A beautiful sketch of Droupadi Murmu, tipped to be next President of India, by P. K. Mahanandia, a legendary artist from Odisha who had taken bicycle ride from India to Sweden to meet his wife. @hindu, Nistula Hebbar

Why do we tax mostly production & consumption but not the people and industries that benefit from global resource extraction, capital gain and land value? And why don’t we instead introduce fees for those who profit from common goods and services & redistribute the proceeds? 🧵

📢New Review! Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift 🌄 Lin Ding et al. highlight the importance of inherited weaknesses from pre-Cenozoic tectonic events in the surface uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau nature.com/articles/s4301… Free: rdcu.be/cSymn

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a prolific scholar whose contributions to the study of place have inspired and informed generations of geographers. He will be deeply missed.

We in The Hindu have brought out a special edition on #Independenceday. The front page is a replica of what was published on August 15, 1947. (1/n)

Freebies update: “Write-offs” of corporate debt in the last few years. Big business never had such a good time. (Credit: Vivek Kaul, RBI data)

"NREGA is the only way forward to take on the Maoists. This is nothing about winning hearts and minds. Its only about giving people work before the rebels come in and convince them that they are a better option than the state" How NREGA lowers conflict by insuring against shocks:

Super Brain Yoga - Indian school's punishment of old days now discovered as super brain yoga. #EIIRInteresting #yoga Credit: CBS2 News, ViaWeb

This is wild how accurate it is

All eyes on Chile who vote today on adopting one of the world’s most progressive constitutions that’ll cement social, ecological and indigenous rights. Corporate press have bombarded the public with a tsunami of misinformation yet 700,000 tallied in favour yesterday We have hope

29 years since the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, we must never forget how easily hate speech turns to hate crime. Let us be ever vigilant – and always ready to act.

Researchers at UT Austin have developed an A.I. that can translate the private thoughts of people by analyzing fMRI scans, which measure the flow of blood to different regions in the brain nyti.ms/41g20qC

In dulcet tones, Vaibhav Kaul's voice takes flight, A melody that stirs the soul, igniting hearts alight.

Global South Scholars should only study Global South, and preferably their own country of origin. But Global North scholars can magically research any place on this planet, because you know, their colonial and racial privilege makes them exceptionally "meritorious".

Uttar Pradesh: Rs 1000 a month as old age pension; Rs 1500 a month for cows

Urbicide; A term which describes the deliberate wrecking or "killing" of a city, by direct or indirect means. literally translates as "city-killing" See ‘Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics’ Stephen Graham (2007)

Clear and very useful explanation of why the recently released data from the NSS Consumer Expenditure Survey of 2022-23 cannot be compared with earlier surveys, and why it cannot justify the claim that poverty incidence is less than 5%. thewire.in/economy/why-th…

1/ From today's The Hindu. Let me put out a short thread on how this piece got written, and why I think it is important in the ongoing debate on Union-State economic relations. This was a topic I started looking at, first for some fun but later with some academic amusement.

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