My sixth grader is doing percentages in her math class. She and I worked through the EAC-PM numbers.

Media: Please stop peddling this report that is potentially inciting genocide during a poll season driven by hate speeches coming from the very top.

They are not being misreported. That is why that so-called paper was written, as a job application in case Modi returns to power.

Indeed.

From my vantage point, the real tragedy is how so few academic development economists are willing to call this out, for their careers are built on privileged access to the state. Such careerist sell-out is one reason why we find ourselves here.

'To comprehend the full import of Modi’s strident hate speeches in the summer electoral campaign of 2024, we must be mindful that the hatred of Muslims is as central to the Hindutva project as the hatred of Jews was to the Nazi project.' Harsh Mander
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Apropos the mendacious spinning of an otherwise non-descript and mediocre working paper doing rounds in the media in the already polarized election season, here is an accessible religious demography piece by K. S. James.

Listen to this UChicago graduate student. He is what every tenured faculty member around the world should be.

Even as Western states led by the US are sponsoring genocide, these students are a refreshing fountain of hope.
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1/10 This InFocus The Hindu podcast with MG Devasahayam on the delay by the #ElectionCommissionOfIndia in releasing polling data is, to my mind, a very imp. episode for everyone to hear, so a quick thread on what MGD explains with great clarity (link to pod in replies below)

A beautiful piece on India's conscience keeper and national treasure, Harsh Mander. Do read.

It is the silence and complicity of the Hindu majority that enables this. This complicity is also what robs our institutions of their agency.

The hard empirical fact is that a large plurality, if not a majority, of Indians support this vitriol.
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#LokSabhaElections2024

India is voting today in the third phase of the 2024 general elections under truly oppressive heat conditions.

I hope my fellow citizens are able to brave this physical heat to try and push back on the vitriolic communal heat that has poisoned our country.

My new open-access paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives argues that the radical 2020 Census disclosure control program was an embarrassing failure. /1
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Uttarakhand FOREST FIRES: In the past few days, five people have lost their lives to the forest fires in #Uttarakhand . While the flames ravage the forests in the hilly state, the Chief Minister remains preoccupied with narratives of Hindutva, Love Jihad, and Uniform Civil Code.

The political economy of heat in India, like so many other things, is rooted in caste hierarchy. I reckon the political economy of thermal injustice will become a salient political issue sooner than most people imagine.

Genocide never begins in the gas chambers.

Beyond the obvious capture of institutions such as the ECI, this venomous BJP Karnataka 'ad' is also about the complicity of the majority community.

Speak out. 'You can't be neutral on a moving train,' certainly not on this one.