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This event is special because of three reasons. 1) Karan Madhok is my friend from Landour. What a joy to celebrate his book in Bombay. 2) This is The Plank’s first book event. It’s a start. We intend to do more, to cherish and contribute to India’s literary culture in

We talked about Odomos, amrit, Thang Ta - and yeah, cannabis in India, too. Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of my book, ‘Ananda’, hosted by Ink N Brew, Mumbai. Special thanks to Samarth Bansal of The Plank for leading the event! Aleph Book Company Kanishka Gupta

nice bit of timely sleuthing The Plank that calls out a 'measurement system of convenience, a system where success exists on paper while the air tells another story' theplankmag.com/toxic-air-trut…

NEW: National Clean Air Programme was meant to solve the air quality crisis. Instead, we have an architecture of selective measurement—a system of convenience, where success exists on paper while the air tells another story. Annouchka Behrmann & I report The Plank (link—next tweet)

oh yay! thanks Rest of World 🥰 in case you want to read my story too: theplankmag.com/ai-safe-city

really excellent story in The Plank to understand the air crisis in the country and why plans to tackle it are missing the point. also want to shout out the editing here, which makes this one of the clearest pieces on air that ever i've read (LOTS) theplankmag.com/toxic-air-truth

Samarth Bansal with The Plank doing what journalism should have been doing all along. This article made my heart drop a little. We're inured to the cycle of deteriorating AQI and yet nothing changes. Maybe this is why: theplankmag.com/toxic-air-truth

Why our pollution control data is a lot of - hot air. Excellent investigative piece. Great reporting and fabulous narrative. Clear clean and precise, unlike our air and its measurement! By Samarth Bansal and Annouchka Behrmann The Plank

Delhi's pollution numbers just don't add up. It's a mess. For over a decade, the city has tried to measure what's polluting its air. What's happening now is weird: a study gets commissioned, results are out, and then its cancelled. Without explanation. The latest being a

Back in July when I reached out to Samarth Bansal lamenting my zero longform experience but the desire to work on one, he put his faith in me. with his guidance & more than thorough editing, we attempt to understand what's wrong in Bollywood. The Plank theplankmag.com/bolly-control-…

What's wrong with Bollywood? Why are theaters running empty? Why did Dharma make just ₹60 lakhs in profit last year when Maddock made ₹80 crore? For The Plank, Takshi Mehta dove into this world and found a story about a system straining under its own contradictions—what

"The industry’s greatest trap isn’t failed experiments. It’s the reluctance to experiment at all—and making experiments (and failure) more costly" The Plank dives into the storytelling gap that's bothering so many of us in this story by Takshi Mehta. theplankmag.com/bolly-control-…

Now that Bryan Johnson has got us talking about air quality, a reality check (via The Plank) —WHO says anything above 5 micrograms PM2.5 per cubic meter is unsafe. —India sets its standard at 40—already eight times higher. —Delhi’s average is 131. —And in those weeks

“A film doesn’t fail; a budget does.” Late to this excellent piece on the Indian Film Industry by Takshi Mehta theplankmag.com/bolly-control-…

Are global democracy indices perfect? No. Do they deserve critique? Absolutely. But what Indian government did when its rankings fell isn't just critique—it's a masterclass in narrative control. Anisha Dutta's reporting reveals the blueprint. Read The Plank. (Link in next.)

A phone call with Samarth Bansal long ago discussing years of reporting and investigating how the Indian government tried to control its global image and narrative after decline in democracy rankings led to this piece in his amazing new magazine The Plank theplankmag.com/india-democrac…

fantastic article!! also highlights something we’ve been pointing out for about 7-8 years now

as always: redirecting everyone to the brilliant piece Takshi Mehta wrote for The Plank. creativity is a showing of risk/uncertainty, and it's high time Bollywood went back to the basics with that principle. piece in the next tweet below:

In 2020, India's top ministers devised a new comms strategy. Not to fix governance. Not to address criticism. But to track journalists, amplify loyalists, and "neutralise" critics—turning narrative control into policy. How did this play out? 🧵Look at how the govt handled