Rest in peace, Sir Patrick Stewart 🕊️

We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today. And, in my book, a tremendous friend and man. I learned so much from him. I will miss you, Patrick Stewart, all of my days. @mang0ld

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Apple’s new focus on influencers for events and product “reviews” — people who say nothing but positive things and never ask a legitimate question of Apple executives in exchange for free devices, travel and more, is a serious issue. This echo chamber will lead to mediocrity.

After backing @rapidoapp_ early on, I’m constantly asked: what's the next big bet in mobility? I recently sat down with @ishansp from @thecaptableco to share my investment thesis for AdvantEdge VC and reveal my shortlist of startups driving the EV revolution & @advantEdge_vc strategy to #EndICEAge. 🚀⚡️ the-captable.com/2026/08/wha…

Since Newslaundry is now encouraging anyone associated with the organisation, including former employees, to write to them, here's my experience (again), but publicly. (long thread)

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”. The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all. Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault. Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame. There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them. The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to. What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one. Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested: bioinfo.uib.es/~joemiro/RecE…

Congratulations to @PawanKChandana , @bharathdaka and the entire @SkyrootA team on Vikram-1’s launch. A proud milestone for India’s private space journey.

All-rounder” shabd bahut logon ke liye use hota hai. Sir Garfield Sobers ke liye yeh shabd banaya gaya tha. .Fast bowling, Spin bowling, left handed poetic batting. Ek over mein Six sixes, 365 not out, sirf 23 saal ki umar mein. Way ahead of his times. Is IPL era mein hote, toh sabse expensive player hote , bina shaq. Cricket ne apna sabse complete khiladi khoya hai. Condolences to his family and well-wishers all over the world.

It's true: Android phone maker OnePlus will shut down in the US and Europe as early as this week. It's also planning to exit India and elsewhere outside China in 2027. More details here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: OpenAI’s first product is a mobile, screen-free home smart speaker that a user can build a connection with like an AI companion. Amid Apple’s trade secret lawsuit, the iPhone maker has nothing like it on the market. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Winning here marks greatness. Defence leaves no doubt. Jannik Sinner is the 2026 Gentlemen's Singles Champion. #Wimbledon

We booked an Uber, no one was accepting, so I added +55 as a tip, a driver accepted, I messaged him to ask if he is coming, he read but didn’t respond, I knew the car number, so I started looking for it, when I saw the car, we kept our suitcases and got in, I gave the OTP, he told me that it is wrong, I told him this is what it is showing in the App, he said I have come for Rapido booking and I was like I booked Uber, he cancelled in from of me, I got into a quarrel with him, there was a police officer near by, he was observing and asked what happened, I narrated him the incident, so he instructed the driver to take us, he had no choice, so he reluctantly drove us, but after 200 meters of the Airport, he started his drama, we had to get down in the middle of the road. He told us “Jo ukhaad na hain, ukhaad lo”. I don’t understand, if you do not wish to complete a ride, why accept it on the first place, even if you do by mistake and believe that the fair is not enough, why not cancel right away. Why waste time and energy and spoil someone’s mood? And again someone will call out to me and say that I always paint India as a country with low trust, isn’t it?

Oh please don’t settle. Discovery and court filings gonna be such great reading. 🍿

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23rd June bringing all kinds of magic ✨🇮🇳 19 years ago, it began with an India cap. Today, another proud chapter is added to the story.

This is so typical of Kane Williamson. Just a quiet exit away from the spotlight. One of the finest players of his era, arguably the best batter to emerge from NZ and an outstanding person. Humble, dignified and universally respected.