🎤 Rap, GST and a very strange printer

🎵 Currently listening - for slow Saturdays

Quote of the day

Good morning.

Saturday has one job: move a little slower.

So I’ve got a song for that, a Bollywood quiz you might actually have to think about, a very clever short film, and just enough news to keep you caught up.

Coffee ready? Let’s go.

Six young Indian artists are turning heatwaves, disappearing green spaces and water shortages into rap and spoken-word music, using humour, personal stories and regional languages to talk about climate change without making it sound like a lecture.

Sometimes a song gets you to listen a little longer than a warning ever could.

Scroll to the end for the answer

The latest GST Council meeting focused less on tax rates and more on making the system easier to deal with.

Here’s what stood out:

Basically, fewer hoops for taxpayers and businesses to jump through. Read more →

A tired office worker discovers that something coming out of the printer can do something it definitely shouldn’t.

He tests it once. Then again.

I’ll stop there because the less you know about The Black Hole, the better.

📺 Always listening to Shin-chan. No cap.

💻 Immigration: A freeze involving the PERM process could delay one route to permanent residency for some Indian tech workers.

💧 Lifestyle: Some Gujaratis are spending thousands on IV drips before long garba nights, raising concerns over whether healthy people need them at all.

💊 Health: The government has capped trade margins on non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines at 30% of MRP, aimed at bringing prices down.

🎬 Cinema: Veteran actor Nana Patekar has died at 75 after suffering a cardiac arrest in Goa.

🎒 Education: A UNESCO report says 51% of India’s five-year-olds are already in Class 1 instead of preschool, raising concerns about children entering formal schooling too early.

🛢️ Energy: Indian refiners are cutting back on Russian crude as prices rise and Middle Eastern supplies become more attractive.

🏔️ Northeast: The Centre has approved ₹993.64 crore to upgrade a key NH-10 stretch in Sikkim, with tunnels, bridges and slope protection planned to make the road to Gangtok safer and more reliable.

⚽ Sports: Anirudh Thapa scored India’s first goal against a FIFA top-20 team since the rankings began, finding the net against Uruguay despite India’s 1-6 defeat.