Ranjona Banerji

Dehradun, we dream a future without air purifiers and ailments - Question of Cities Two summers ago, when the temperature of Dehradun touched 47 degrees Celsius, many realised the price of sacrificing trees for development and came out to protest. The picturesque hill station has bee...

I ✍️ a letter to Dehradun, to try and save something of itself for the future.
questionofcities.org/dehradun-we-...

The RSS always were and still are the useful idiots of western empire and as I finish writing the section on them in my book, I cannot tell you the rage I feel that their stooge has led the Indian republic to this point. Just sacrificing actual sovereignty in the name of performative nationalism.

Thank you!

Of God, belief, spirituality and other things I cannot do.
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The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes.

Gotta say, so far I'm really happy I voted for her.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

People in the US have taken to the streets after the ICE shootings in Minnesota. They're willing to fight. Put themselves out there.
Not us.
We've lost that. In the past 11 years, if I've seen even 300 people where i live, out to save something, it's been an aberration.

Remembering Mark Tully, a Yardstick of Fair Impartiality - MxMIndia He embraced India and enriched our lives with his observations, writes Ranjona Banerji

Mark Tully, a journalist to remember!
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Ranjona Banerji: Time to stop dreaming?! - MxMIndia Ranjona Banerji scans headlines from the venerable mainstream and doesn't bother to look up those in the lapdog media

In an imaginary democracy how would an imaginary media respond to an absent imaginary prime minister?
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Just precious. DHS guidelines forbids firing at a moving vehicle. Imagine that!

Keep your eyelashes safe, your sanity intact and here's to whatever 2026 throws at us!
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Ranjona Banerji | May Your Eyelashes Remain Safe In 2026! share.google/P6nfz4iMNZ11...

Ranjona Banerji: Of Grok and gigs - MxMIndia “Two events this week demonstrated artificial intelligence and the digital world works. And how easy it is to manipulate minds and behaviour”, writes Ranjona Banerji

The shaming of women by men using @X's Grok and the shaming of gig workers by billionaires demonstrates the double whammy of social media.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Murder

Cartoon featuring fifteen images starting with a white woman attempting different fitness exercises in t-shirt and pants, becoming more tired and eventually going to the fridge then sitting on a sofa with a tray of food

Claire Bretécher, French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women #WomensArt #BackToNormal #FridayFeeling

Sara Banerji obituary Novelist whose stories set in Britain and India combined realistic domestic detail with myth and magic

The @theguardian.com 's obit on my aunt, Sara Banerji. Writer, painter, gardener, teacher, free force of nature.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

Hallo to 2026!

Phew! Thanks!

Pollution Rises, Protections Fall - MxMIndia Although doctors can scream themselves hoarse about the dangers of air pollution, newspapers may well tell you which pranayama exercises to do to save yourself, writes Ranjona Banerji

"Although doctors can scream themselves hoarse about the dangers of air pollution in Delhi, newspapers may well tell you which pranayama exercises to do to save yourself,"
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Have made a huge mistake. Added my date of birth to Bluesky. Now they will send me "age appropriate" stuff.
😱😭😭

Painting with busy multicoloured floral motifs on a black background

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart

Photo featuring a meadow with white flowers amongst which are five horizontal rectangles of coloured stained glass

Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt

Painting featuring a girl in blue in the foreground right and a woman in pink in the background left

Amrita Sher-Gil,
Little Girl in Blue, 1934
Indian modernist painter
#WomensArt

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

total mentions on Fox News so far today

Obama: 30
Epstein: 2

The Optimist Asian Koel calling

nirmalghosh.substack.com/p/the-optimist

Hillary Clinton's emails: 6