounge on my first day at the JLF. Yesterday I stopped by and requested that he play it again:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Happy for you! But it must be categorically stated that a Rajya Sabha seat becoming the final result of all journalistic and academic ambitions has grievously harmed these professions.

Saket Gokhale MP

@SaketGokhale

11 months

Officially elected as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, an hour ago. I’m immensely grateful to my leaders @MamataOfficial & @abhishekaitc for this opportunity & their guidance. I’m proud to be representing the great state of West Bengal & immensely indebted to the people of

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

7 months

Can't bear the burden of your wet dreams, Mr. Rao. I can only say I write what I write backed by a lot of evidence.

M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired)

@MNageswarRaoIPS

7 months

If the #PseudoHindutva ideologue Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Hindu Right, then I am President of United States of America.😃 @chacchachoudhry

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Though set in small-town Punjab, the heart of #KohrraonNetflix is a universal neurosis: Patriarchy is so firmly rooted that men, despite their best intentions, act in ways that diminish, kill, people they love the most. But it ends on a redeeming note. Nearly as good as the hype!

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Full house at the fiery and tall Manoj Mitta's book launch!

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

I'm occasionally chided for the book being expensive, especially in stores. (Disagree, except when it's coming from students, but that discussion is for another time.) It's selling at a massive—51%—discount today. Ab koi bahaana nahi bacha, khareed hi lo:

VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977 (Winner of the 2023 Tata Literature Live! First...

VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977 (Winner of the 2023 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award)

www.amazon.in

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Some sharp, provocative (and reassuring) arguments from Harish Khare here!

India Can Have its First Dalit Prime Minister in 2024

After running a transactional regime for 10 years, Modi is no longer the messiah of the ‘common man.’ His credentials as a champion of the poor were based on being pitted against an ‘entitled’ Rahul...

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Scouting for kebabs together in pre-pandemic Delhi, Manoj Mitta sometimes spoke of his deep love for Hyderabad. For the first time he is going to be speaking on his new book in his home town at two events—on the 7th July and the 9th July. Photos have more details:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Last week @NilanjanUdwin and I had an animated discussion on Vajpayee 1924-77 for his Hindi show "इतिहास के पन्ने"! Do watch:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

It was so kind of you to agree to read the book and launch it at short notice. Many thanks! 🙏

Shashi Tharoor

@ShashiTharoor

1 year

And here I am with the author, who has done a meticulous and thoroughly readable job:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

'I think there is no such thing as a dull subject, mostly a bad writer or a lack of archival material.' A brief interview with @ghazalawahab for the Force magazine's July issue. Just in case this interests someone:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Thinking of the great Patrick French, who would have turned 57 today.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

"But Atal most certainly did not consider Gandhi’s death a serious loss to mankind." | Typically brave of the Wire to run this important extract! Thank you, @seemay !

Seema Chishti

@seemay

1 year

What Was Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Immediate Response to the News of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination? Read an excerpt from the path-breaking biography, 'Vajpayee' by Abhishek Chaudhary 👇

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

6 months

Deadline aur archives ki kashmakash.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

4 months

The great Shubhra Gupta brings her book ‘Irrfan’ to Jaipur, the late screen legend’s hometown. Around a thousand people have braved the rain to attend the session. The photo is hazy because I barely managed to find a place to sit despite reaching the venue well in advance.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

A BBC Hindi show on the first volume of the #Vajpayee bio — a slightly dramatic rendering of the politics of the early 1970s. In case this interests someone, please watch in on the BBC’s YouTube:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

8 months

‘Subhas Chandra Bose’s ties to Nazism and fascism were stronger than historians have acknowledged, and a detailed study of radio can help revise the previously accepted narratives of his life.’

Himal Southasian

@Himalistan

8 months

Radio’s role in making and unmaking Southasia’s borders | Preeti Raghunath Radio listenership can act as connective tissue, welding together communities that have been artificially dismemberment by rigid border regimes.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

10 months

Dhanyawad guruji for that sumptuous Andhra thaali at Nagarjuna. So glad to, at long last, meet Anisha and you.

Awanish Kumar

@awanishkumar86

10 months

We have known each other for more than 15 years, but we met for the first time yesterday. Lekin jaisa Kaifi Sahab ne kaha hai: Beqaraar dil iss tarah mile Jis tarah kabhi hum juda na the. I also got an author signed copy of Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

The great @parakala discussing his book The Crooked Timber of New India with @Apoorvanand__ at the Press Club.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

But it was really impressive that every once in a while Savvy put a writer or a journalist on the cover, which continues to be rare even three decades later. In the photos below are: @sheela2010 , @NamitaGokhale_ , @taslimanasreen , Sadia Dehlavi.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Fine piece, Sharan! There is nothing morally grey here. For anyone with some intellectual clarity, the idea of a caste census ought to be exceedingly simple: evasion can never be a solution; in fact evasion is often the opposite of a solution.

