Ritwika Patgiri
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Econ PhD Scholar | South Asian University | Alumna of SRCC and Jamia | Econ, Fem Econ, Federer, and Austen | Working on Rural Transformation and Nonfarm Economy
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I wrote about a topic close to my heart - Fieldwork as a Feminist Methodology in Economics for
@CriticalDev
NEW POST:
@RitwikaPatgiri
brings together feminist and decolonial critiques of economic methodology to argue for fieldwork as a feminist method.
"It is only through probing and better framing of questions can one truly identify women’s work."
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"One of my younger colleagues at the IMF found it hard to get a good job in academia, despite holding a PhD from MIT’s prestigious economics department, probably because her work showed that trade liberalization had slowed the rate of poverty reduction in
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How it all started:
"A research university that primarily awards master's degrees and PhDs, JNU saw the number of seats offered to students wishing to enroll in a master's or a doctoral program plummet by 84%, from 1234 to 194 in one year. Furthermore, admissions committees
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From
@shilpi_phukan
's fb.
If you are still expressing shock at what happened in IP College, you are really living under a rock. Just check out the profiles of the people who have been recruited. We had no chance. This was never about merit anyway.
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A phone of her own - gender digital divide in rural India
"Of the surveyed youth, 94.7% of males and 89.8% of females could use them. Of the males who knew how to use smartphones, 43.7% owned such a device, while only 19.8% of the females owned one."
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Seeing all the hullabaloo over a film on the Ramayana, I can't help but think about Mahasweta Devi's After Kurukshetra and what a good adaptation of epics can be like. Forget the heroes of the war, what about those who were neglected and destroyed by it?
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Amartya Sen starting his books with Shakespeare and Dickens analogies is something all economists should do, I think 😀
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"The lack of fieldwork tradition in the social sciences (excluding social anthropology and sociology) has had adverse results on their growth and development. It has alienated them from grassroots reality and led to fanciful assumptions about the behaviour of ordinary people.
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Indian universities and their trees - JNU, HCU, and Visva Bharati ❤️
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facing charges of plagiarism. In particular, several former ABVP student activists from JNU have been appointed as assistant professors even after being disqualified by the committee in charge of shortlisting applicants."
- Christophe Jaffrelot, "Modi's India"
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"In India, politicians, journalists, and scholars are increasingly using decolonial frameworks to legitimize far-right Hindutva ideologies. To take just one example, in his 2021 book India, That Is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution,
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Eduardo Galeano was only 30 when he wrote Open Veins of Latin America which he completed in only 3 months, in the last 90 nights of 1970, while he worked during the day in the university, editing books and magazines. One of the finest books I've read. Loved every bit of it.
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Photos don't do justice to the beauty of rural Assam
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"It's now unimaginable that a player would, as Brazil’s midfielder Sócrates did in 1984, justify their move to an Italian club by saying that doing so would provide them with an opportunity to read Antonio Gramsci in the original."
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Sister's a superhero. Even after everything, she's the one consoling me. Still promptly replying to all her emails. Still doing all the
@SociologyDoing
work with as much passion as ever.
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rural India. While theoretical papers showing that freer trade could have such adverse effects were acceptable, studies that demonstrated the phenomenon empirically were met with skepticism."
Sums up so many things.
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were made up solely of experts appointed by the JNU VC, flouting university statutes and guidelines followed by the UGC, which stipulate that academics should be involved. This made it possible to hire teachers from Hindu nationalist circles with few qualifications, and some
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Sharing all things red today - red from JNU, red from Meghalaya, and red from Dublin!
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"In a decade increasingly poisoned by Hindu radicalism, Karnad’s artistic mandate would change — but it relied as much as ever on his late friend’s (A.K. Ramanujan) ideas."
What a wonderful tale of friendship - loved reading this.
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"These texts (commercial literary texts) might seem to mark the end of literature as dissent; they do not take political positions as much as write mundane stories of sadness, freedom, and desire.
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Don't you just love it when you are casually reading a paper on time use survey and it begins with an Amrita Pritam poem?
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Let's talk about spring in the Assamese countryside ❤️
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"The EWS reservation is presented as being based on economic criteria and not identity. But in reality, it is very much a caste-based quota, specifically targeting groups that do not suffer any discrimination and, in fact, rank the highest on the social scale of ritual purity.
Affirmative action policies in the US and India began with the intention of addressing historical discrimination and promoting social justice. But this guiding principle has dimmed considerably, writes
@_ADeshpande
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"There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom",
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire died on this day in 1997.
“To alienate people from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”
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Kolkata hate is so weird, I'll never understand how one can dislike this pretty city?!
Kolkata is probably the only tier-1 city where you can eat three times meal in just 100 Rs.
Breakfast:- 4 puris (16 Rs. + Sabzi free)
Lunch:- 10 Rs. rice + 45 Rs. Bhuna Gosht
Dinner:- 3 Rotis (9 Rs.) + Bhindi-Aloo Sabzi (20 Rs.)
