Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:38am on 05 Feb 2026,Thursday India
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor strongly criticized The Washington Post for laying off his son Ishaan Tharoor, calling the decision “bizarre” and a “perverse act of self-immolation,” given his widely read WorldView column with over 500,000 subscribers. Ishaan, a senior international affairs columnist who launched the newsletter in 2017, confirmed his layoff on X, sharing that he was “heartbroken” for his newsroom colleagues as part of sweeping cuts that affected more than 300 journalists — about one-third of the paper’s staff — amid organisational restructuring and closure of key departments. (PC: PTI)
