Very happy to be nominated for a Covering Climate Now award for my Fifty Two story about forecasting the wild, erratic monsoon storms of the future. I promise to remember everyone when I am super famous.

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This feature by colindaileda takes on an often overlooked aspect of the climate story — the accuracy of extreme weather forecasting, especially in developing countries on the climate emergency’s frontlines. fiftytwo.in/paradigm-shift…

Two bottles of ketchup: sweet and spicy + no onion-no garlic.

A bowl of upma.

And Nikhita Venugopal. Who will win?
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. TheNewsMinute uses the term 'lowered caste' to describe M.K.Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan during their participation in an anti-caste program. This sparked a discussion about the term ‘lowered caste’ Ragamalika Dhanya Rajendran 🧵⬇️

Very excited to finally see the Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine, which I contributed to. And many, many thanks to Colleen Taylor Sen for including me in this project ✨

British historian Patrick French dies at 56 scroll.in/latest/1045739…

'Existentially distressed millennials (like me), who are more likely to delay traditional milestones like marriage and homeownership, are probably filling the emotional void with their fur children—and their meals.'

I....

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Congratulations Dhanya Rajendran! 🥳

“They humiliated us as impure and dirty every day for eating beef, but they wanted the milk of the beef eaters,”Narsamma~ History of Telangana Dalit women exploitation & humiliation by dominant caste Doras. @JUppuleti ✊💙 aje.io/vduanc via Al Jazeera English

A dream of a seamless, mechanised waterscape, with implications that could change an entire ecosystem.

colindaileda - this is remarkable writing & a fascinating story. Superb stuff :)

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The Ken is far from India's most famous river, but it marks the start of a massive, hugely destructive project that could warp the landscape of the entire country.

I wrote about it for Fifty Two, with support from Pulitzer Center.

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Roald Dahl was brilliant, also problematic. Is it on us to ‘clean him up’? How do we ensure that children are reading books that won’t plant wrong ideas and pass on offensive stereotypes? Or for that matter, should we? @sowmya_rajen writes

thenewsminute.com/article/roald-…

It’s legitimately scary how good phishing and banking scams have become. Just 15 minutes ago I got this text and the link led to this VERY CONVINCING landing page.

Here’s how you can spot a scam:

“I’m not worried about dying,” Mr. Iyer said. “Seriously, when you’re dead you don’t know what the hell is happening, so this book is not an homage to my death. This is really celebrating life, family, friends and food.”

💔

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What are some of your favorite food related podcasts?

Can be about anything, food history, food science, economics, language related to food, etc

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Chellanam is just one example of how even local politics is being driven by climate change more every day