The utter stupidity of India's 'experts' never fails to amaze me. For years, these half-wits have been saying that strict labour laws make it tough for India to become a manufacturing hub. Here are some facts: 1) Wages & Salaries account for roughly 7 percent of all costs in

Flaubert - "Read, do not dream."

This is sheer blackmail. They knew what they were doing. The fault lies with civil aviation ministry that they have repeatedly allowed private airlines to hold the country to ransom and extract concessions. Kingfisher and Jet Airways didi it in the past. You have to have more

It’s very rare that an account on Thailand & Cambodia and their wars these days mention the history of the Vietnamese-Soviet reconstruction of post-genocide Cambodia (1979-91). This is a must-read polemic essay. dindeng.com/thai-cambo-war/

Open Access | The Sangh is neither infinite nor unknowable. A special investigation that Felix Pal helped lead, conducted over a period of six years, with data now housed at Science Po’s Centre de recherches internationales, and fact-checked and released by The Caravan, has

Good piece making an important point: the expansion of gig work in China is not just due to social change or tech exploitation, but an economy that is running below potential and not creating enough jobs

american craftsmanship is declining. 20 years ago, if you wanted to manufacture a reason for a war, you had to make a map and do a little presentation at the UN. now you just say anything.

No matter what Galgotia University did at the India AI summit, there is NO reason to humiliate its students. Some of the worst Indians are from elite institutions like St. Stephens and the IITs and the best from non-elite ones. Some of the worst humans alive are from Harvard.

Depressing part of growing older in a collapsing imperial gerontocracy (among many) is not only have I heard all these bullshit justifications for war before but I've literally heard them from the same people

I’m not always comfortable with the term ‘global south’. But as both China & India have consistently taken the interests of developing countries seriously, I proceed as such. One has largely recovered with the global south since the 2000s, another has deviated, esp. since 2023.

Just thinking about how South African apartheid was eventually destroyed not because the world suddenly woke up to the evils of racism, but because apartheid South Africa started wars on too many fronts and overextended itself into oblivion. No reason.

She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.

Abhishek, Josh and Arvind Subramanian present a compelling analysis Professional economists and Econ policy wonks must read

Public information announcement: India is still exporting refined petroleum and petroleum products No curbs are being imposed or contemplated 15 days into the oil war Thank you for your attention to this matter

There is so much talk right now about how journalism is unsustainable financially, that business models are tapped out and growth is hard to come by. But there is no talk of the bigger scandal in media, which is that it has become morally unsustainable. What is the purpose of

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct

Hey WordPress.com, why has my blog been taken down? And sans intimation? (And what terms of service did I violate? All I do here is aggregate links to my journalism) PS: Folks, their contact form is not accepting my complaint either. Could you amplify this message please?

#PeekOnGround: A family of 8 lives in a small, dingy room that is not even tall enough for a person to stand straight - this is how many of the workers protesting for wage hikes in Noida live. Peek TV’s co-founder Vedanta Agarwal visited one such worker’s house.

If you visit areas in and around Delhi where workers live even once, the horrific living conditions will stay with you. I don't know where people get the audacity to say that workers in NCR earn "decent" money. Of course this is true of nearly every Indian city.

I never saw a single episode of breaking bad bcz I hate the desert passionately and I don't care about men's personal journeys