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@sharanidli

11 months

This week, the Bihar High Court is deciding on whether the government should be allowed to conduct a caste census. @TnagarTornado and I argue that the opposition to the census stands on weak legal grounds. @IndianExpress

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

“Agar mere zamaane mein metro chalta, toh main Entire Political Science ke saath lage haath DU mein Entire Economics aur Entire Santhali bhi padh leta.”

Anurag Minus Verma

@confusedvichar

1 year

“Agar mein Rajiv Chowk ka naam badal ke Savarkar chowk kar dun to hmmm 🤔 ”

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Lovely news! M. M. Kreem is the most accomplished Indian composer you may have never heard of. Despite the fact that he composed mostly in Telugu, his old melodies—Zakhm, Jism, Saaya, Rog—are deeply embedded in my memories of childhood and adolescence.

Golden Globe Awards

@goldenglobes

1 year

The winner for Best Song - Motion Picture is @mmkeeravaani for their song "Naatu Naatu" featured in @RRRMovie ! Congratulations! 🎥✨🎵 #GoldenGlobes

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

2 years

V. S. Naipaul would have turned 90 today. Here is what he wrote on the Jan Sangh-RSS in 1976, during the Emergency:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

Nothing fancy but I can safely recommend kakori at Qureshi's outside Khan Market metro. It's a tiny, sasta place that Manoj introduced me to many years ago. We still go there; you can join us one of these days! 😄

Gilles Verniers

@GillesVerniers

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@chacchachoudhry @WestlandBooks @karthikavk @parakala @newindiafndtion @Akshayamukul @ajithags @ssurepally @mohanguruswamy @Manthan_India @lamakaan That's great. But more importantly, where do you find great kebabs in Delhi ? (asking for a friend from Lucknow).

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Dhanyawaad, @soutikBBC , for your close reading and your patient queries. It was a pleasure discussing the book with you! 🌸

Soutik Biswas

@soutikBBC

1 year

The popular narrative that LK Advani was responsible for mainstreaming Hindu nationalism "is an ideologically lazy, self-deceptive analysis that wholly bypasses an earlier trend," argues @chacchachoudhry , author of a new biography of Vajpayee.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

#SharadYadav , who passed away last night, shot into the limelight in January 1975 for crushing his Congress opponent in the Jabalpur LS by-elections. A popular student activist, he fought from jail as a joint opposition candidate, the "people's candidate." He was 27.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

11 months

This one hasn't aged well: as a punishment for peddling stereotypes, the makers of this confused video should all be made to read Orientalism cover to cover.

Mimansa Shekhar

@mimansashekhar

11 months

#MadeInIndia (1995) #AlishaChinai Actor: Milind Soman (Among the most popular names in this list, he also did music albums Jaanam Samjha Karo & Deewana, films Tarkieb, 16 December, Rules etc, and TV shows Sea Hawks & Captain Vyom. He continues to set fitness goals)

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

The great Manoj Mitta signs copies of his new book Caste Pride!

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Still too sad and numb to articulate. But: thank you for everything, @PatrickFrench . Will miss the high energy and vibe of these hazy photos from the 2014 LS road trip in Bihar-UP. See you on the other side—if such a thing exists.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

An associate editor at IBN7 was fired yesterday. He'd complained against biased coverage of Kejriwal. #Network18Blues http://t.co/Iv4PbjkkXX

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

6 months

No bone of contention here. Quite simply, there exists no (primary or secondary) archival evidence from 1971 or thereabouts where he refers to IG as Durga.

ThePolitics.in

@thepolitics_in

6 months

The claim that Atal Bihari Vajpayee ever hailed Indira Gandhi as 'Durga' remains a bone of contention. Two biographers provide different views, but one might wonder if it matters, considering Vajpayee, throughout his political life, made numerous statements that could easily be

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

2 years

Don't know anyone who tracks the perils of the gig economy like @anumayhem does. Her "काम की ज़िंदगी" podcast on @SunoIndia_in is illuminating and scary. Do listen:

काम की ज़िंदगी: जब Urban Company, Salon और Spa महिला "गिग वर्कर्स" ने विरोध जता कर हक़ माँगे

