A call for statistical transparency in India thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Indian elections: the toxic, but familiar, blend of minority designation and demography (fertility, migration, refugees).

Surprising to see how the Indian Express immediately jumps at the suggestion of any inheritance tax (a standard instrument of social justice) in India. Should fortunes, old or new, remain in (patriarchal) families forever for the system to prosper?. #InheritanceTax

So great that Laurence Gautier's study on Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia is finally out with Cambridge University Press! She looks at the relations of the two institutions with the state & "public debates on Muslims' status in post-partition India". doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Post-doc position in sociology at IIT Delhi! Here's a great opportunity to contribute to research and practice on issues of gender (in)equalities in STEM. sites.google.com/view/stemthega… check here: ird.iitd.ac.in/vacancies; IITD-IRD-127-2024. Last date to apply - 22nd June 2024.

Friends of IHDS please circulate and encourage your students to apply. Great opportunity to get research experience between MA & Ph.D.

Coming soon...

Yogendra Yadav : Ten half-truths about caste census A remarkably clear exposé! indianexpress.com/article/opinio… via The Indian Express

Monday musing: Nothing quite exposes a failed criminal justice system than the contrasting manner in which GN Saibaba and Gurmeet Ram Rahim were treated by law. Saibaba, a DU prof, who passed away on weekend was branded ‘Urban Naxal’, arrested under UAPA, denied bail on health

We have another faculty opening Sociology at Oxford - this time in demography! Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic. and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. W/ tutorial fellowship at St John’s College. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Fixed Effects: Fixed effects refer to variables or factors whose levels are specifically chosen and are of primary interest in the study. These effects are considered constant and non-random, meaning the conclusions drawn from them are applicable only to the specific levels

Christophe Z Guilmoto Himanshu The absence of caste-level data has been a pressing issue in India, with the long-standing demand for a caste census emerging as a major political point in the 2024 general elections. epw.in/journal/2024/4…

What the salad tried to do to us. The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face

Demographic and democratic transparency should always go hand in hand. As to COVID-19, let's remember that deaths primarily impacted families, not governments. ""Will the Government Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?" theindiaforum.in/health/will-go… The India Forum