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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · 2d

From The Editor's Desk @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · 7d

My son stopped to observe the lake during our short run today. He is a romantic.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10d

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · 10d

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Why the Trump-Blair Gaza plan is unlawful

I wrote the book on the (il)legality of international trusteeship. This colonial practice should not be revived in the Palestinian Gaza Strip

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hustling is an under-rated effort in entrepreneurship (sigh)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 9

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 10

So what we do with men who stand in the way WHEN you are having a conversation :-/

Must confess women do it too. But so annoying all the same.

Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Competition law won’t break up Big Tech

US legal doctrine shies away from structural remedies but the behavioural ones aren’t working

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 6

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India's place in the new world order | Mukul Kesavan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India's place in the new world order | Mukul Kesavan

New Delhi spent decades cosying up to the US. The truth is, Washington doesn’t have allies outside the west – it has clients, says historian Mukul Kesavan

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are indisputably in nerd territory.
I had fun working on this.

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Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Developing Countries Outline Contours of the Pathogen Access Benefits Sharing System for Global Health

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Sep 1

India’s Modi hails energy ties with Russia despite US anger on.ft.com/3JHE7Fa

Narendra Modi hails India’s energy ties with Russia despite US anger

Indian prime minister tells Vladimir Putin their countries ‘have walked together shoulder to shoulder’

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Aug 28

The joy of nurturing sources willing to speak on background. Trust is the currency in journalism.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 27

The US has slapped additional levies on India over its purchases of discounted Russian oil, dealing a blow to the world’s fastest-growing large economy and deepening a rift between Washington and New Delhi on.ft.com/4fWmxte

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 25

Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. on.ft.com/41X8Jsz

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 24

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy, says Simon Kuper: on.ft.com/4oO39Th

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Aug 23

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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 23

BCG roiled by internal backlash over Gaza aid work on.ft.com/4mW1V6E

BCG roiled by internal backlash over Gaza aid work

Top Middle East consultant ‘ashamed’ of revelations while CEO’s staff meeting in Dubai prompts walkout

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Priti Patnaik @pritipatnaik.bsky.social · Aug 23

I am at a point where my calendar might collapse from the sheer weight of everything that needs to be plugged into it:

- fast-moving editorial tasks, deadlines, projects
- nuts and bolts of a media operation
- my son's after school classes
- other flotsam from modern life

Has to be another way