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I have a better cover picture for y'all
TIME's new cover: Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the test of American leadership
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East India Company:
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freest country in the world is starving 18 year Olds because they don't like dead children
People are passing food and water through the gates to the Columbia University Gaza Encampment protesters.
Columbia has completely shut down access to campus to try to starve the encampment.
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Looking at replies and QTs affirming my belief that Indian society is possibly the most rotten in this world. truly vile and disgusting
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when you look at this malnourished boy remember that there are sarkari economists who have spent a lifetime opposing PDS, Mid Day Meals, NREGA, Anganwadis and other welfare measures aimed at tackling malnutrition, hunger, extreme poverty
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high time economists who harp on endlessly about technocratic solutions are held accountable
#WATCH
: A tribal man mortgages his wife's gold ornaments to buy a mobile phone and SIM card to get OTP-based verification for
#SubhadraYojana
. A video of the incident has surfaced online
#Odisha
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the biggest story for me this election is INDIA parties making massive gains in Dalit and rural constituencies while NDA has maintained urban and upper caste constituencies. tells you everything, really
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it will always be funny to me that SRK and Atlee made this movie and then danced in the Ambani wedding lmao
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Modi’s India plans its own democracy index, after global rankings downgrade
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okay and are you going to provide your riders with e-bikes or are you going to force them to buy from you like you do with the Zomato jacket?
our promise: 100% deliveries on electric vehicles by 2030 with
@ClimateGroup
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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lack of ventilation in extreme heat, standing 10 hours straight for just a 10k salary, no washroom breaks for hours, managers tracking idle times, workers getting their IDs blocked and more - the horrible working conditions at amazon india warehouses
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domestic abuse is a gem of a reply apparently
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since a lot of people are suddenly concerned about workers right, might I suggest paying domestic workers in your households more than the market wage?
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three years later and Lalita Devi still can't retrieve her Aadhaar to get access to her entitlements while researchers drunk on technocracy write papers after papers and make their careers out of harmful policy advice
Here is another woman (Lalita Devi of Dumbi, Jharkhand) who lost her Aadhaar card and was told that the number cannot be retrieved without it being linked to her mobile. Chicken and egg!
@ceo_uidai
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no rupi kaur slander ever anymore
I received an invite from the Biden administration for a Diwali event being held by the VP on nov 8. I decline any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children.
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A nice quiet weekend in Santiniketan with people I look up to 🌼
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after this 56 seat gain in dalit constituencies, I don't want to ever hear a liberal/leftist talk about dalits being footsoldiers of Hindutva
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being Bahujan doesn't give anyone a pass to be misogynist or violent towards women
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no shame at all
What is really behind a woman professional's success?
All work done with purpose, is worthy of dignity, what society might say is not worth dignifying. Everyone has the right to work with pride, and be respected for it.
CW: Req. adult supervision
#IWD2024
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I have complaints with Rathee like many here do, but I've always maintained that his centrist lukewarm progressive content acts as a good intro to politics for those just starting out like young adults who also happen to be his main audience. t
A MUST WATCH: A very well researched video based on available facts by
@dhruv_rathee
bursting the fake claims of the Propaganda movie 'The Kerala Story'. Do watch and share the full video available on YouTube.
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this is tokenism. discuss the merits of the movie all you want but let's not pretend here that this one frame excuses the movie for its clearly very urban upper class/caste gaze on village life with nothing to say on caste
manju mai being dalit and having ambedkar’s frame was very savarna feminist of her she should’ve been screaming jai bhim
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these are our socialist parties lol we're so cooked
What binds Samajvaad (socialism) to capitalism is a serious commitment to feudalism.
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I don't believe in God, but seeing all this makes me wish for the existence of divine justice
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I had a brahmin classmate with an iPhone who got in through EWS
200 EWS students got admissions in private universities paying more than Rs 1 crore fees.
Hey total gapla hai...
How can some one earning just Rs 66000/- per month afford Rs 1 crore fees?
