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India trained a post-colonial elite that is exceedingly skilled at talking about India's problems, but totally inept at fixing them. Unsurprisingly, it is a commonly held view among this class that even attempting to fix India's problems is futile without first ushering in a

Nice to see the spread of Gujarati Garba, Bengali Pandals, Malayali Onam Sadya, Marathi Ganesh Visarjan, etc… across all of India. Beyond nation-building, this is people-forging.

Beautiful ❤️

Striking differences in what kind of bachelors degree people are getting from the Chinese and Indian education systems. India: Humanities, Law and Business dominate, Science and Engineering are only recent. China: Engineering, Engineering, and Engineering

Himachal Pradesh | In an unusual case, during CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's visit to CID headquarters to inaugurate the Cyber wing’s new Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS) station in Himachal Pradesh’s capital, Shimla, samosas and cake intended

Cause prioritise this, Open Philanthropy

After a long journey, our paper “Technological Waves, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Growth,” with Enrico Berkes and Marti Mestieri, is forthcoming in the JPE Macro: journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpema/0/ja 🧵 Why do technological waves lead to the rise of some regions and the fall of others?

ನನ್ನ ಹಳೆ joke. ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕವಿಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು auto drivers ಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ಇರುವ ಸಮಾನತೆ : ಈ ಎರಡೂ ವರ್ಗದರೂ meter ಬಳಸೋದಿಲ್ಲ 😀😀😀

Really happy to see this in print. Will do a full thread later but big picture take-aways: (1) Admin data on learning in India has severe manipulation (2) No easy statistical fixes. Be v cautious using these for research or policy (3) We can do better (companion RCT in EJ)

A Life in Portraits: Ye Jinglu, a Chinese who took a selfie every year from 1907 to 1968, for 62 years, compiled a chronicle of his personal odyssey from the Qing Empire through the Republican Period and extending well into the People's Republic of China. 🧵 1/63

NEW VIDEO - on the state of Bengaluru's roads, BBMP's lust for more flyovers & tunnels, and India's urgent need for legitimate urban governments 🗳️ Enjoy! youtu.be/lV7s_aks_4A

Who is making an "Empire of Dust" for India?

GM. Remember: You can just do things.

Ben Gross I’ve thought about this for a while since reading it cremieux.xyz/p/the-rise-and…

This is perhaps the best thing produced by the internet in recent history.

What recognizing superior talent in real-time looks like

Handouts are just table stakes at this point simonchauchard.com/wp-content/upl…

Cancer in our stars