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Sadanand Dhume

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Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

CFR Senior Fellow, WSJ Columnist. Author of My Friend the Fanatic.

Washington, DC

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@dhume
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The Soviet Union’s collapse made India rethink its experiment with state planning. China’s rise may force it to rethink caste-based affirmative action as well. [My take] v @WSJopinion
Opinion | India’s Affirmative-Action Lesson for America
From wsj.com
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Jun 18, 2025
Jibes about Modi’s English are tiresome and juvenile. Like many Indians in public life he understands English perfectly well. He does not speak it with the fluency of a native speaker, but so what? English is Modi’s third or fourth language after Gujarati, Hindi and (possibly)
Devi
@DefiantDevii
Jun 18, 2025
Starmer seems to be having a charged discussion with Modi but does Modi understand any of it? I guess he was intelligent enough this time to prevent himself from laughing out loud, done when he has no clue. Do Indians deserve to watch this clown show?
Jawaharlal Nehru (Satire)
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Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Apr 20, 2022
Just listened to a Twitter Spaces interaction where more than 150k people tuned in to listen to Imran Khan. PTI’s social media game seems streets ahead of its rivals, though how much this matters in elections is an open question.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Feb 9, 2024
You don’t have to be an Imran Khan supporter to acknowledge the glaringly obvious fact that he won the people’s mandate fair and square. Hard to respect any commentator or journalist who can’t acknowledge this upfront. #PakistanElection #PakistanElection2024
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Jan 18, 2025
I’m on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. The guy next to me is sipping an iced coffee from Starbucks and watching a video of Milan Fashion Week on his iPhone—with the volume off. It’s dark outside. The only sounds are of the speeding Shinkansen, though occasionally I catch the
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
May 19, 2020
If you’re in India, please let me know if you can see this tweet. Thanks.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Jun 13, 2024
There’s nothing wrong with a Muslim man marrying a Hindu woman. There’s also nothing wrong with a Muslim woman marrying a Hindu man. If your first instinct is to call the cops on someone promoting interfaith marriage, then you’re not a liberal. You’re probably a religious bigot.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Sep 15, 2019
.@Malala deserved to be applauded when she took bullets for speaking up for girls’ education in Pakistan. She deserves to be applauded for speaking up for human rights in Kashmir. The color of her passport is irrelevant.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Feb 4, 2021
What do Rihanna, Greta Thunberg and Meena Harris have in common? All of them are wrong about India’s farm laws. [My take] #farmersprotest
Opinion | Rihanna Rallies to the Wrong Cause in India
From wsj.com
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Jul 21, 2020
The Indian Supreme Court may jail or fine the lawyer @pbhushan1 for this tweet. If it does so it will: 1. Prove his point. 2. Become a laughing stock around the world.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
May 12, 2021
1. Nobody mocked Covaxin. They asked why it was hastily cleared without completing trials. 2. BJP should care less about India getting “its own” vaccine, more about vaccinating people quickly. Lives matter more than posturing. 3. Vaccine shortage, not hesitancy, is the problem.
Amit Malviya
@amitmalviya
May 12, 2021
India was among the first to get its own vaccine. Opposition mocked it, promoted vaccine hesitancy. Now after the second surge, everyone wants the jab. But there is only so much production capacity. Vaccine isn’t jam that anyone can produce. So we have to schedule and prioritise.
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Jul 14, 2020
If @RahulGandhi had @SachinPilot’s political skills—poise, ambition, hard work, verbal ability and personal warmth—Congress would not be on the skids today. For how long can any party survive by putting lipstick on a pig?
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Feb 26, 2019
Both true: 1. Modi’s response to Pulwama attack is much stronger than Manmohan Singh’s to 2008 Mumbai attacks. 2. India’s restraint in 2008 helps it sell its post-Pulwama response. On the world stage, MMS earned India moral capital that Modi is now spending. #IndiaStrikesPakistan
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Aug 14, 2018
BJP in 2013: Weak rupee = weak leader. BJP in 2018: You need to understand the complex interplay of Federal Reserve policies and emerging market currency risk profiles while appreciating expanded export opportunities provided by changes in global interest rate regimes. #RupeeAt70