Kalyan Raman کلیان راماں
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Writer and Literary Translator. Madras/Chennai. Winner of Sahitya Akademi's Translation Prize 2022
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A list of my published translations is available here:
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The amazing thing is that, through 12 years of being CM and 10 years as PM, the man hasn't grown at all as a human being. It is truly unusual.
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How many of you know that SBI's Employees Federation has demanded the immediate resignation of Chairman, SBI for having colluded with this criminal govt in its attempt to hoodwink the people?
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The Gayatri Spivak episode in JNU illustrates an important but rarely discussed facet of our milieu: with a few honourable exceptions, the entire left-liberal vanguard of upper caste intellectuals is woefully superficial and exclusionary. They are ruthless in their gatekeeping.
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Modi's third cabinet looks like The Revenge of the Incompetent.
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Haha. Your job is to put your hand out and check whether it's fucking raining. So, why don't you find out for yourself if they are from the BJP or not? Photographic evidence is all over the place. So, why act disingenuous? Does it to do you any credit to try and fool the public?
Three men arrested in IIT-BHU gangrape case, SP & Congress allege they are BJP workers
Amogh Rohmetra
@RohmetraA
reports for ThePrint
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ECI can rig votes in favour of BJP only by fudging the Form 17c's Part 1 (number of votes polled at every AC). This can be handled by parties putting all the Form 17Cs in respect of their candidates on their website or on a common INDIA alliance website. Any independent agency
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There are no protests "around" the CAA. There are protests opposing it, and there is violence against the protestors. Your phrasing amounts to plain distortion of this truth.
Terrible news coming in from Delhi as protests around the CAA turn violent. One cop has been killed. Not what we want to project when the US President is here
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this happened in 2017. Mr.
@paranjoygt
had to resign as editor of
@epw_in
for publishing two articles on the Adani Group:
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I’ve been following the
#BharatJodoYatra
every day on YT. It’s a truly valiant and serious effort mounted by
@INCIndia
in defence of the Constitution and the working poor. It deserves the support of everyone who believes in a democratic future for India.
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I think it's time we held multi-city mass rallies in solidarity with the locked down Kashmiris. Enough with the hand wringing and daily lament. We need to do this here, across India.
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Kerala and Tamilnadu - salt of the earth, and the future of a secular India :)
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'There's an old saying that the regime is deaf.'
'It's deaf only when we talk about our problems. When we talk about the regime, its ears are quite sharp.'
Perumal Murugan,
in 'Poonachi: The Story of a Black Goat'
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Kanhaiya Kumar's heartfelt but intellectually incisive exposition on patriotism to a sanghi in Mangalore who asks him to say, 'Jai Shriram':
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‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ and the cinematic exploration of Dalit subjectivities - my op-ed article in
@IndianExpress
on Pa. Ranjith's brilliant film
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Those who deny that EVR advocated genocide of Brahmins, if only in a blustering way, & spoke in vile fashion about their women, must have had their fill of evidence by now, drawn from his collected writings & speeches, that the man did exactly that, over & over again. Just STFU!
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Amusing to see all the 'high-minded' pro-Modi supporters on here occupying themselves with poetry, philosophy, economics, fintech, cryptocurrency and whatnot :)
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Please recall that
@bloomsbury
was not threatened with violence or any other kind of punitive action, legal or otherwise. There was an outpouring of criticism, and they responded to it by pulling the book. Enemies of free speech act quite differently, as we all know.
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'The Story of A Goat', my translation of Perumal Murugan's novel, is in the long list for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
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Those who voted for Modi are responsible for these crimes, which were completely predictable.
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I am appalled at how everyone is talking around and over the central tragedy of the event: trampling on the dignity and rights of 120mn Indian Muslims
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You had all the opportunity to prosecute them! If you didn't, or couldn't, shut the fuck up.
DMK and Congress want to come to power to loot people; DMK biggest beneficiary of 2G scam, says PM Modi in Tamil Nadu
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I studied in Tamil medium up to Class IX. Some of my friends continued with Tamil up to SSLC. English can be picked up quite easily. The real obstacle is the socio-cultural snobbery deployed by those who 'own' English.
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Excellent. There will be 'pundits' who think that it's a bad move, but I congratulate INC for seeing the event for what it actually is, for refusing to be cowed down by religious mobilzation. Now the political fight to protect the rights of all Indians is on, w/o any compromise
Congress president & LoP Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury decline the invitation "to what is clearly an RSS/BJP event": Jairam Ramesh, General Secretary
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The Music Academy's response to Ranjani and Gayatri:
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What we need is a powerful and coherent narrative on Modi as a failure on all fronts, and a calamity that looms on our future. Forget what he does (or says, mostly) from day to day, let's talk about what he has done and failed at for ten years.
