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Pleased to share three poems of mine that appear in Issue 118 of Muse including - a ghazal for my grandfather - an ode to the salt-pepper-lemon-onion - and a ghazal that argues that "all poems end in Paradise" museindia.com/Home/ViewConte…

My latest dispatch imagines Dostoevsky as an Economist (Ch. 21): open.substack.com/pub/inkuilab/p…

Dr. Manmohan Singh has left an indelible mark on India and his leadership, his decency, his character, his humanity, his humility and his dignity will be deeply missed. I had the good fortune of meeting him on several occasions. He was always so warm and gracious. I will miss

David Engerman Yale South Asian Studies Council on the education of Dr Manmohan Singh m.thewire.in/article/econom…

Crémieux PSA: This data is from a 'paper' in Mankind Quarterly, a pseudoscientific journal considered to be the "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment." The author Richard Lynn had his professorship revoked for white supremacy & unsystematic scientific methodology. "a friend"

Ha-Joon Chang once told me that trying to learn about political economy and economic history in an economics department is like trying to learn about atheism in the Catholic church. He captured how I had been feeling my entire undergrad, stuck in an economics department.

Over the past few years of scrounging through London bookstores, I've ended up a number of books that once belonged to Lord Flight. His ex-libris is most 'distinctive' ,,, a smiling portrait of Flight photoshopped onto an engraving of Samuel Pepys. Any Amount of Books

I wonder what the editors at TOI India, Mint, and Economic Times do these days. Nearly every article these days is an identical fluff-pieces that has been pasted from Chat-GPT with minimal editing or research ...

This Thursday at the Oxford Union: 🗣️ Debate: This House Has No Confidence in the International Courts Join the debate and have your say! PROP Robert Amsterdam tomginsburg Tor Krever OPP Dame E Sharpton KC Prof Robert Spano Amb Stephen J.Rapp

Everytime friends ask me about India's economy, I am reminded that our last census was nearly 15 yrs ago. When we don't reliably know the 'capita' part of 'GDP per capita,' how can we ever estimate growth / poverty rates? project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru… Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate

Every modern subcontinental poet I love has graced the pages of Indian Literature. Honoured to have my poems 'ghazal 29' and 'the smell of chlorine' appear in the latest volume (346)! jstor.org/stable/e273652… Sahitya Akademi

As always, Meg Meyer is the voice of reason.

Use your brains. Use common-sense. Do not fall prey to propaganda, whether official or unofficial. Stay safe. And above all, demand a return to peace.

Have you wondered how the city is a character in a novel or a movie? That the city is a live emotion? How you pine for your city from afar? A fantastic new poet-author-economist on the block Bilal Moin has edited an anthology: The Penguin Book of Poems on the India City.

HT's pick of interesting reads of the week includes books by Adhir Biswas, Maj Gen Shahnawaz Khan (INA), and Bilal Moin hindustantimes.com/books/ht-picks…

Bilal Moin's wonderfully edited book of poems on Indian cities published by Penguin just arrived. I've two poems, one on Srinagar and one on Dilli.

Kartik Bilal Moin It's a marvellous anthology, and I'm delighted to have a number of poems in it! Many congratulations, dear Bilal!

The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, excerpted in Scroll.in Penguin India