Shoaib Daniyal

Dec 31, 2024 | scroll.in | Shoaib Daniyal

In 2006, an American gent called Jack Dorsey started a website where you could share short messages. Called Twitter, the social media website would go on to change the world – and especially journalism. Now called X, Twitter’s incredibly real-time nature and the fact that newsmakers use it heavily to reach their audiences means it has become indispensable to journalists. In fact, it is hard to be a journalist today without being on the platform.

Dec 12, 2024 | scroll.in | Shoaib Daniyal

Rajdeep Sardesai is one of India’s best known journalists. In this conversation with Shoaib Daniyal, he speaks about his new book 2024: The Election That Surprised India. Why was Sardesai, along with so many journalists and psephologists, surprised by the result of the polls? What did a lack of majority to Narendra Modi mean? Sardesai argues that the result does not mean an end to Modi but it does indicate that the Indian voter wants a pause on the relentlessly bitter politics of the past decade.

Dec 5, 2024 | indiafix.stck.me | Shoaib Daniyal

Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. Few policy tools have captured the imagination of India’s politicians and voters as cash transfers. From Modi to Mamata, every government in India is falling over itself to hand out money. Even though the actual sums are quite modest, this represents a stark welfare choice for the world’s largest country.

Nov 9, 2024 | scroll.in | Shoaib Daniyal

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Nov 1, 2024 | scroll.in | Shoaib Daniyal

Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. This time we have a rare newsletter on global politics: the upcoming US elections. We ask, how will it affect the world – and India? Or will it at all? As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like it, to get it in your inbox every week, sign up here (click on “follow”). On November 5, the United State of America will elect its 47th President in an election that many Americans see as the “most important election in history”.