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The fact is: S*nje*v S*ny*l, Sh*m*ika R*vi and V*kr*m S*mp*th come off as a lot more entitled and privileged than anyone in the so-called Khan Market gang, No coincidence that all of them have had plagiarism issues
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I am appalled at Shashi Tharoor's basic lack of respect for the religious faith of another. If you can't accept and accommodate it without prejudice, you can hardly be a secularist.
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Here is the reply I received from Prof Hart:
Ravi was not my student and as far as I know did not get a degree from our department (South and Southeast Asian Studies). He claims to have a degree in comp lit, which of course I can’t check.
@realitycheckind
@othisaivu
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Not voting Modi out in 2024 is the biggest crime the people of India have committed against themselves and future generations of Indians.
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You've become a judge of the Supreme Court, and even CJI. What do you need at this stage in your life that you are ready to trample on all principles of decency and fairness, over and over again, just to please this govt? - Yours, Angry & Despindent Citizen
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If it weren't for people like Punya Prasun Bajpai, Abhisar Sharma, Akash Banerjee, Ravish Kumar, Ashutosh, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, et al speaking the truth on YouTube every single day, it would've been hard to preserve one's sanity from one horror-filled day to another. Thank you!
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Permission or no, planning to be there in Valluvar Kottam at 3pm. We should defy this worthless govt. Be there
#CAAProtest
#Chennai
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It's exactly what Dr. Parkala said last week. If he is re-elected, he will say this from the Red Fort, which could have serious consequences.
The vilest human being ever.Inciting religious strife among his own countrymen.
@ECISVEEP
has no issues as he is kept there for that purpose.This bugger talks more about Congress Manifesto more than his own. Shouldn't this hate speech be condemned by the SC & hold ECI accountable
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Vrinda Grover: 'A citizen has a right to "selective' outrage, to speak about whichever issue that concerns them without ANY obligation to speak about everything. They are not in charge of the country; the govt is.' How difficult is this to understand?
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I just renewed my subscription to
@thecaravanindia
for all the right reasons. Please consider supporting the vitally important work they o.
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Here is a culturally rooted, therefore meaningful and substantial, tribute to Girish Karnad by
@sugataraju
, who is obviously on a roll:
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How is asking for a JPC automatically a waste of time? If you ask such a partisan, unfair question, what do you expect? Someone needs to tell journalists that giving a free pass to the BJP/govt on the one hand & lecturing the opposition on the other is no longer acceptable.
Good on the journalist to stand her ground when accused by Rahul Gandhi of asking a “BJP-wali line” question, and taunted by him to get a T-shirt with the BJP symbol. Politicians of all parties should learn to treat journalists with more respect.
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Who is AS, you ask? At one point in the chats, Arnab Goswami refers to NM & AS. Could it be more plain?
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Angry, eloquent response from Cornel West.
"It is a lynching at the highest level. No one can deny that," Dr.
@CornelWest
tells
@andersoncooper
of the death of George Floyd. "I thank God that we have people in the streets."
"Could you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people were indifferent?" he asks.
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People who want to understand the reality of caste in everyday life should read this book, edited by Perumal Murugan (tr: CS Lakshmi aka Ambai). It will liberate you from ill-digested second-hand rhetoric. That's the hope, anyway.
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Happy to announce that 'Breaking Free', my
#translation
of a Tamil novel by Vaasanthi, will be published next month by
@HarperCollinsIN
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Here is a hilarious exchange of letters between the late Vijay Nambisan and a certain Delhi-based magazine relating to payments due to him as freelancer:
As a new freelancer, I’m lucky most places I write for are professional. But I’ve seen friends chase payments for MONTHS. Editors ghosting. Media houses stealing pitches. Sitting on stories till topicality is lost.
Freelancers, tell me your worst stories. Let’s make some noise.
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Thank you, Kanishka, for your 'citation' and support!
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@devarsighosh
I know you must have seen it, but this is an opportunity to remember the film. Have you seen Shine a Light? The man's concert films are so fantastic. They involve a phenomenal amount of detailing.
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As important as it is to criticise the misdeeds of Sanghi govts at the Centre and in the States, it is even more important to expose the RSS as a bloodthirsty, divisive and communal organisation which is a menace to our society and republic. This normalising of RSS should cease.
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I am wondering whether the Economics Department faculty in Asoka U might not have also set out how they were going to review the paper for rigour and validity through a process that preserves their intellectual freedom. After all, freedom comes with responsibility, right?
