Akshobh Giridharadas

Grateful for this opportunity to cover #Midterms26 for @NDTV and @NDTVWorld . From now till November 3rd, stay tuned for continuous coverage.

Pleasure speaking with @neeratanden, President and CEO for @amprog for @ndtv and @NDTVWorld ahead of the #Midterms2026. Neera is a veteran policy adviser having serve in the Biden administration, Obama administration and has worked with Hilary Clinton, in several capacities right from her time as First Lady in the 1990s, and then was her legislative director, when she was Senator and served as her policy director for her first presidential campaign in 2008. Catch the full interview on @NDTV and @NDTVWorld

My analysis of the #TexasSenateRace ahead of the #Midterms26 for @ndtv and @NDTVWorld. I highlighted how Texas has long been a blue-chip state for Republicans. Liberal cities such as Houston and Austin, I quip, can be described as blueberries in tomato soup, pockets of blue in an otherwise deeply red political landscape. This Senate contest pits Republican Ken Paxton against Democrat James Talarico. Paxton defeated veteran Senator John Cornyn in the Republican runoff. Cornyn is a familiar figure in US-India relations, having co-founded the Senate India Caucus with Hillary Clinton and subsequently co-chaired it with Mark Warner. For Democrats, the historical hurdle is considerable. The last Democrat elected to the US Senate from Texas was Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, the same year he was Michael Dukakis’s vice-presidential running mate and they lost to a popular Texan politician, George H.W. Bush (41). Fun fact: 1988 was a year before Talarico was born. That's a whole Talarico lifetime the last time a Democratic Senator won from the Lone Star state. But Talarico is hoping to be the lone star. @samikshaa3, @VishalV054

Thank you so much, @rahulkanwal and the fantastic team at @ndtv and @NDTVWorld.

Thank you @ShivAroor, glad to join the tribe!

Fantastic story! As an Arsenal fan, I can get behind Harry Kane.

Another angle to the #Midterms26, how much of a role, intentionally and unintentionally, will AI play? Beyond AI slop and AI-driven ads, this was reported in the @guardian. "Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology". theguardian.com/technology/2…

I spent seven years in the newsroom in Singapore and spent seven years across Boston and Washington, D.C. away from the newsroom. A different sort of 7 and 7. Excited to be back as I make my debut for @ndtv and @NDTVWorld as the consulting editor, U.S. desk. Thank you to all those who made this possible. My first priority is covering the #Midterms2026. I rely on your tips, insights for analysis and timely reporting.

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