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Just glanced youtube, Dhruv Rathee's videos are getting anywhere between 10-20 million views in general. that's insane reach for a liberal platform in India
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you can tell sanghis don't even have a single braincell when they post this while using the profile picture of a character who's a chef who loves cooking beef lol
UPDATE-Got that mf beaten by the whole hostel and even authority rusticated him🤣🤣
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our health structure depends heavily on ASHA workers, yet they're paid peanuts. they have to protest several times a year to get meagre hikes. it's shameful.
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decades of labor organizing and hard-won rights are being undone right in front of our eyes all in service of capital
Should Indians work longer for less pay? A proposal in the Economic Survey sparks debate via
@scroll_in
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not sure how i feel about a handbook on caste with more than half the authors being white or upper caste.
Co-edited with Jules Nudet, The Oxford Handbook of Caste has finally been published. Besides our ‘Introduction’ and 7 ‘Section Introductions’, the book has 42 chapters contributed by 43 authors from across the globe. Table of contents:
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apparently humanities is just making graphs on twitter lol
Engineers can do humanities better than humanities students can do humanities
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Coming from a very small town with a bahujan background, i always wonder where i'd be if i had the privilege of an upper class/caste delhi kid.
missed so many opportunities because of lack of information and social capital that i'm still playing catch-up all these years later
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you'll be shocked to find out who this mysterious culprit committing crimes against men is
@livetime_fe
Feeling unsafe and actually being unsafe are two different things. Most crimes happen against men. Men are 3/4 times more likely to end up murdered during that night.
So, your very first sentence is without any basis.
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upper caste privilege is that you can be THIS stupid and still have a good career as a columnist in leading dailies
A new lie is being spread by Dalit leaders whose careers are built on Dalit misery: that I want to see Dalits in filth and rags forever. Lies. The truth is I believe that a free market will uplift Dalits more than reservations.
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not to give fodder to Sanghis here but some clarifications are required here:
welfare state is not socialism. in fact, it was started to avoid socialism. India was never socialist in practice (read Dreze/Sen on it for more), only in name.
So many dodos crying about 1991 reforms, as if India gave up socialism post 1991. India continues to be socialist, its welfare schemes all come from socialism. The entire idea of a welfare state is a socialist concept.
How badly are 91 reforms taught to dodos in schools that
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I don't think even Hitler could conceive of something so insidious that America has
A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.
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hey
@pbmehta
, a serious question - have you ever read anything of substance about policymaking? Cause if you did, you wouldn't be writing things like "social justice does not require caste data" and embarassing yourself in a leading newspaper (1/2)
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wondering what kind of feminism or social justice it is to hire barely adult women domestic workers at your house and pay them poverty wages while whining about financial constraints (as a fairly privileged person). if you can't pay someone properly then do your own work, simple
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she is also doing a fundraiser for Kamala - south asians remain the most opportunistic shameless idiots as always
had to bring the solo show back to Chicago since you guys sold it out last time 🥰🫶🏽 also doing some Palestine fundraisers to raise money for families evacuating Gaza and American organizers fighting for Palestinian liberation
💌
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there's a reason why Gurukuls belong to the past - its because they only taught the upper castes. clowns.
You might be thinking Gurukula Systems belong to the past but there is a Gurukula in Bangalore that is challenging our Indian education system! 🧵👇🏽
@vidyakshetra
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one can imagine the extent of authoritarianism in India where even a centrist critic (one with considerable political connections) is harassed into resignation
A few days aga,
@AiyarYamini
wrote in The Economist about the shrinking space for independent civil society in India.
Today the
@CPR_India
board accepted her resignation as CEO.
Case in point.
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In other news, Rajasthan elected the youngest Dalit (and woman) MP and an independent Adivasi MP, both against incumbents, and farmer leader comrade Amraram. BJP's tally in the state also went down by 9-10 seats to 14/25.
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courage and clarity even a thousand Rahul Gandhis couldn't muster up
"Koi bhi keh deta hai Musalmano ko Nikal denge, Bhaga denge, Pakistan vej denge
Kiski himmat hai vej denge?
