Author: EconHistorienne
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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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Disquiet in Bharatpur over three ‘Jaipur’ arrests: cleric, teacher and a 15-year-old boy
First published in Indian Express: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/disquiet-in-bharatpur-over-three–jaipur–arrests-cleric-teacher-and-a-15yearold-boy/315505/0
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In this book of history, you are the hero
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/m0grFAuh6qGn4O09ieI5VI/In-this-book-of-history-you-are-the-hero.html
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From Bhopal to London, quest for justice travels in a bottle
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Neighbourhood B-schools: can they deliver?
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/QbtpPYTVCckhsFz9mNEGPJ/Neighbourhood-BSchools–High-on-promise-but-can-they-deli.html
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Seeking interns in new political culture
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/jwEQuxKpEyAgKDTy0oxN8H/Seeking-interns-in-new-political-culture.html
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25 years on, what’s next for Mayawati?
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/BfUgIQbCr0xrgTr6cdHfjK/25-years-on-what8217s-next-for-Mayawati.html
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A woman sarpanch finds her place under the sun
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/MNfpZSM9Wlm8jzKFtUC4yJ/A-woman-8216sarpanch8217-finds-her-place-in-the-sun.html
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Reading Hindustan in Bihar
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/Z1r7HfBhwKSstRvClBJ0cJ/Reading-8216Hindustan8217-in-Bihar.html
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Bharti’s cellular theory of growth
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/trjewrH7xTTOmOj9tHSPcN/Bharti8217s-cellular-theory-of-growth.html
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High on education
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/qYVv2AMqgAi6pW7WS6joeO/High-on-education.html
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Hullabaloo in the Hinterland
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/p5VNtDHKPA1WbpxCKirCyO/Theatre–Hullabaloo-in-the-hinterland.html
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Kamla Balan Bridge in Bihar – it’s a disaster waiting to happen
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/hXg4cJufdI5JSr5YbU0DoK/Kamla-Balan-bridge-it8217s-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.html
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The business of caste in India
Priyanka P. Narain and Pallavi SIngh Mumbai/New Delhi: Images of adventure reside in their collective memory—journeys into the cobbled streets of Antwerp to compete with powerful Hasidic Jew merchants for grubby stones, which, when polished and cut, would sparkle and dazzle. The journey that transformed the Palanpuri Jains from cloth and perfume traders into moguls…
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Bihar’s IIT dream
Patna: Along the busy Rajendra Nagar flyover in Patna, the skyline is dotted with huge, irregularly placed hoardings. More than a hundred in number, they congregate with a purpose: to help every child in the city enter the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the country’s premier technical institutes. This dream caught Navneet Rajan’s fancy when…
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Patna’s Brave New Nights
Pallavi SinghPatna That hot June afternoon in 1992 left an indelible imprint on Shanker Dutt’s memory. “June 5, in fact, let me tell you,” he says matter-of-factly. The professor of English was at Patna University’s Darbhanga House, the heritage precinct where postgraduate classes for literature students are held, attending a farewell function for one of…
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Rise of India’s caste warrior
Pallavi SinghDuhai, Ghaziabad: Caste is most often seen through the prism of conflict—the heated national debates about reservations, the political polarization on the census and the attacks on young couples that have been blessed by caste panchayats. But far away from the spotlight, there is the more benign world of organizations and activists who continue…
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Islamic students body on a mission for peace
Pallavi SinghNew Delhi: Hashmatullah Khan says the combination invites scrutiny: students, computers and Islam. In his case, it gets worse. He is general secretary of the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO). No, not the Students Islamic Movement of India, better known as SIMI, and effectively banned for alleged extremist activities. But Khan can’t avoid the connotation.…
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Government’s madrasa reform plan hits theological hurdle
New Delhi: The impasse over a government proposal to modernize madrasas, or traditional Islamic schools, illustrates how a “minority mindset” imposed by the ulema, or clergy, and politicians could draw Muslims deeper into the morass of conservatism, poverty and unemployment. Fostering education: (from left) Shafiqur Rahman, Abdul Khan, Afaque Rahmani and Salim Akhtar Bellali at…
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Happy birthday to Dietmar Rothermund!
For a budding economic historian, reading Dietmar Rothermund’s work on India can be an illuminating experience, given that apart from the works of Indian scholars on Indian economic history, Rothermund’s books provide a refreshing view of history. But what can be really special about this veteran historian is his extremely warm demeanour even to those…
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Can humans always be maximising their interests?
Gratitude, Kindness, Loveliness https://www.econlib.org/Gratitude_Kindness_Loveliness
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Why are Men Detaching from the Labor Force? http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-are-men-detaching-from-labor-force.html
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Inequality in publishing
Gender neutrality in economics: The role of editors and referees https://voxeu.org/article/gender-neutrality-economics-role-editors-and-referees Yet another paper confirming what we have known all along: Women academics face a higher bar for punishing in journals than their male peers.
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surgeons and sex
How Medieval Surgeons Shaped Sex and Gender https://daily.jstor.org/how-medieval-surgeons-shaped-sex-and-gender/ Fascinating take on the historical origins of how sex and gender came to be defined, and the role of medical surgeons in it.
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Millennials and Money
Four Reasons Why Millennials Don’t Have Any MoneyThe same forces… https://robertreich.org/post/190130389550 Same is true for India but the Indian media is busy sorting out its own credibility issues. Who has time to look at the real problems.
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Greta and Greenpeace
Exploitation of Greta – Greenpeace & Al Gore https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/exploitation-of-greta-greenpeace-al-gore/ I have been thinking about this for quite a while and now all of this makes sense. What do you think? Greta is an amazing girl, but sometimes, all that idealism ans activism could be harnessed for some people’s goals and not for world peace. I…
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