These are the real rates in my locality🙃
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It was a short trip but Kolkata will always be special ❤️
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Tea plantations getting shut down, tea workers not getting even the minimum wage, and tea growers facing price stagnation - if enough alternative rural non-farm jobs are not created, how are these workers even supposed to survive?
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"On average, Indian women spend over 44 hours a week on unpaid domestic work and caregiving activities. In comparison, men spend just over five hours a week on these activities."
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"India isn't Islamophobic."
Just one instance (from Jaffrelot's Modi's India):
"IndiaSpend estimates that in 2017, there were 34 bovine-related incidents, compared to 25 in 2016, 13 in 2015, 3 in 2014, 1 in 2013, and 1 in 2012. 24 out of the 28 yearly victims during the
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Salman Rushdie writing about the benami transactions and the Aadhaar loopholes is my favourite kind of writing
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang is just one of those books which will always be relevant
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Christmas celebrations at a Garo village near Chandrapur today. Everything was sooooo pretty :)
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"Indian women spend as much as ten times more time on (domestic chores) than men, one of the highest gaps globally. Moreover, with nearly universal marriage and a strong preference for sons, young women enter marriage and motherhood sooner than in
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This year I rediscovered the joy of reading short stories so I'm going to list down my favourite ones of 2023:
1. Kavach - Urmila Pawar
2. Rudali - Mahasweta Devi
3. Pura Gaon'r Pahila Bohag - Syed Abdul Malik (Assamese)
4. Udang Bakas - Indira Goswami (Assamese)
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"For anyone really interested in studying the history of development, it should be clear that Rostow advocated mass killing to promote American-style capitalism. However, the way that universities have taught and disseminated his work has often concealed
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I keep thinking about this story that a friend told me about Satyajit Ray. In 1964, PBS, a non-profit govt-funded tv programming distributor in the US, requested Ray to make an English-language film in a Bengali setting. Ray instead went on to make his masterpiece "Two", an anti-
35 yrs ago On 2nd Feb, 1989 the then French President flew down all the way to Calcutta to honour Ace film maker Satyajit Ray with France highest civilian award - Legion d'Honneur.
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Turns out that NYT has admitted that the Hamas rape story was fabricated. Can't help but think about the ramifications of such fabricated stories. One such instance from India (from Jaffrelot's Modi's India):
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Marxist accounts of women’s oppression often overlook Engels.
"... a distinctive feature of Engels’s analysis was that gender oppression is marked by class. For low-paid women workers, the double burden of paid and unpaid work bears down heavily."
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"Conflict and violence triggered 69,000 displacements in South Asia in 2023, with Manipur violence accounting for 67,000."
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Old Delhi during Ramadan (photo by
@iamssk_16
), Old Hyderabad during Ramadan (photo by me) ❤️
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Virginia Woolf writing about men:
"And he wondered what she was reading, and exaggerated her ignorance, her simplicity, for he liked to think that she was not clever, not book-learned at all. He wondered if she understood what she was reading. Probably not, he thought.
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Guwahati Book Fair haul without going to the book fair cause
@Rituparna37
is the best sister ever and got me all the books I wanted <3
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Fishermen, their boats, the Brahmaputra, and the afternoon sky.
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Our view today - my pollen allergy is getting worse but Dilli in spring is always love 💕
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So, Jhumpa Lahiri wrote her third novel in Italian and then translated it to English. "Whereabouts" is such a difficult read. "Solitude - it's become my trade," Lahiri writes. Too real, too painful.
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Feel like this is as good a time as any to talk about this:
"Kali for Women published some pathbreaking books mostly in English but also took on radical publishing in vernacular such as the Hindi reference book Shareer ki Jankari (‘About the Body’).
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"The world's fastest growing language is emoji, originated in the 1980s in Japan. Women are it's heaviest users - 78% of women versus 60% of men. And yet, until 2016, the world of emojis was curiously male."
Enjoying reading this gem - how data bias has kept women invisible.
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Today marks 88 years since the first Assamese movie "Joymoti" was released. But the price paid by Aideu Handique, the first ever Assamese actress, was different from what one would expect.
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Loved reading this book on feminization of agriculture and its implications in Bengal. Here's my review for
@SociologyDoing
:
Becoming a Farmer Women in Rural West Bengal, India by Raktima Mukhopadhyay, Itishree Pattnaik and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (2023): A Review by Ritwika Patgiri
@RitwikaPatgiri
@OrientBlackSwan
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This has resulted in woeful ignorance about the complex interaction of economic, political and social forces at local levels." - M.N. Srinivas
Reading Surinder Singh Jodhka's Village Society to gain the motivation I needed as I contemplate going for my own fieldwork. :)
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Two things I love - Roger Federer and Economics. I have honestly seen everything! 😅
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What has been the role of non-governmental organisations in involving women in the political and development process in rural Bangladesh? My review of Nayma Qayum's book Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh.
New Book Review: Ritwika Patgiri reviews Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh by Nayma Qayum
@RutgersUPress
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Day 5 of continuous rain in Lower Assam. Rice fields now looking like a lake.