Kiski hasiyat hai vej denge?
We will not Tolerate this torture, inequality
-
@BhimArmyChief
🔥
@smitaprakash
inside: Galti ho gayi bulake, paw paw maaf nahi karenge. 🥴
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the funniest part about this tweet is "Top Economist Surjit Bhalla"
"BJP May Get 350 Seats On Its Own, 5 In Tamil Nadu": Top Economist Surjit Bhalla To NDTV
Watch the full interview here 👇
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our fertility rate is already lower than replacement rate. if it goes any lower, you're going to find it hard to recruit freshers for peanuts
Narayana Murthy Says Indians Have Not Paid "Enough Attention" To Population Control
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This entire Yashica Dutt episode keeps getting uglier by the day. The hate she's getting is not about asking for unfair credit or even the quality of her work. it's all about her not fitting their idea of a dalit woman and being a non-Buddhist outsider (cont)
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this video reaching 5 million views in a day will do a lot more good than most of us ranting on twitter would tbh.
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economists would have lined up to meet Hitler if it served their purpose lol
Was a great pleasure to meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri
@myogiadityanath
in Lucknow yesterday; present him with my recent book; and discuss ideas for state-level governance reforms that can accelerate both human development and economic growth in UP in the coming years.
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given all the horrible shit happening in the world and the country, I really can't understand why one would want an Indian Palantir - a company that's helping commit the said horrible shit and benefitting directly from it
Which Indian startup is building India’s Palantir and Anduril? Feel like there should be more B2G focused startups esp in data and defence?
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For today's
@the_hindu
,
@fizzasuhel
and I write about the trend of welfare expenditure on key schemes and notice an across the board decline since 2014.
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great way of justifying their poor living conditions 👏🏼
#Odisha
's Bonda tribe and its deep connection with Ramayana | When tribal women in
#Malkangiri
earned the wrath of Devi Sita who cursed them a lifetime of ignominy
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BJP not getting 400 is something I believe myself but difficult to see them losing in any case, but I hope I'm utterly wrong
Hinted at this earlier-- this is a historical election. BJP is getting wiped out. Forget 400 seats, they'll fall out of power. Remember you heard it here 1st!🙏🏽
Simple electoral math, reactions & possibilities-- listen:
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fully grown adult unable to take constructive criticism thinks only brahmins can write in English on twitter. I'm Bahujan, not brahmin.
@naropant
@mohiittverma
@MarxAfterDark
Bhai woh Brahman mard hai, unko Brahman aurat ko yeh sab kehna allowed hota hai. Unke purkho ki daen hai yeh, yeh aur iske purkhe dono kaafi bade socialist they, at least Brahmin men are no longer burning Brahmin women at stake.
#SmallMercies
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What a pathetic world we live in where a genocide could be live streamed for 8 months and still "good people" would still not even have the courage to take a stand against it cause it might harm their personal interests? everyone who's still silent is just a pathetic coward
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the utterly depraved shamelessness of this propaganda tho 🤮🤮
White people are truly the scourge of mankind
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@abbygov
yes. not just rural Indians but the scheduled castes too. INDIA parties gained a massive 56 seats in SC constituencies and won over 2/3rds of them overall
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this is what happens when you hire MBAs in suits trained to maximise "efficiency" and fixate on a cost-benefits analysis at the cost of social utility. consultants should just away from policy
(+) INCREASE/ (-) DECREASE in Government Schools during the Academic Year 2021-2022 compared to the Academic Year 2018-2019
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imagine doing research to push policies like this that hurt the most vulnerable the most and at the same time having an insane saviour complex about saving the world 💁🏻♂️
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got to meet Jean recently in Delhi, had a great time chatting as usual 🌸
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upper castes and their obsession with bondage labour lol
In 25 years, majority of Indian households won't be able to afford full time househelps.
In Tier I/metro city, I estimate their average pay around ₹15-20k.
At 6% inflation, it will become ₹65k-₹85k in 25 years.