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What we need in this country is a subaltern intellectual/educational movement with their own universities, infrastructure and resources, under their own control, much like the one championed by, um, W.E.B. Du Bois.
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It turns out that Dr. J Jeyaranjan, current Vice Chair of State Development Policy Council in TN, has contributed a paper called 'Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamilnadu, India' for a book published by University of Central London in 2019.
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Unpopular opinion: Reservation is public policy before it's anything else. Like all policy, it must be compatible with well-defined goals, periodic evaluation and revision. Reservation is not a religion, cult, or a litmus test. People who think they are defending reservation
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Cribbed from another tweet. This is quite the collection on our tragic story as a country.
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Imagine a day when we will bring these fascists to trial for their crimes. Just imagine. It's the first step towards making it real.
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What have WE done to create a climate where Muslims cannot be treated like this, where it won't be tolerated on the ground? Curiously, we have limited ourselves to tut-tutting and handwringing. Clearly, this won't do.
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This govt is so predictable in in its web of corruption.
How do you think CJI Ranjan Gogoi will be rewarded post retirement? The thought is never far away these days.
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I believe that the basic indicator of discrimination should not be about the extent of emigration, which can happen for a host of related and unrelated reasons, but about how the Bs who live here are treatedw ,hat opportunities are open (or closed) to them, and how they are
Just like Kashmiri pundits had to go away from their own land because of terrorists, tamil brahmins were made to go away too by these Dravidianist hooligans
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Good work,
@AbhishekSay
and
@AltNews
. And shame on you, Godi media.
Thread 🧵
Here is how India's mainstream media and their star anchors
@ShivAroor
@chitraaum
@sudhirchaudhary
@RajatSharmaLive
spread false information on the national TV and run propaganda of the ruling party BJP. (1/n)
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This conversation between
@fayedsouza
and
@Devinder_Sharma
, a respected policy researcher and analyst, on
#FarmersProtest
and why negotiations are failing , is GOLD:
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How many of you have given up on The H*ndu after they went behind a paywall? I have, for now.
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The
@RSSorg
is a fascist organisation which has degraded Indian society and politics beyond belief. It has enabled a lying, incompetent man to capture power. It is against bor just minorities but most Hindus as well - adivasis depressed castes & women
Stand with
@FriedrichPieter
Hindu American Foundation is attacking me for speaking against the
#RSS
. Are you a Hindu, from America or elsewhere? I need your support. Please raise your voice with me against the RSS and it’s fascist agenda.
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So, Rahul Gandhi bought Perimal Murugan's The Goat Thief, translated by yours truly. Good to know.
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How could SBI identify bonds not redeemed before expiry date and transfer the money to PMNRF without matching the two lists? There must have been an audit cycle after each issue-and-redemption period. Why are they lying?
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Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the takeaway is clear: only ground-level organizing and mobilization by ALL of us will get us out of this hole. We should start now.
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Of the many stellar nonfiction books published by
@WestlandBooks
, one of my favourites is 'The Anatomy of Hate' by
@RevatiLaul
, a gut-wremcing investigation into the trajectories of 3 hate-mongers in Gujarat. Highly recommended.
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Vanniyars are NOT a dominant caste commuity. Formerly called Pallis, they were footsoldiers in the Pallava army. After the fall of the Pallavas, they became landless agricultural labourers for the Vellalas under the Chola empire, with predictable consequences.
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@surajyengde
@subbu_q
FWIW, all the students of physics around me and I had heard of Dr. Meghnad Saha, cyclotron and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Calcutta (established in 1949, affiliated to DAE) from the very beginning. Dr. Saha was held in the highest regard by the scientific community.
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When the dust settles on this period in India's history, Mohammed Zubair and Ravi Nair will be acknowledged as heroes who fought the good fight for all of us.
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As the days roll on, MoSha will unleash many bizarre initiatives that will be sold by the cult worshippers as masterstrokes and whatnot. What we need to do is to keep our eye on the ball and achieve the only thing that matters: get rid of them, now and forever.
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The identification of Bajrang Dal, a violent communal organisation, with Bajrang Bali, deity beloved of Hindus, for political ends should be strongly condemned. It's a shame that Modi is resorting to such tactics. I hope INC wins and bans the anti-social outfit.
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My heart goes out to the millions of Indian children who are destined to be born and raised amidst this regessive, intellectually worthless, Sanghi shitstorm. For. No. Fault. Of. Theirs.
