Tag: Recently
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The Poetry Issue 2023
I was happy to be featured among 40 poets from India in The Punch magazine’s annual Poetry issue in January 2022. They renewed the honour this year by including my work among those of 40 poets from around the world in their annual poetry issue yet again. Deeply honoured, sharing the space with poets whose…
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From the precipice of death…
This was second coming, not a myth, but I am not sure how long it will last.
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Being Rabindranath Tagore
New post on EconHistorienne @Substack. I keep thinking about the Nobel for Rabindranath Tagore, India’s literary genius who was the first ever Indian to do so for literature and remains the only one so far. How did Tagore get noticed by the Nobel committee? Winning a Nobel requires genius and pathbreaking work, surely. But nominations…
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From Gender Gap to Trust Gap
This is how, even in a callous, tough world, there will be space for women to thrive, fail, thrive, just like men.
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Business history needs investigative rigour of a journalist
I know, many academics might squirm to hear of journalism beacuse while everyone yearns for the reach and influence journalism offers, many are quick to dismiss journalists’ work and the field altogether.
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Deirdre McCloskey
I met a legend in economics who told me to keep doing all that I am doing. Here is a picture of us.
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In the Honest Ulsterman today
‘Puberty’ is out in the @HonestUlsterman today, Northern Ireland’s leading literary mag.
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Bumper Diwali for British Indians
As soon as Rishi Sunak was back in the race to be Britain’s next prime minister after a difficult, arduous season of political scandals and mudslinging, Sunak’s religion and roots were back in focus. While all the other adjectives alluding to his immigrant, brown, South Asian roots are in order, the moniker some sections of the British…
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Glorious, troubled, revived: 5 European cities where history was made
Europe has plenty of it and I start with where I live – Belfast.
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Thank you, Roger Federer
That he would retire someday was inevitable and widely anticipated. Yet, tennis fans all over the world are dismayed, overwhelmed with a sense of loss, frenzied with anxiety over the announcement.
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75 years of Indian business: How we began and how far we have come
I must begin with a clarification: the history of Indian business is not as young as India as an independent nation. It goes back several centuries before India opened up its economy in the 1990s, even before it became an independent country. The 1990s were not the first time the Indian economy was open to…
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Khalil Gibran on rivers
Just want to bookmark this that I found on Sushmita Sen’s Instagram feed and a note to self (I have entered the ocean, but haven’t become the ocean yet). Scroll down for a video I want to bookmark too (and come back to again and again). And here is the video that made me reflect,…
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Indian values are a cornerstone of Rishi Sunak’s bid to be the UK’s next prime minister
The super wealthy politician, now in the running to be leader of the Conservative Party and the UK’s next prime minister, could embrace a few life lessons from father-in-law N.R. Narayana Murthy’s life.
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Reporting on UK politics
This was long in the making but what started the wave was resignations from two Asian ministers in Johnson’s cabinet, Sunak and Javid. Interesting given our shared history (India and Britain).
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Meet them all the same..
my poetry earned an honorable mention from the judges at the Paul Muldoon workshop in Kinsella..
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The world owes many debts to Boris Franz Becker
It’s true these are the worst of times for Boris Becker, now visibly condemned by both his country of birth and his country of residence. But will it be all it takes to erase a historic legacy?
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An exhibition in Belfast with its roots in India
Photographer Michael Donald’s exhibition in Belfast captures the Beatles Bungalow in Rishikesh, once home to the iconic British band, before it gives way to the forest. Read the full story here.
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Gender gaps in education
Interesting new paper from Dr Ashwini Despande of Ashoka University on gender gaps in school education in India, which underlines the persisting gaps in the quality of education offered to girls as compared to boys. The paper notes that “the gender gap in private schooling increased slightly over the period, with the largest increase in…
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Market for Economists 2021
Here is an interesting paper on what the academic job market looks like for new PhD economists in 2021. The findings reveal that while the supply of PhD economists is likely to be stable, the share of employers with at least one position open is likely to go down with a drop in demand. Read…
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QUB Podcast
QUB Belfast has a postgraduate podcast now and the first issue is already out. Do check out Student Voices without any further delay. This looks very promising and I am biased for obvious reasons. 🙂 Follow them on Twitter as well.
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Bubonic Plague replay 2020
If you thought this is done with and buried by our ancestors in history, you are terribly wrong. A California resident has now tested positive for the plague, becoming the first case in five years since the disease has been detected in the state. The plague originated in Asia over 2,000 years ago and was…
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Stephen Marglin
Everyone this week has been raving about this interview and it’s not for no reason. Harvard economist Stephen Marglin talks about his India connection in this interview with Maya Adereth, Shani Cohen and Jack Gross on Phenomenal World. Interesting conversation, richly framed. Don’t miss it.
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Mumbai floods
Floods in Mumbai are an annual affair. I know this may hurt some people but the day I visited Mumbai for the first time, it was raining cats and dogs, and exactly 21 days later, a major flooding of the financial capital took place. Financial Times reported this last year – the headline points to…
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Ruth Alice Allen
‘East Texas Lumber Workers’ (1961) is yet another pioneering work of Allen focusing on the economic conditions of the Texan lumber country, in which Allen viewed people’s physical, social and economic environments as the most important influence on their behaviour. Besides these, Allen worked on a range of collections and monographs on the labour history…
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Fiscal measures and global debt
Here is the latest on fiscal measures (courtesy: IMF) deployed by different countries: This stimulus collectively amounts $11 trillion worldwide. Yet, the state of global public debt is worrying too. Authors Vitor Gaspar and Gita Gopinath write: In the face of a sharp decline in global output, a massive fiscal response has been necessary to…
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