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Aarish Chhabra

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  • Associate Director, Marketing and Communications, Indian School of Business
Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Noida
As seen in: Medium, MSN, MSN India, Hindustan Times, NDTV, Substack, The Indian Express, Flipboard, The Quint, HT Syndication
Covers:  Politics, pop culture, subcultures, displacement
Journalist (aka 'content resource'), New Delhi • Author of 'The Big Small Town' (link in bio, buy pls)
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New Parliament Seat Increase: अगर लोकसभा की सीटें बढ़ीं तो उत्तर भारत होगा दक्षिण पर भारी, Explain...

New Parliament Seat Increase: अगर लोकसभा की सीटें बढ़ीं तो उत्तर भारत होगा दक्षिण पर भारी, Explain...

ELO PODCAST — New Parliament Seat Increase: भारत के नए Parliament House building के बारे में बहुत बात हुई है, नई बिल्डिंग को नए भारत का प्रतीक भी कह दिया गया है. अब करते हैं अंदर की बात. नई बिल्डिंग के अंदर लोक सभा में 800 से ज़्यादा लोगों की seating capacity है. जबकि लोक सभा मेंबर तो 550 से कम हैं तो फिर सीटें बढ़ सकती हैं? कब होगा नया delimitation और कैसे? कुछ राज्यों को नंबर बढ़ने से डर क्यों लग रहा है? और क्या लोकतंत्र में आंकड़ा ही सब कुछ है? ये हैं मूल सवाल, जिनके जवाब देने की कोशिश हम 5 मिनट में करेंगे.
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Israel Massive Protests: PM Netanyahu के पैर उखड़े? जानिए क्या है सरकार vs अदालत का मसला

Israel Massive Protests: PM Netanyahu के पैर उखड़े? जानिए क्या है सरकार vs अदालत का मसला

ELO PODCAST — israel #netanyahu #protests Israel Massive Protests: Israel में लाखों लोग सड़कों पर हैं, Defence Minister को निकाल दिया गया है और मांग तख्तापलट तक पहुँच गई है. PM Benjamin Netanyahu ने फिलहाल एक कदम पीछे खींच लिया है, "नहीं तो Civil War ही न हो जाए"। इतने ताकतवर मुल्क में यह सब हो क्या रहा है?
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How Sukhvinder Sukhu Won Chief Minister Race In Himachal Congress: 10 Factors

How Sukhvinder Sukhu Won Chief Minister Race In Himachal Congress: 10 Factors

NDTV — After nearly four decades of his loyalty for the Congress, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has been chosen as Himachal's Chief Minister, though rivals will get significant positions for balance. Numbers first: Of the 40 Congress MLAs in the House of 68, Sukhvinder Sukhu has support of more than half.
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3 Factors In Congress's Himachal Win, 2 Reasons For BJP's Loss

3 Factors In Congress's Himachal Win, 2 Reasons For BJP's Loss

NDTV — Congress has managed to return to power in Himachal Pradesh, though the vote-share difference is not as large as it would have targeted. The BJP fell short despite a resource-driven fight to buck the trend in the hill state.
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Why Meta Layoffs: It Doubled Staff To Over 87,000 In 2 Years, Saw Covid As Growth Time

Why Meta Layoffs: It Doubled Staff To Over 87,000 In 2 Years, Saw Covid As Growth Time

NDTV — Facebook's parent company Meta, which has now laid off around 11,000 of its employees, hired more people than that this year alone - part of a spurt that began with the Covid pandemic in early 2020. From January to September 2022, the headcount at Meta went from 71,970 to 87,314, an increase of over 15,000.
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How Did Wipro Catch 300 "Moonlighters"? Stock Market Investor Has A Viral Theory

How Did Wipro Catch 300 "Moonlighters"? Stock Market Investor Has A Viral Theory

NDTV — How did Wipro, which sacked 300 of its employees recently for working with other IT companies at the same time, come to know of this work-from-home infidelity? The company hasn't explained that - only termed these "moonlighters" as "cheaters"- but a Twitter user's theory is now viral.
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Article 370, Citizenship, Quota...: Chief Justice UU Lalit Inherits Big Questions In Short Tenure

Article 370, Citizenship, Quota...: Chief Justice UU Lalit Inherits Big Questions In Short Tenure

NDTV — The new Chief Justice of India, UU Lalit, will have a short tenure of just about two months and a half, but the Supreme Court under him inherits some of the most far-reaching cases, seeking answers to key constitutional questions.
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Opinion: Sidhu Moosewala, Carrying culture in his contradictions

Opinion: Sidhu Moosewala, Carrying culture in his contradictions

Indian Express — How do you define culture? Sidhu Moosewala may not have said it in those words, but the slain singer-songwriter seemed to ask this question every time he went live on Facebook for one of his post-controversy clarifications. His songs went even further.
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Channi: From 'Patchwork Roads' Gaffe to Punjab's 'Patchwork' CM

Channi: From 'Patchwork Roads' Gaffe to Punjab's 'Patchwork' CM

The Quint — Of the many words being used for Charanjit Singh Channi, the new Punjab CM, 'patchwork' is the oddest. Many believe that his elevation is temporary "patchwork" by Congress to smoothen out the road for Navjot Singh Sidhu, writes Aarish Chhabra.
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लड़कियों को आज़ादी मिलने पर मुझे डर क्यों लग रहा है?: ब्लॉग - BBC News हिंदी