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The feeling that no matter how poor one's family might be, one can still get the education one wants is very precious, and only those born poor can know it. A society that wantonly kills that feeling of hope and possibility in its poor children has no reason or right to exist.
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Amazing.
Found this interview of Indira Gandhi from 1969 on French TV. Her French is just perfect. Even includes a quote by Jean Racine. Very impressive.
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Happy to announce that it exists :) Will be in the bookshops trop vite.
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Bluetick erasure: the biggest instance of mass disenfranchisement of the elite since the French Revolution.
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This guy, who is reviewing the sentence and deciding on remission (which is contingent on the nature of the crime) says he doesn't know if they even committed the crime - even after they've been convicted and sentenced by a court! Sufficient grounds for disqualifying the panel?
“They are Brahmins,Men of Good Sanskaar. Their conduct in jail was good": BJP MLA
#CKRaulji
who was on the panel that recommended release of 11 convicts who gang-raped
#BilkisBano
& killed her child.
@ashish_ramola
from the ground.
Full interview here:
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Do we really need national parties? Our democracy and the quality of our governance will be far better under a coalition of regional parties. There won't be any entities capable of promoting (and profiting from) pathologies like jingoism, Hindutva and Iflamophobia. Think about it
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In Bihar, Brahmins, Rajputs, Bhumihars and Kayasths are counted as Savarnas, a marker of social dominance
In TN, the equivalent would be Brahmins, Vellalars (Mudaliars, Pillais et al), Nagarathars, Naickers, Vellala Gounders and Reddiars. This will knock the bottom out of
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The second: 'Modi Government's Rs 500-Crore Bonanza to the Adani Group'
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The first of the two articles he was asked to take down: 'Did the Adani Group Evade Rs 1,000 Crore in Taxes?'
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It's vulgar and cringe-inducing ti refer to our soldiers constantly as bravehearts or martyrs. 'Soldiers' says everything about them that needs to be said. There is no need for a distasteful emotional overlay in public discourse. It just degrades language and perception.
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can collate this data as they wish. This must be done urgently. Inaction will be asking for trouble. Wake up and do this, please, for all our sakes and for the sake of democracy
@Jairam_Ramesh
@MahuaMoitra
@yadavakhilesh
@yadavtejashwi
@OfficeofUT
@mkstalin
@SitaramYechury
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Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
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Just finished reading
@suchitrav
's 'Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India'. It's an outstanding work, weaving histories, landscapes and human trauma into a seamless whole that is destined to inhabit our consciousness for a long time.
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17 of the 30 stories in 'The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told' are by Brahmin authors. At least 22 of the stories are translated by Brahmins. I've never seen an anthology like this in Tamil. Speechless at the lack of diversity.
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Thrilled to announce that my first book-length translation of poetry will be publshed next year, thanks to agent extraordinaire,
@kan_writersside
of Writers' Side
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I can never forget that this fraud had come to the accident site in Balasore shouting Vande Mataram. He is well and truly beneath contempt.
I have a feeling that this time, Ashwini Vaishnaw will create drama by resigning from his position, which will be followed by further drama from the Prime Actor who will reject his resignation!
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organisation in the state seems to be willing to cover. He has written a blogpost on the subject with hair-raising screenshots of excerpts from Dr. Jeyaranjan's paper. It's a must-read:
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My first book in 2024, this wonderful 'women's history of India through the lens of sport' by
@sohinichat
. Fresh, original and thoughtful on every page. A triumph!
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@vanish_forever
In fact, many women who are paid-up members of elite art/culture/intellectual circles, including 'progressive', left-liberal ones, make light of harassment by their friends & associates. It's like they are committed to their own supremacy (and privilege) as a collective
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The series 'Publishing and the Pandemic' hosted by
@scroll_in
is an outstanding example of what an open-minded editor/curator with a nose for the good stuff and the diligence to source it can achieve in any branch of journalism. Unfortunately, we have very few of that rare kind.
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What does it say about
@Twitter
that it suspends
@YayathiPuru
's account on the very next day after his op-ed article on a new legislation appears in one of the country's important newspapers?
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It's a pity that Indians are fed on political rhetoric 24/7 rather than good social science, marked by breadth of coverage and intellectual rigour. So for most people, the choice is not made out of understanding but from their emotional response to some rhetoric or the other.
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About time some lawyer kindly affirmed the basic illegality of Ajay Bisht's order demanding compensation from protestors for damage to public property and costs to the police. Please?
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I worked in a premier public funded research organisation where most top scientists were not fluent in English. They were not less bright and creative for that reason. Normally, the hegemonic positioning of English wipes everybody out. Ours was a more enlightened environment.
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