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Mumbai’s plays used to have a Karachi audience. Lahore’s painters held Delhi shows. Activists walked across the border. After years of declining relations, India & Pakistan are now locked in a cultural cold war. wapo.st/4my3HeC

On the dangers that information warfare blows back on your own public: What a quote.

"But one senior Indian national security official said the misinformation played to India’s advantage...“Sometimes the collateral is your own audience, but that is how it is,” the official added. “That is how war has evolved.”" What a quote on misinformation in Indian newsrooms!

An incredible quote at the end of this piece from an Indian news anchor: “Every channel did make at least one mistake, but not one of our mistakes was against this country."

Major Indian newsrooms aired misinformation during the conflict with Pakistan in May, saying Pakistani cities had been destroyed and airing unrelated visuals (Karishma Mehrotra / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/… mediagazer.com/250605/p9#a250…

On India Inside Out this week, I wrote about the sense that Operation Sindoor was a military success, but a narrative failure for India, and in particular why Trump presents not just an IR but a *domestic* vulnerability for Modi.

The piece is here, including links to lots of other insightful work on Sindoor by Christopher Clary, Sanjeet, Arzan Tarapore, Sushant Singh, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta and more rohanvenkat.substack.com/p/operation-si…

Parallel reality, powered by primetime📺 During the Indo-Pak conflict, misinformation ran louder than facts—Indian media blurred the lines between war and narrative. A Must-read report by Karishma Mehrotra for The Washington Post

How Indian media spread sensational misinformation on May 9, and scored a major self-goal. This is a #MustRead by Karishma Mehrotra for all journalists, for whom their credibility, and efforts to give their reader or viewer verified information must be an article of faith.

Breaking news: An Air India passenger jet bound for London carrying 232 passengers and 12 crew members aboard crashed in the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, according to the airline and Indian officials. wapo.st/3TkROvf

wapo.st/44eNRhW From the hospital near the plane crash in Ahmedabad.

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The death toll on the ground after the Ahmedabad crash underscored an overlooked air safety risk: dense construction dangerously close to airports. We tracked audits & court cases in six cities to show the extent of the problem. supriya gift link: wapo.st/4n7SaTJ

AI is changing Indian accents in call centers; companies say it could bring more work. But pessimists point to AI quality assurance replacing humans. To understand the future of work, there may be no better place to look than India’s BPO sector. wapo.st/40hWjKV

To understand the future of work, there may be no better place to look than India’s back offices for multinationals. wapo.st/4eurU26