Now is a good time to learn and do household chores ourselves.
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for the nth time y'all, boycotting the most genocidal mouthpiece of the empire isn't that difficult. the watermelon emojis on your profiles don't mean much if you can't stop playing Wordle or Connections or whatever. put your words into practice. do better, please
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If you ask me why I don't generally respect Economists is because they're all cowards. Subservient to power. Israel could drop a nuclear bomb in Gaza tomorrow and none of them would still have the integrity to speak up as it'd affect their career and precious funding
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Suraj is right, a real liberal wears Islamophobia on their sleeves unlike a pretend-liberal 💪🏼
some of these twice-born convert mussalamans and pretend-liberals wants us to critique hindus only, lmao 🤣
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Pushing technocratic solutions like biometric authentication to access welfare entitlements in a country whose infrastructure/administration is simply unable to execute it properly is a deeply harmful idea and I have no idea how people who love "evidence" refuse to see this
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its always funny to see academics say "we encourage under-represented communities to apply" whilst not doing anything else to actually ensure those communities get the job and its always the over-represented ones getting those jobs.
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honestly disgusting how so many of y'all are using this tweet to fan xenophobia knowing well enough what migrant labourers face down south
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at 19 I failed a couple of papers in college, bunked most of my undergrad and didn't have any idea what I wanted to do. things took time but after a lot of back and forth, I finally graduated MA and got one of the sought after jobs in the field
anyone who was miserable at 19 and now(24-25) is thriving at life. i want to have a talk w u
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Rajasthan has quietly built up one of the best welfare states in the country under Ashok Gehlot 👏🏼
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not surprising. most food chains use poor quality ingredients or straight up deception like this.
anyway, boycott McD and Free Palestine!
The Maharashtra FDA has cracked down on fast food giant
#McDonald
's, slamming them for a cheesy deception -- using substitutes in burgers and nuggets instead of real cheese.
Read:
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hate to be that guy always pointing out this stuff, but guys, please don't play NYT games like Wordle, Connections or whatever. if you genuinely care about Palestine, please don't help the newspaper at the forefront of manufacturing consent for the genocide
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um, let's not get carried away here guys. this Gandhian view of villages is just wishful thinking
these privileged people crying “hindus mein unity nahi hai” on social media. rural india has plenty of unity and brotherhood. they care about community, they care about co-existing, they care about their own, hindu or muslim. unity with only your own is bigotry and prejudice.
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I'll never understand this obsession with cost benefit analysis. Is it that difficult to acknowledge that some policies that ensure basic rights/needs are necessary regardless of the cost?
Free school meals are "effective but expensive."
That's the verdict from a World Bank / USAID / UK / UNICEF panel. They suggest prioritizing:
- info campaigns on benefits of schooling
- structured pedagogy (eg scripting)
- tracking kids by ability
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so Newslaundary raised public money to do the groundbreaking independent journalism of "Israel's crisis of Conscience"? lmao
🚨 OUT TODAY!
While the world's gaze is fixed on Israeli hostages, the Palestinian prisoners' torture remains largely invisible a year after
#Hamas
' attack.
In Ep 2 of
#GazaOneYearLater
,
@SreenivasanJain
explores how this abuse threatens
#Israel
's moral compass.
Stay tuned.
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better messaging and political acumen than almost everybody else in Congress I've seen.... and there's the idiot Tharoor lol
Right now, we have won the battle, we have to win the war.
If you win the war, then the country will be safe and Democracy shall be protected.
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like imagine funding and enabling a fucking genocide and being rewarded with a cover story on the top magazine of your country... says so much about american society
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the future of Bahujan politics looks very bright 💙
The Muslim community has voted for me Equally as the Dalits, I will not be able to repay this favour ~ Azad
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whenever i read a thread on him like this - always feels unreal that one person, coming from his socio-economic reality, was able to achieve and do so much good in his life. mind boggling
> Born in a Dalit (Mahar) family
> 1st Ph.D in Economics and 1st double doctorate in Economics in South Asia
> 1st Indian who graduated in Economics.
