Author: EconHistorienne
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EconHistorienne: Inaugural issue out now, sign up
So finally, it’s here and it would be great for you to sign up for it now. Go to econhistorienne.substack.com and sign up. Let me know how you like it. Love and peace, PS.
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A memoir about an off-the-grid childhood and breaking out of it
Living life off the grid for the first seventeen years of her life, Tara goes through an entire gamut of challenges that she, along with her siblings, treated as ordinary as getting through another day without school.
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7 Things Govt Could Have Done To Stop the Delhi Riots
The law, judgments and precedents are unanimous: the police are empowered, can and must take urgent action to curb rioting. As former police chiefs tell us, the Delhi riots could have been stopped at many levels and stages. They were not. First published in Article-14. PALLAVI SINGH New Delhi: The toll in the deadliest communal […]
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My report as academic reference
This is just a delightful discovery. I have stumbled upon another book in which one of my reports on the RSS has been referenced. This was a 2018 release titled ‘Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India’ by academics Walter Andersen, and Shridhar D. Damle.
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Sec 144, CrPC: Is the law being misused? I find out
Here is a piece I wrote for Article 14 on Section 144 of the CrPC: This is the law that has been used by the police only too frequently to put restrictions on anti-CAA protests across India. But is such frequent use an abuse of the law? Read to find out.
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The Understanding Money Mechanics
mises.org/library/understanding-money-mechanics-0 I am a big sucker for economists explaining things, and an over sharer of all such knowledge made public. After Arjun Jayadev and Franko Milanovic’s free online video lecture series on Inequality, here is another one worth your time (link above) – The Understanding Money Mechanics series – by Robert P. Murphy. This is all going […]
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Via urbanomics: Rent versus buy: Renting is better, it seems
Trends in the global housing market http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Urbanomics/~3/Q1BnbqEmY6Y/trends-in-global-housing-market.html — Read on feedproxy.google.com/~r/Urbanomics/~3/Q1BnbqEmY6Y/trends-in-global-housing-market.html
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Share from Mostlyeconomics: Three development paradigms of Indian economy
Vijay Kelkar Convocation Address at BHU: Three development paradigms of Indian economy https://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/vijay-kelkar-convocation-address-at-bhu-three-development-paradigms-of-indian-economy/ — Read on mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/vijay-kelkar-convocation-address-at-bhu-three-development-paradigms-of-indian-economy/
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Link between education and the industrial revolution – Sharing Amol Agarwal’s post
Did education play a role in England’s industrial revolution? https://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/did-education-play-a-role-in-englands-industrial-revolution/ — Read on mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/did-education-play-a-role-in-englands-industrial-revolution/
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Budget 2020: Past matters but future is raged over
Yeah so, even as Budget 2020 is waiting to be ripped apart mostly for what it’s projections for the year ahead are, I am worried how little we care about the past when it comes to the budget. Hey, what exactly is budget anyway? Just a simple record of what the government earned and spent […]
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Why would a girl in Norway call herself a Hindu Cowgirl?
Don’t jump to conclusions right away and check this out: https://www.youtube.com/user/HinduCowGirl/videos This is the breathtaking video feed of a lady train driver/engineer who works on the Bergen Line in Norway and shoots stunning videos while driving on the route way from the driver’s cabin. She is clearly smitten by Hindu cows, hence the name. She […]
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Would you like to go to MIT without clearing college?
This may become possible if Nobel winners Duflo and Banerjee’s efforts are successful. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is trying the idea in the field of poverty alleviation, hoping that the approach will allow it to enrol students from around the world who have the ability and motivation to succeed but lack the traditional credentials for entry. […]
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Rare video of John Maynard Keynes
Here is a rare archival footage of Kenyes speaking on the gold standard. Savour.
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Highly curable if reported in time
Four diseases claim more than 24,000 lives in New Delhi . On top of the ‘killer list’ lies respiratory diseases. Heart diseases, tuberculosis (TB), and cancer come pretty close. Those who suffer, pay a big price — both physically and financially. Together, the four diseases affect more than 30 per cent of Delhi’s population. Such […]
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Woe of the working class
Four diseases claim more than 24,000 lives in New Delhi . On top of the ‘killer list’ lies respiratory diseases. Heart diseases, tuberculosis (TB), and cancer come pretty close. Those who suffer, pay a big price — both physically and financially. Together, the four diseases affect more than 30 per cent of Delhi’s population. Such […]
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Heat On Young Heart
Four diseases claim more than 24,000 lives in New Delhi . On top of the ‘killer list’ lies respiratory diseases. Heart diseases, tuberculosis (TB), and cancer come pretty close. Those who suffer, pay a big price — both physically and financially. Together, the four diseases affect more than 30 per cent of Delhi’s population. Such […]
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Smoking Life Out of Delhi
Four diseases claim more than 24,000 lives in New Delhi. On top of the ‘killer list’ lies respiratory diseases, followed by heart diseases, tuberculosis (TB), and cancer. Those who suffer, pay a big price — both physically and financially. Together, the four diseases affect more than 30 per cent of Delhi’s population. Such is the […]
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Video lecture series on Inequality
Economics professors Arjun Jayadev and Branko Milanovic have collaborated on a video lecture series on Inequality – the five vidoes, free to watch, clearly and succinctly explain what Inequality is all about, why you should care and other fundamentals you have been wondering about for long. It’s cut-the-clutter stuff that you shouldn’t miss. Watch here: […]
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EconHistorienne
I am launching EconHistorienne, my twice-a-month newsletter for original storytelling from India. Through this newsletter, I will deliver Narrative Storytelling on Inequality, Capitalism, Globalization and Social Unrest in India and essays on History to contextualize these themes. Why should you subscribe to my newsletter? Because you read, you value great research, you love good writing, […]
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Replugging Marginal Revolution interview with Vox media’s Ezra Klein because he is awesome!
My Conversation with Ezra Klein http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/feed/~3/S5rdzp8xwf0/my-conversation-with-ezra-klein.html — Read on feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/feed/~3/S5rdzp8xwf0/my-conversation-with-ezra-klein.html
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Vaak
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/lf1FezLBsjto8VKxCp79ZM/Vaak-a-newspaper-that-helps-brush-up-8216practical8217.html
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Sanskrit: reviving the language in today’s India
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/RF9fH5Q1wNOBdI0R46SlkL/Sanskrit-reviving-the-language-in-today8217s-India.html
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Will English become India’s weakness?
First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/0L6cHNcnZ9nw7WlPU66PdO/Will-English-become-India8217s-weakness.html
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Dalits look upon English as the language of emancipation
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/ItCo2HSpKjf98VvW8X4yAO/Dalits-look-upon-English-as-the-language-of-emancipation.html
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The pitfalls of Linguistic Jingoism
First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/0txPDNXphHIOmb2htIJ1UK/The-pitfalls-of-linguistic-jingoism.html
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In a Paharganj lane, Sangh coaches IAS aspirants, a third of this year’s batch trained there
First published here: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/in-a-paharganj-lane-sangh-coaches-ias-aspirants-a-third-of-this-year-s-batch-trained-there/311504/0
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Wife, 3 kids hadn’t seen him for a year until police showed him on TV as HuJI arrest
First published here: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/wife-3-kids-hadn-t-seen-him-for-a-year-until-police-showed-him-on-tv-as-huji-arrest/314187/0
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