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The Weekly Vine Edition 38: America-Born Confident Desis
April 16, 2025, 2:28 PM IST
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we have the rise of the American-Born Confident Desis in the US, the world’s “coolest dictator”, Harvard’s clash with the Trump administration, a glam…
April 16, 2025, 2:28 PM IST
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Behind the curtains: Choli ke peeche capitalism hai
April 15, 2025, 5:17 PM IST
In the 1993 classic Khal Nayak, many Indian males of a particular vintage had their first ontological brush with salubriousness when Madhuri Dixit asked: “Choli ke peeche kya hai?” One was too young in 1993 to appreciate that…
April 15, 2025, 5:17 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 37: The deported, start-up Mahabharata, and the Bihar clock tower
April 9, 2025, 6:53 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. I was faced with a modern iteration of Karna’s chariot-stuck-in-the-ground curse, which one likes to call: the app-based transportation curse failure. If one needs a…
April 9, 2025, 6:53 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 36: Is your Ghibli portrait destroying the planet?
April 2, 2025, 5:19 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we cast a cold eye over the Ghibli trend, ponder how Trump’s tariff wars could end up helping India, pour over…
April 2, 2025, 5:19 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 35: Leaked War Chats
March 26, 2025, 4:24 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. We apologise for being absent from your feed last week. They say artists must suffer for their art. Vincent van Gogh painted like a genius but…
March 26, 2025, 4:24 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 34: The Trump of World Cricket?
March 12, 2025, 2:49 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, yours truly is in the city of his birth—the one that venerates bearded dudes (from Marx to Tagore), old unwashed buildings, and gustatory…
March 12, 2025, 2:49 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 33: Zelenskyy’s bad appraisal, Europe loses its mojo, and yo Sharma so fat
March 5, 2025, 4:31 PM IST
Hello there, and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, we cover Zelenskyy’s terrible appraisal at the White House, Europe’s diminishing relevance since the Treaty of Westphalia was signed in 1648, Elon Musk’s ever-expanding…
March 5, 2025, 4:31 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 32: The Shashi Tharoor conundrum, Lord Shiva’s cosmic dance, and Mr Bond’s new master
February 26, 2025, 5:12 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This we have the Shashi Tharoor conundrum, DOGE vs America’s SBI employees, Vivek’s attempt to get out of MAGA DOGE house, James Bond’s new master,…
February 26, 2025, 5:12 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 31: Elon Musk and Genghis Khan, Dilliwalla earthquake, and JD Vance vs Germany
February 19, 2025, 3:12 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, I am writing the newsletter while flying 30,000 feet in a metal container, as people around me complain about the lack of legroom—because most…
February 19, 2025, 3:12 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 30: The Free Speech Delusion
February 12, 2025, 3:39 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we have The Free Speech Delusion, the rise and fall of Arvind Kejriwal, the “normalise Indian hate” row in DOGE, the remarkable revelations…
February 12, 2025, 3:39 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 29: Musk-Trump vs Deep State, Delhi’s voting day, and a Sanskari-MAGA Love Story
February 5, 2025, 4:52 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, we have Musk-Trump vs. the Deep State, Delhi’s voting day, Kash Patel’s love story, ruminations about the budget, and the word of the day:…
February 5, 2025, 4:52 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 28: Why there’s no point worrying about DeepSeek
January 29, 2025, 4:55 PM IST
In this week’s edition, we talk about DeepSeek, Trump bullying Colombia, Vivek’s post-DOGE innings, Jasprit Bumrah becoming the Test Cricketer of the Year, and our word of the week: FAFO.Hello there and welcome to another…
January 29, 2025, 4:55 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 27: Citizenship Caned, DEI Another Day and the highlights from Day 1 of Trump 2.0
January 22, 2025, 6:22 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, we commemorate the orange one’s return to the White House. But first, a little trip down memory lane on how Donald Trump helped me…
January 22, 2025, 6:22 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 26: Why Mark Zuckerberg is like a Bihari politician
January 15, 2025, 5:32 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we have Mark Zuckerberg LARPing as a Bihari politician, surviving Yograj Singh, Trump’s madman diplomacy, the 2025 Maha Kumbh and the Neil Gaiman…
January 15, 2025, 5:32 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 25: Tata Trudeau, Musk vs UK, and more…
January 8, 2025, 4:54 PM IST
Hello and welcome to 25th edition of the Weekly Vine (barring special editions). In this week’s rant, we take a pause to celebrate the liberal defender of the world, pore over Musk’s war with the UK,…
January 8, 2025, 4:54 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 24: Why tech bros (and Indian-Americans) won the MAGA Civil War
January 1, 2025, 3:53 PM IST
Hello and welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Vine in this perfect square year. I have always found resolutions funny, as if a human’s willpower is somehow tied to the gravitational forces that…
January 1, 2025, 3:53 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Awards 2024: And the winners are…
December 25, 2024, 6:15 PM IST
Hello and welcome to the final edition of this year’s The Weekly Vine. First, a thank you to all our discerning readers, who have patiently sifted through 23 editions and left amazing comments such as: “Job…
December 25, 2024, 6:15 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 22: Zakir Hussain’s soul takes flight
December 18, 2024, 3:11 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of Weekly Vine. For those keeping count, we are two editions away from 2025, which, mathematically speaking, is one of the coolest years because it is a perfect square (a…
December 18, 2024, 3:11 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 21: Thirst-trap assassin, Oct 7 fallout, and Pushpa 2 success
December 11, 2024, 3:10 PM IST
In this week’s edition, we have a thirst-trap assassin, Oct 7 fallout, Pushpa 2, India’s pink ball woes, and the worst PR stunt of all time… Since we started the Weekly Vine, we seem to be…
December 11, 2024, 3:10 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 20: Hard Kash, ek choti si Martial Law, and tu janta hai Hunter ka baap kaun Hai?
December 4, 2024, 4:25 PM IST
In this week’s edition we have a pro-Ram Mandir FBI chief, martial law in South Korea, Hunter’s papa, India’s GDP gloom and Oxford’s fitting word of the year… Hello and welcome to another edition of…
December 4, 2024, 4:25 PM IST
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