> First and only person to organise satyagraha for drinking water ( Mahad satyagraha)
(1/6)
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america is the authoritative dystopia it accuses other countries of being
Medics across the U.S. have been quietly injecting sedatives to subdue people detained by police.
Dozens of deaths reveal the practice carries risks, AP finds.
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it's mind boggling that because of rich folks, capitalists and even liberals repeating these idiotic arguments ad nauseam researchers actually had to undertake research studies... which proved that poor people are because they're trapped in a poverty trap
A rich person's understanding of poverty in India still baffles my mind
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turns out, Zomato doesn't transfer the full delivery fee to riders. I have no words
In many cases, India’s top food-delivery companies (
@zomato
and
@Swiggy
) are charging customers more for delivery than they actually pass on to their delivery partners.
In this week's Trade Tricks. Via
@TheKenWeb
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these people just refuse to let trickle down die lol
Poverty reduction requires wealth creation which is rarely possibly without an increase in inequality between those who create wealth and the rest. While some love to sound an alarm over such inequality, people at large rarely resent wealth creators.
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@tishasaroyan
@MarxAfterDark
could have owned up and apologised for misgendering someone instead of doubling down lol. humility is clearly an alien concept to you. classic baman arrogance talking down dalits
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not that any of us didn't know it earlier, but white hypocrisy is truly unmatched. we're seeing consent for genocide being manufactured in front of our eyes by white media, including liberals and progressives and no one's bothered in the least..cont
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it wasn't always a great feeling seeing my classmates in DU get into good internships through connects and excelling at the type of extracuricular activities I didn't even know existed because I went to a school only marginally better than your average govt school
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to list just a few: sitting CMs in jail, Congress accounts frozen, Rahul Gandhi disqualified from Parliament, dissenters languishing in jail under UAPA, bills passed without discussion, rise of bulldozer justice and let's not even get into Kashmir and Bastar
Turns out Indian democracy was never in “decline or “backsliding.” And neither has it now “revived.” These are illusions created by analysts and scholars. Indian democracy seems to be healthy - but deeply embedded in the ethos of India. There are challenges, and a mix of
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Fortunately, I got some opportunities in the last couple of years and was able to make the best out of them - thanks in no small part to the wonderful community of
@BahujanEcon
who I now work with to help students like me.
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I always tell myself that someone like me is not supposed to be in these spaces and that the fact I have made it this far is nothing less than an achievement in itself.
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@vaniIlaessence
building a school for fellow class elites is a great way of maintaining class hegemony. I'm sure they only charge fee to keep less rich people out
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won't get into why this is a rubbish article but just wondering, will any academics call her out here for this as they promptly do when students do something they don't like? or are they scared of souring their relationship with the Govt?
Major surveys that policymakers rely on — NSS, NFHS, and PLFS — are based on unsound data collection frameworks and systematically underestimate India’s progress and development. Dr
@ShamikaRavi
, Member,
@EACtoPM
writes.
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not only is this classist but also not correct. there's no need to look down upon labourers who toil in heat and cold, day in and day out to make your point.
Salary - 3.5 lpa
Per month - 29167
Per day - 941
Per hour (14h working + 2h commute) - INR 59.
MNREGA Gurgaon salary per hour - INR 45.
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our cities need basic infra that support the vulnerable and the working class not shining toys that the rich can brag about 🤦🏽♂️
🚨 Bihar CM Nitish Kumar approves metro projects in four cities of the state.
Muzaffarpur
Gaya
Darbhanga
Bhagalpur
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DU experience made me believe I wasn't meritorious enough which eventually led me to disassociate from academics during college. then there was also the guilt of having used reservations to get in
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this article is all vibes. what's meant by caste politics and why can't one focus both on caste and growth? how are they exclusive of each other? also looks like the member of EAC has forgotten a basic rule - correlation does not imply causation
How caste politics played a spoilsport for Bihar's growth while Odisha is surging forward. Dr
@ShamikaRavi
, Member,
@EACtoPM
writes.
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