Author: EconHistorienne
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To be featured..
…in a booklet that will showcase 90 writers from Ireland at every stage of their careers from emerging and early-career to established voices.
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IWC artist grant again!
The two IWC grants I have received this year are short-term programmes and I am looking forward to both.
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Poetry in Motion Anthology, Threshold.
Community Arts Partnership’s 2021/2022 anthology will feature one of my poems.
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5 Hindi poems in Jankipul
Finally, five Hindi poems published for the first time. Guess, that makes me a bilingual poet.
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Irish Writers’ Centre bursary 2022
Another reason for joy this month: Irish Writers’ Centre writing bursary 2022
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Featured in Poetry Issue 2022, The Punch
My poems have featured in this special Issue of The Punch magazine, which features forty Indian poets.
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Poem in Madras Courier
One of my poems ‘The Frost Blue Coat’ was published in the Madras Courier today.
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Reading List
Top reads from the Internet in Business/History, Future of Capitalism & Globalisation, and Mental Health.
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Sep 26-Oct 2, 2021
Top reads in Business/History, Future of Capitalism & Globalisation, and Mental Health.
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Bodleian Libraries
The collection of one hundred thousand images are now freely available worldwide to anyone
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PhD project
PhD Project Title: Capitalism and Globalisation: Do social ties matter? Research Focus Focused on exploring the long-term trends in capitalism and entrepreneurship, my research studies the interactions between globalisation and the social ties binding Indian businesses during the years 1857-1970. Research Interests Economic history, business history and social science history. The relationship between capitalism, globalisation […]
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Northern Ireland is 100 and getting older
Northern Ireland is celebrating its centenary year and fresh statistics are here to add a hint of gravity to the mix.
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Things to remember in academia
If you are in academia, you know what this hashtag means – # academictwitter. Often, I am jittery reading all the feeds but a few points I remember as useful lessons are listed below (the post will be updated periodically): ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE
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A rich brew
This perhaps is the most powerful conversation starter, pretty much capable of spawning new cultures, or catalysing capitalism, liberalism or what have you.
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Protected: #3 Pandemic of Inequality Won’t Let Us Breathe
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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It’s a good time for Atlas cycles to make a comeback
Bicycle manufacturing is a complex chain of production that passes through a global value chain which is currently adversely affected by the pandemic.
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When does furlough end ?
This was one of the top 5 “when” queries in Google search in 2020. Understandably, furlough has been a big topic for discussion here in Northern Ireland as well. Ever since I landed here, I have made countless friends and met complete strangers out of my journalistic curiosity a number of who I found were […]
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Can Atlas Cycles make a comeback?
I wrote this for @moneycontrolcom and the inspiration came from my brother. More than a decade after he left high school, he invested in a bicycle. This reminded me of our favourite wheels as children — Atlas cycles. COVID-19 and the restrictions it imposed had clearly tested the patience of thousands like him who had […]
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Note to Self
Being quiet is being loud with your soul. Ask how worries become oceans and swallow the shanty towns of existence, as if all there was to life was a hopeless struggle to not drown. Imagine being quiet with a life like that. No, you can’t. There is no noise to this state of being.
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Bookmark these reads on culture
It’s fascinating to look at multidisciplinary studies in understanding culture. To this purpose, Jared Rubin‘s posts on the Broadstreet blog are amazingly well-articulated and engage with the critical questions in research on culture not excluding other writers who write for the blog. I came across the work of John Mohr who is no more but […]
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How to write meaningfully
You might want to check this video out, as recommended by Prof Michael Muthukrishna in his newsletter. It’s long (and yes, I went through all of it) to genuinely recommend it to you all. But of course, see if this works for you.
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Professor Sir John Hills
His influential body of work looked at issues of inequality, social inclusion, the welfare state and the role of social policy.
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Writing like a nerd
Lol, that’s my slang for academic writing. It’s rigorous, theory and evidence based and critical in its pursuit of facts. In a newsroom, my challenge was to simplify and explain the news and offer a news peg; in academia, the challenge is to encapsulate complex ideas without repetition or obfuscation, never forgetting that critiquing is equally important to any good academic work. Here is my list …