लड़कियों को आज़ादी मिलने पर मुझे डर क्यों लग रहा है?: ब्लॉग - BBC News हिंदी

BBC News — औरतों और उनके मसलों पर बात करने का लाइसेंस लेना मुश्किल नहीं है. बस आपकी कोई बहन होनी चाहिए. आपको तो कुछ नहीं करना, बस परिवार में बहनें हों. मेरी तो तीन बहनें हैं. मैं अक्सर ही खुद को यह लाइसेंस इश्यू कर लेता हूँ.
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Wetlands: High and dry

Wetlands: High and dry

Indian Express — Punjab's ecology has suffered enormously due to the gross misuse of water resources. Area under wetlands has gone down from 1.32 per cent to .46 per cent, and the dangers have encompassed the whole ecological system of the state Owing to gross negligence and insensitive attitude of the government and, more significantly, the common man, the number of wetlands in the state has been declining fast over the last half a century.
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The Fazilka that once sailed the seas

The Fazilka that once sailed the seas

Indian Express — Fazilka, the namesake of a small town in Punjab, was once a steamship that dumped Indian labourers at Fiji Not many, including the inhabitants of this sleepy little town tucked away in a corner of Punjab, will know that there was once a steamship that not only dumped Indian labourers at Fiji, the country they starting ruling half a century later, but the ship even carried the name of their town - Fazilka.
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Watching Lahoriye in times of hatred: Two Punjabs and an India-Pak romance

Watching Lahoriye in times of hatred: Two Punjabs and an India-Pak romance

Hindustan Times — How are you supposed to feel when a hall full of people applauds every dialogue about how the two Punjabs - one in India, the other across a barbed wire, in Pakistan - are essentially the same? Are you supposed to whistle too?
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Fighting drug menace in Punjab: Of fatal fumes and a smokescreen

Fighting drug menace in Punjab: Of fatal fumes and a smokescreen

Hindustan Times — In a park in a Chandigarh sector that houses a major hospital, a man sits on a bench through the day, almost unnoticed. All you need to do is stand next to him, no salutations required; he just needs the intent that your body language will anyway convey.
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Gurdas Maan's 'Punjab' a victim of its own times I OPINION

Gurdas Maan's 'Punjab' a victim of its own times I OPINION

Hindustan Times — Fine, he is a legend, a rare singer-lyricist whose work is celebrated as much in the hinterland as it is in the drawing rooms of Chandigarh. No wonder, his new outing, 'Punjab', is all the rage across the Punjabi-speaking areas in India and abroad.
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Losing Lahore in Chandigarh

Losing Lahore in Chandigarh

Hindustan Times — She is hardly ever on Facebook. It's been three years. She may have got married. She was planning to when we met three years ago. A lot has changed since.
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Chandigarh has a BABU syndrome

Chandigarh has a BABU syndrome

Hindustan Times — This is not a pleasant conversation. It has the potential to harm or ruin friendships. And it is something I have done before, only to regret it later. But let's do it again today. This is a conversation with Chandigarh's Born-And-Brought-Up (BABU) lot that calls this city its own but disowns us, the outsiders who are surely the reason of all problems here.
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The tuck-in man of Kasauli: He who guards the Litfest, a club

The tuck-in man of Kasauli: He who guards the Litfest, a club

Hindustan Times — Fellow employees call him 'daadu', the grandfather, and he decides whether you get to enter Kasauli Club or not, no matter if you're a special invitee to the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival that's held here every year in memory of the 'Sardar in a Light Bulb'.
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Sunil Jakhar & Congress: From a shaky start to an angry goodbye, a story of privilege and powerpl...

Sunil Jakhar & Congress: From a shaky start to an angry goodbye, a story of privilege and powerpl...

Medium — Sunil Jakhar's "goodbye and good luck" to the Congress comes 26 years almost to the day when he lost his first election - from Punjab's Ferozepur Lok Sabha segment in 1996 - and his political career seemed to have ended before it began.
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AAP in Punjab: 'Delhi Model', BJP-Led Centre - Bhagwant Mann's Many Challenges

AAP in Punjab: 'Delhi Model', BJP-Led Centre - Bhagwant Mann's Many Challenges

The Quint — Beyond rhetoric and emotion, the AAP leader has many expectations to live up to.
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Indian Army Widow Remarriage: Punjab Govt & Women as Property

Indian Army Widow Remarriage: Punjab Govt & Women as Property

The Quint — Indian Army Widows & Punjab's Rule: The regressive rule to deny an Army widow annuity if she doesn't wed her brother-in-law remained on the books in Punjab even when it was removed at other places after judicial intervention, writes Aarish Chhabra
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Chandigarh, the city that's not elsewhere

Chandigarh, the city that's not elsewhere

Hindustan Times — It's comforting, sometimes creepy, how everything around you seems to work according to your emotions. For instance, I am sitting at a café in Sector 35 as I write this - for a change I am the stereotype who writes with smoke slowly exiting a cup of coffee kept next to the laptop on the table - and the instrumental music in the background sounds like a farewell song, a seminal moment in the history of time or something.
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Who's afraid of viral videos on the drug menace in Punjab?

Who's afraid of viral videos on the drug menace in Punjab?

Hindustan Times — What's the price of heroin in Punjab? It's high, so high that it's solid proof that the drug menace is on the wane, if you believe those who rule the state. But the argument works only if you measure the price of drugs in money terms, and see the fight against drugs as a law-and-order, demand-and-supply, smuggler-and-buyer issue.
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The charm of being sad in Chandigarh

The charm of being sad in Chandigarh

Hindustan Times — People are unfair to sadness. If not the most important, it is the most honest of all feelings, matched only by the joyous curiosity of a child who is not yet old enough to understand grief's irresistible charm. And, on days of such clarity, I love the fact that I am in Chandigarh, a city that respects sadness.
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