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Census of India: Gone with the Wind
"In a country that had become a nation by bringing together several hundred states, and that had one of the largest populations in the world, such an ‘objective’ reference data was essential. In line with the
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Economists starting their papers and chapters with Virginia Woolf quotes? I can live with that 😀
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Trishna (2011) is a loose reworking of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Till the very end, I kept wondering if Riz Ahmed's character was supposed to be Alec d'Urberville or Angel Clare. And then I realised how a relationship with a so-called progressive person who
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My review of Giandomenica Becchio's impressive book 'A History of Feminist and Gender Economics' for
@CriticalDev
. Special thanks to
@ingridharvold
for all her suggestions.
Do give a read.
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"There are around 1 m vacancies in central govt alone, and probably several millions more in all state govts taken together. Filling these vacancies would not just create more jobs; they would also improve the quantity and quality of public services..."
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"There is no universal experience of womanhood, women do not form a homogeneous class with common interests that can organize to overthrow patriarchy..."
Thinking about one of my favourite Julie Matthaei essays since yesterday.
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Walking the streets of Old Delhi at 11 pm cause otherwise it's unlivable because of the heat. But yeah, Red Fort glowing ❤️ (photo by
@AbhiK2111
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"NCRB reveals that on average, 86 women were raped every day in India, while 49 cases of crimes against women were lodged every single hour. The no. of crimes against women per hundred thousand population ↑ from 56.3 in 2014 to 66.4 in 2022." Chilling.
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This is why we need the National Census to happen. One shouldn't just lie and get away with it.
Despite the country having a minority population of over 20 percent, with 18 percent being Muslims who are almost entirely Congress voters, the party has only received 23 percent of the vote.
— Prashant Kishor
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The story of India's declining savings (brought about by reduction in net financial savings), reduction in consumption expenditure, and increasing financial fragility.
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.
@niyoror_xubaax
spent 4 hours cooking this chicken dak bungalow. 😭 But it was worth it I guess? 😀
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The four best books I've read this year:
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Just putting it out here:
1. The Consumption Expenditure Survey of 2017-18 was shelved as it was deemed "methodologically flawed." It is to be noted that the very survey indicated a decline in aggregate consumption - an anomaly in a "growing" economy.
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"Educated unemployment worsened sharply. For graduates, the unemployment rate rose from 19.2% to 35.8%; and for post graduates from 21.3% 36.2%.
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Mrinal Sen's Ek Din Pratidin was released in 1979, showing how female mobility in urban areas is constrained by social norms. It's the year 2023 - the film is still so relatable. The overall participation of urban women in the labour market remains low at 24% vs 90% for men.
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Young and Conservative
"Youngsters are only slightly less likely than older people to approve of Modi's government: fully 44% of the youngest respondents (born after 1996) identified with the BJP, compared with 48% of those born after 1980 and 52% of those born before 1980."
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The Lonely Tree near Chandrapur, one of my favourite places in Guwahati.
@niyoror_xubaax
, come soon, need to go again!!!
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"In 2022, the share of the top 1% in income in India was nearly 50% higher than that of China. The Chinese economy has been maintaining a higher growth rate over the years with a moderate growth in economic inequality while India's growth has been moderate with extreme growth in
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"We are not born with our preferences; rather, they are conditioned by our social experiences. What if we have preferences not just about Pepsi vs. Coke but about what kind of people we want to be..."
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Sister and friends constantly telling me these days that I don't appreciate/like Assamese food enough so here's me sharing a photo of our (yummy) Assamese thali today :)
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Reading Janice Pariat's Everything The Light Touches and this description of Guwahati is like the most perfect thing ever - "mosquitoes have multiplied". Always!
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I want to write about Virginia Woolf the way she writes about Dostoevsky in The Russian Point of View:
"The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in.
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It's the 1st of May today. University campuses are filled with student protests. Just another perfect time to read my favourite F. Scott Fitzgerald short story - May Day!
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Important thread - want to add that India has been witnessing a declining fertility rate and "declining fertility in India encompasses all religious groups including Muslims. A study observed that in districts where Hindu fertility was high, Muslim
DEBUNKING POPULAR LIES & LOGICAL FALLACIES ON
'High Muslim Birthrates' & 'Wealth Redistribution'
1) Muslims produce more children: You can easily observe how your parents have more siblings than you & your grandparents had even more siblings. Why has birthrate in your family
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Just another Uruka morning - it isn't very cold in Guwahati but its not a January morning without my mom starting a bonfire, me sitting next to her with my book while she reads her newspaper, and all we talk about is the Australian Open. It's almost a ritual now. 😀
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There is something about Shulamith Firestone writing about love, "I submit that love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon - it becomes complicated, corrupted, or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
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"... (in India) 21 million poor women are “missing from the electoral roles”, 90 per cent of parliamentarians are millionaires, and 43 per cent face criminal charges. If that’s public knowledge, then one shudders to think what’s hidden."
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"Look, unless you're writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn't yourself can help you, that someone being the author." Mohsin Hamid always spilling facts.
P.S. Hate all self-help books to the core.
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"The state is resorting to the use of drones to drop bombs in Adivasi areas. This aggression illustrates how the Indian state is endangering its indigenous people. The question remains: Why?"
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