कंपनियों व विशेषज्ञों का मानना है की इंटरनेट अग्ग्रेगेटर कंपनियों के "गिग वर्क" में "फ़्लेक्सिबिलिटी”, या अपनी मर्ज़ी के घंटे उपलब्ध होने के कारण, यह महिलाओं को ख़ास आकर्षित करेगा, और जो महिलायें...

www.sunoindia.in

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

The third edition has a longish chapter on these developments and I’m chuffed to receive a hardback of the new edition. There is a grim, revealing omission on the cover: the previous editions were subtitled 'The History of the World's Largest Democracy'. [2/2]

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

5 months

I was supremely impressed by the breadth of @SamDalrymple123 's vision for this project. Glad to know he managed to finish a draft in time. Cheers to our Martin Amis-in-making! :)

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

5 months

Reading a manuscript of @SamDalrymple123 's brilliant, brilliant Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India 1937-71, and completely blown away by it. He has such a gift for making accessible and fascinating complex tangles of late colonial history, and it makes me realise how

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

This India After Gandhi paperback is from the early days of UPA-II — when Kejriwal was largely unknown outside the Delhi NGO space, and not many could foresee that the BJP would make enough hay during the Anna/IAC agitation to make a swift comeback. [1/2]

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Moving every five minutes between the Persianate and the hawai-jahaaz ages!

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

I mention BRA to show that whereas the Hindu Right actively detested him in the early decades, by the 1970s some of them had come around to respecting him, even if grudgingly, and even appropriating him once in a while. [1/2]

aakash solanki

@theplaa

1 year

Having said so, one remains curious about the spectre of Ambedkar on Vajpayee and his contemporaries or the general strategy work Vajpayee and folks had to undertake in order to maintain Indian politics an 80/20 game vs a 15/85 one.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Not quite! Decisions on remaking/remixing are taken mostly by producers, with help from composers. In the larger ecosystem of film production, singers—even someone as wildly popular as Arijit Singh—wield ridiculously little clout...

Ali Sethi, Pasoori are so big that Arijit Singh looks small for trying to own it

Hindi film remakes take regional songs to a wider audience but the big Bollywood singer gets the fame not the original artiste.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Caste Pride is available now at all bookstores and on the local Amazon. If you are in Delhi, please come for the launch: May 4, IIC, 6: 30 p.m.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Thank you, @iamrana ! 🙏🏽🌻

Rana Safvi رعنا राना

@iamrana

1 year

It was under this charming, seemingly liberal leader that Jan Sangh and the BJP rose to power. Looking forward to reading about the ideology that shaped Mr. Vajpayees's political commitments, which paved the way for the Hindu right and to understand the contradictions of his

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Abhishek Choudhary

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Interesting piece on why TV channels score zero on culture & literary reporting http://t.co/ImdDxyrjbu (cc: @snigdhapoonam , @nilanjanaroy )

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Heroes are in the end, all of them, fallen heroes. Shanti Bhushan’s opposition to reservation was deeply unfortunate, though not entirely surprising, and undercuts his legacy.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

2 years

@CViraraghavan @siminpatel @Akshayamukul @Biharibole @anumayhem @PrashansaTaneja Sure! It’s just one more para, but hardly lacking in punch. :)

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

@narayani_basu @scroll_in I'm so grateful for this long, careful, wholesome review, @narayani_basu . It will take another slow reading or two before I can say something clever about it. But: thank you for sparing time to write this! 🙏🌤️💙

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

Haha. It was only a coincidence that on 6 Feb CII had fullpage ads in Express and Jagran hailing Modi - and only in Delhi editions @Amannama

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Pan Macmillan India

@PanMacIndia

8 months

VAJPAYEE by @chacchachoudhry MARGINLANDS by @AratiKumarRao HEAVY METAL by @ameershahul

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

@Roshanjnu जी, बिलकुल -- परसो शाम @Bahrisons_books में हमारी लम्बी ड्यूटी लगी थी! :)

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Glad it reached you. I clicked this photo in Feb 2017.

Namita Gokhale

@NamitaGokhale_

1 year

#Throwback : 1988 : A lifetime ago. Thank you @hemalisodhi for sharing this blast from the past …

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Never thought of @Javedakhtarjadu , who turns 77 today, as good-looking—until my eyes fell on this photo in the Savvy magazine archives. It is from 1985–86, when he had just made the transition from writing screenplays to lyrics.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

4 months

No - Kohbar Ki Shart has, mercifully, been back in print for a while; have seen it at @RajkamalBooks stalls. It's available online too: (Thanks for quoting my ancient piece!) cc: @satya_nirupam

Kohbar Ki Shart

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@IWTKQuiz

10 months

According to this @thecaravanindia article, Keshab Chandra Mishra's novel Kohbar ki Shart went out of print in 2012. It is sad that the novel didn't benefit from the massive success of the movies that it spawned :(

