Dive into the perennial debate: Does economics dominate politics or vice versa? Lokniti-CSDS' latest piece in The Hindu by Sanjay Kumar, suhas palshikar, and Sandeep Shastri addresses this question for the upcoming #2024elections .

CSDS, Delhi

Delightful Kindle read of the book 'False Allies: Indias Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma' by Manu S Pillai. The density of insights per page with shock value pauses you to think often. A 5 hour long ride to Thiruvananthapuram gave me some uninterrupted time to appreciate it.

Yet had to spend nearly 6 years in jail

>Mumbai police book Ajit Pawar, ED follows
>Ajit Pawar joins the MVA govt
>Mumbai police close the case
>MVA govt falls
>Mumbai police reopen the case
>Ajit Pawar joins NDA
>Mumbai police close the case again, ED case infructuous
I report
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25 politicians facing corruption charges flock to BJP, 23 get relief: Report
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Identify the temple, masjid, synagogue and church in Kerala.

While we love him to bits and wish we could keep him, we need to make room for other rescues. And though it breaks our hearts to give him up, Bruno needs a forever home. If you or anyone you know can give him the home he deserves, DM me. He will change your life.

Congress gets tax notices for three more years, total I-T demand Rs 3,567 cr
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Income Tax Department issues fresh notices to Congress to pay 1,823 crore as tax dues.
54 crore for FY 1993-94,
182 crore for FY 2016-17,
179 crore for FY 2017-18,
918 crore for FY 2018-19,
490 crore for FY 2019-20.

Already I-T Department has frozen 135 crores from the accounts…

IT dept serves fresh notice for Rs 1700 crore tax to Congress ahead of polls
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Just finished 'The Ivory Throne' by Manu S Pillai It's a hefty read, but every page is packed with incredible research and masterful storytelling. Hard to believe this was his debut.

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On Defections, relevant even today.

Israel has exhausted even Biden's tolerance for the indiscriminate mass-murder of civilians

UN Security Council calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza - on.ft.com/3TNtnaS via Financial Times

Some blame the Manusmriti for caste, some blame the British. But the primary sources tell a weirder story: of traders, artisans and mercenaries wielding it as a political tool during the fall of the Chola Empire.

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On one hand, supreme confidence that they'll win 400+ seats; on the other, stooping to freeze bank accounts of #Opposition party in 30-year-old case (a party that's hopelessly outmatched, is in a shambles, poor leadership, etc). How do political analysts reconcile these two?

This is one of my favourite conversations ever.

Deepak VS joins me in episode 373 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about morality, entrepreneurship, education, life & the old hag who sits on your chest: seenunseen.in/episodes/2024/…

It's an explosion of ideas. Listen! 🙂

3 hours listening to Manu S Pillai talk Indian history on Mukesh Bansal 's Sparx podcast, well spent!
Manu ji, if everyone could intersperse history with this kind of compelling storytelling I bet more of us would be a lot interested and invested in learning (and preserving) it.