My pape, after incorporating all reviewer recommendations.

Happy to share my paper on urban water governance. I use case studies from the Bangalore's colonial period to argue that fragmented governance is a historical issue and reflect on a few governance continuities in the current time period.

Need a start up that teaches blr techies class and caste consciousness. Untapped market.

"Am I just an anniversary event to the people? Why don't they wake up with the thought of my persecution and sleep with it? Why are they not troubled with the fact that anybody can be put behind bars for years without trial?" Umar Khalid asked me today. Do we have the answers?

Delhi's monuments are monumenting in this spell of sunshine. Mehrauli Archaeological Park.

Thrilled to circulate the cfp for the First STS-IN conference. Delhi, Dec'2025. Check it out. stsin.org/stsinc25/

Ambulances, as part of public health infrastructure, are essential services that should be universally accessible. Plugging infrastructural gaps with private solutions creates dependency on profit-driven entities, undermining long-term investments in public infrastructure.

This is delicious: how China's DeepSeek has blown a $1 trillion hole in the US Technofeudal Order. All it took was a smart tech solution that turned OpenAI's process of commodifying our data into a free good. Let's see how our technofeudalists respond theguardian.com/business/2025/…

fyi the next time you’re at cubbon or lal baug: notice the large boulders. they’re from the Dharwar Craton and roughly about 3.2 BILLION years old. ❤️‍🔥

‘Debt entanglements: Rethinking the developmental state in the global South” Mariana Diaz Chalela & I have a new piece in Economy & Society that examines credit, debt and the developmental state in Colombia and beyond Give it a read! 📌 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to share my open-access pedagogical introduction to Marxist political economy & its analysis of capitalism (this is literally how I teach it to students who have no exposure to Marx/Classical Political Economy). doi.org/10.1177/097226…

We are the workers, strong and proud; we will not be slaves again. During the mass gathering organized by KITU in Bangalore, IT employees burning effigies of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy and L&T Chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan, who are advocating for increased working hours.

Catch us tomorrow at our panel at #AAG2025 Detroit bright and early! ‘Uneven Spatial Legacies of 20th century Developmental State’ brings together different disciplinary perspectives on developmental projects across South Asia and Latin America American Association of Geographers

New #BookReview forum: Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi with an author response from Sushmita Pati buff.ly/YSbFVFA aditi Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay Karen Coelho Cambridge University Press

This book review forum by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay l Karen Coelho and myself on Sushmita Pati’s brilliant book is finally out! Do check it out, I think PoR is one of the most imp contributions to the field in the last few years.

Foxconn’s iPhone factory is turning a rural Indian town into a real estate hot spot. Its plot, the size of 220 football fields, will generate 40,000 jobs. “It’s like seeding a whole new city’s worth of employment...almost overnight." Rest of World restofworld.org/2025/foxconn-i…

Lecture | How has the national desire for self-reliance historically shaped and evolved in Bengaluru? Dive into the history of the technopolitics in Bengaluru with historian Aditi Dey aditi, examined through the city’s technological and industrial projects over decades.

without exaggeration, this might be the biggest political scandal in the world right now. India can no longer claim to be even an electoral autocracy.

That the most vile and uncouth elements of society are also expressing sadness today only shows that the two judges have surpassed even the Executive’s expectations and outshone their fellow judges who lacked the courage to *fully* oblige it. Slow claps.