The Inequalities AI Is Creating – and Deepening – Around the World.

[It is the most important conversation to be had now]
Jahnavi Sen Madhumita Murgia , AI Editor Financial Times discuss AI in context of those far away from Silicon Valley.

Hidden labour behind ‘AI’
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As India posted world record of COVID cases funeral pyres of people, who died due to the coronavirus disease were pictured at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, April 22, 2021. Reuters #CovidIndia

Modi Says Electoral Bond Enabled Tracking Money Trail, a look at his government’s continued defence both inside and outside court shows that BJP govt went out on a limb to protect anonymity of the money trail until the Supreme Court scrapped the scheme
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j-hope <NEURON (with Gaeko, yoonmirae)> Official Motion Picture
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#jhope _NEURON #HOPE_ON_THE_STREET #홉온스
#jhope #제이홉 #Gaeko #개코 #yoonmirae #윤미래

Freed, finally!
Former DU professor G.N.Saibaba, with his family, friends and lawyers outside Nagpur Central Prison. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Saibaba and five others of “terrorism” charges.
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#Books | Finding in History, a Home for COVID-19

There are many reasons why 'The Moral Contagion' by Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee acts as succour and makes our current age feel less wretched.

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Really happy to share that the film is now live on Financial Times Thanks to One World Media Pulitzer Center for all the support.
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What Needs to Be Disclosed by March 31: 5 Charts to Gauge the Cash Flow Through Electoral Bonds | Soumashree reports

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We Need to Know Who Gave Crores to Parties for the Past Six years
Soumashree Charts Out All That Needs to Be Disclosed by March 31, 2024
Fun-fact: In Jan 2024, 94% of Bonds went in Rs 1 Cr denomination
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Archeologist Supriya Varma:
“even today, there is no archeological evidence that there was a temple under the Babri Masjid.” According to her, “Underneath the Babri Masjid, there are actually older mosques.”

Let the political project thrive

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OPD services to be hit due to #RamMandirPranPrathistha

#AIIMSDelhi -13k; Safdarjung8k; RML9k;Lady Hardinge:2k

Docs say: It’s cruel, unprecedented

32k OPD Appointments, 1200 Surgeries Won't Happen Thanks to Ram Mandir Holiday at 4 Center-Run Hosps

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In 2024, India Will Bank on Political Satirists – Its Remaining Truth-Tellers | Soumashree writes

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#Media | In 2024, India Will Bank on Political Satirists – Its Remaining Truth-Tellers

It is no joke that in a country which is itself inching towards full blown satire each day, comedians have taken on the mantle of relaying news.

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An absolute first-rate story by Soumashree which is a biting comment on our times.

In 2024, India Will Bank on Political Satirists – Its Remaining Truth-Tellers

Must-read ✒️
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Can the Indian Sportswoman Speak?
She can, says Soumashree
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She Explains Why সোহিনী 🌻 | ஸோஹினி | Sohini ‘s acclaimed ’The Day I Became a Runner’ is “a gigantic insistence of the fact that patriarchy can be an anecdote at best, and not the whole story for her.”

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Can the Indian Sportswoman Speak? | Soumashree reviews সোহিনী 🌻 | ஸோஹினி | Sohini’s book

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#Review | How to Feast on Silence

Chetna Maroo's Booker shorlisted novel 'Western Lane' is quiet in a way that is tyranny to the reader but to the inhabitants of the novel, it is necessary, calming and stark in its beauty.

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How to Feast on Silence. Lovely review of ‘Western Lane’ by ⁦Soumashree⁩ #TIL That squash was devised in a London prison thewire.in/books/chetna-m…

Dantewada: Maoist Threats Recede But No Development Either
Hiroli is barely 15 km from NMDC’s Kirandul Complex-India’s largest iron ore producer.Villagers worry of groundwater contamination from mining yet to see roads pipe water uninterrupted electricity
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#World | Close on the heels of what is being seen as 'the largest Jewish protest in solidarity with Palestinians in US history,' the group Jewish Voice for Peace are keen to break the cycle that ethnic atrocities follow.

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