| | | The 17th Lok Sabha that reshaped India’s legislative framework through landmark laws, celebrated 75 years of Independence, shifted to a new building and survived the Covid-19 pandemic, completed its last session on Saturday. | THE DAILY QUIZ X sounds Chinese but was born in India. X is described as cauliflower florets batter-fried in a spicy sauce. Goa, however, has banned X at local fairs because it can contain unsafe food dyes, adulterated oil and other additives. What is X? a. Gobi Schezwan
b. Aloo Gobi
c. Gobi Manchurian
d. Gobi Pakora TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY PM: 17th Lok Sabha has been a game-changer Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the last five years saw ‘reform, perform and transform’ in the country simultaneously. Thanking everyone, especially Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, on the last sitting of the 17th Lok Sabha, PM Modi said in the last five years, this Lok Sabha faced the challenge of Covid and adopted a new way of working. The MPs did not dither to reduce their salary by 30%, and the subsidy from canteen food was also stopped saving the MPs from public ridicule, PM Modi said. On shifting the sittings to the new Parliament building, PM Modi remembered the establishment of the Sengol in the new building. Read more. | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING A long shelf life: How a book stall in a market became Rupa publishers There’s a story Rajen Mehra likes to tell, about his grand-uncle Daudayal Mehra, founder of Rupa Publications. When he first gave up his hosiery business to strike out as a bookseller, in the bustling book market of College Street, Kolkata, his mother sent him off with a blessing and a reminder: If his first customer was a Muslim, his new business was bound to succeed. “This could be dismissed as superstition, but, to me, it is representative of a time pre-Partition, when the two communities, Hindus and Muslims, lived in amity and their trade, profits and losses were dependent on each other,” Mehra writes, in his new book, Never Out of Print: The Rupa Story (January 2024). Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX Planet of the apps: See what the average day will look like in five years As the sci-fi writer William Gibson put it: The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. Well then, based on AI progress, the diffusion path of innovations, and observed consumer behaviour, what will the average day look like, five years from now? For one thing, artificial intelligence will be everywhere — in digital assistants, smart products and devices, augmented reality and virtual reality, in workplaces, public spaces, transport infrastructure, healthcare, learning environments and more. We will know where almost everything and everyone is at all times. Read more. | | THE SPORTING LIFE BY RUDRANEIL SENGUPTA Man on the run When we interviewed Yashasvi Jaiswal for a Wknd profile last May, he looked slightly nervous. He was 21, and in the midst of his breakthrough season in the Indian Premier League (IPL). I asked if he would prefer Hindi or English. “English, please… I am still learning and I want to practise,” he said. To break the ice, I started to discuss his training routine. He must be on a great exercise programme, because he had put on some serious lean muscle in about a year, I said. (In 2022, the 6-ft-tall batter was scrawny). Jaiswal’s eyes lit up. “The effects are showing!” he said, laughing. Read more. | | HT THIS DAY:Feb 11, 2015 Kejriwal Sweeps It All AAP Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party surged to a landslide win in Delhi that surpassed the wildest of expectations and left a routed Bharatiya Janata Party licking its wounds in the city-state from which it rules the country. Read more. | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Shahana Yasmin. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