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9 years

Said no one: Bihar just lost 14 days of crucial budget session. The tragedy of cow-belt politics is, Yahan kaam kam posturing jyada hota hai

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

. @governancenow Here's Kalam's letter: it's not at all "damning Amartya Sen out in public". Ensure veracity please! http://t.co/XZVBnPLj3W

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

Mangal Raj: Brahmin men copulating with Brahmin women to make Brahmin babies over centuries to ensure that 5% continue to own 95% resources.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

Thanks for taking me on board, Teesta. We are together in this! 🙌

Teesta Guha Sarkar

@TeestaGuha

1 year

Every so often a new manuscript comes along & dazzles us with its brilliance & distinction—Abhishek Choudhary’s magisterial biography of ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE brims with these qualities. We are thrilled to be publishing these landmark volumes with @picadorbooks & @newindiafndtion .

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

शाम की धूप | the evening sun.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

2 years

Happy to receive two new books! Thank you, @newindiafndtion , for sending across the Fernandes biography; and @PanMacIndia for the compendium of Krishna Bose's writings on Netaji. Hopefully, both these books will enrich our understanding of two monumental political characters.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

@prempanicker The third book on your list is totally unmissable, sir. 😺

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

10 years

True. MT @HumaraAdhikar When there are more cops than reporters, it tells you something about our media #blindmedia http://t.co/d4ipiTxbHy

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

BJP had half-page ads in all Hin & Eng papers today, except for Pioneer (bottom-right quarter). Bhala apne ghar mein kaun campaigning karta?

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Abhishek Choudhary

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1 year

My broader point is that they always resolved the dilemma of social reforms vs. sangathan in favour of the latter because it was ultimately much more convenient for them. [2/2] Thanks for your careful reading! 🌻

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@chacchachoudhry

11 months

@AsimAli6 @hganjoo_153 For someone so wise you’re shamefully young, Asim! 😆

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

Received the new @Himalistan : great cover, promising content.

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

The rise of Hindutva in Siwan has coincided with the RJD criminal-politician Shahabuddin’s decline. My report:

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

10 months

Flies in chartered planes, dresses like a peacock, plays a rajguru. Wikipedia: "वर्तमान में अविवाहित हैं परन्तु शीघ्र ही विवाह करने का विचार कर रहे हैं।उन्होंने ये भी बताया की जयाकिशोरी उनकी बहन जैसी हैं तथा उनके और जयाकिशोरी के विवाह की खबर अफवाह मात्र है" Waah, kya life hai!

Nakul Kamal Nath

@NakulKNath

10 months

परम पूज्य पंडित धीरेंद्र कृष्ण शास्त्री जी (श्री बागेश्वर धाम सरकार) का छिन्दवाड़ा हवाई पट्टी पर स्वागत किया । हमारा सौभाग्य है छिन्दवाड़ा की पावन भूमि पर आपके चरण स्पर्श हुए गुरुदेव ।

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

JICYMI: An excellent, timely profile of Asaduddin Owaisi by @PatrickFrench2 : http://t.co/hT4x0EjDgP

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

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IANS

@ians_india

1 year

Picador India will publish a two-volume definitive biography of former Prime Minister #AtalBihariVajpayee in April and December 2023, with Picador UK publishing a single volume in December to mark his 100th birth anniversary. @picadorbooks

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

1 year

He also sang a version of the wildly popular Awaarapan-banjarapan from Jism (2002). KK—may his soul rest in peace—would sometimes open his live concerts with this song, but MM Kreem’s own version, which did not make it to the film, is probably as good.

Awaarapan Banjarapan - 2002

Provided to YouTube by Saregama India LtdAwaarapan Banjarapan - 2002 · M. M. KreemJism℗ 2003 Saregama India LtdReleased on: 2003-01-17Composer: M. M. KreemLy...

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

9 years

मितरों, आप सब से निवेदन -- और अपेक्षा -- है, अब से आप जहाँ भी जाएँगे, एक मधुबनी पैंटिंग ज़रूर ले जाएँगे|

Narendra Modi

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Gifted a Madhubani Painting to the Lord Mayor of Hannover. http://t.co/NZrnBpyCQu http://t.co/dEK9IwLbe6

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Abhishek Choudhary

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@MilanV Lovely to hear your feedback, @MilanV ! As someone who has quoted your work in the past, I am grateful that you took time out to read the book. 🌼

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Abhishek Choudhary

@chacchachoudhry

6 months

The only thing standing between me and psychedelic pleasures.