Only 4 days to go! Data For India is hosting its first-ever #OfficeHours session, “Numbers for your Narratives,” this Friday. The inaugural session is for the data journalism community. Whether you’re a journalist, reporter, producer, editor, or part of a desk team, this

Anyone interested in understanding data and working with data would find this very useful.

In between - a decade or two back - one thought that dowry deaths were declining. Maybe I didn’t read enough about them in the media. The data below is depressing. What use is all the education and prosperity…

If you see the guns most Indian revolutionaries used, it would inevitably be the German Mauser. One of the main reasons is a daring operation known as the Rodda Company Arms Heist executed on in this day, 111 years ago. Bipin Bihari Ganguly, Anukul Chandra Mukherjee & Shrish

Priya Ramani writes in anguish: Nikki Bhati case: To fight dowry, we must acknowledge it first indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

The case for targeted cash transfers. It is known that they work and money is not wasted. Should the discussion now be about how to grow the pie to support the transfers? Are these transfers crunching other essential spending which will have adverse long term consequences?

if modi withdrew indian troops from ukraine this war would be over.

So a Blue Tokai opened up in Dehradun and my parents went there and were scandalised at the bread prices - Rs 180 for multigrain, they buy theirs for about 60 from the local bakery. That made me think of how causally my generation spends money. It never even occurs to me how much

How cool is this.

Make her famous. It is our duty to stand by the rare officers who dare to do their job fearlessly. She has put her future on the line for us. Let us reciprocate by standing with her!! 🫡🙏🙌🏽🙌🏽

One of the most remarkable stories of change in India has been the successful effort to bring most children into schools. To understand how many children in a particular educational level are in school, we look at a measure called the enrolment ratio. The Gross Enrolment Ratio

Indian Liberals Matter Highly recommend this ongoing series of the Swatantra critique of Indian socialism, with writers of the calibre of Rajaji, BR Shenoy, Minoo Masani, Nani Palkhivala and Sharad Joshi theprint.in/category/opini…

Someone on Reddit asked what does Zerodha do differently, how are we profitable, why don't IPO etc. This is what I replied: Hmmm... so you forget that we have spent 15 years getting here. And maybe another 10 years, before Zerodha, I was involved in the markets in some form. So,

Women's choice to follow rigid religious restrictions only matters when other women also have the safe choice to reject them without being hounded, harassed or killed. You can't say it's a woman's choice to embrace the rules religion imposes on them when you kill those who don't

Asia’s first Enhanced Rock Weathering Project receives validation! Merely 18 months after Shrey Agarwal & I started Alt Carbon, our Darjeeling Revival Project has been validated by Isometric. To put it in context-- this has NEVER been done before in India. We have

When hypocrisy might have its uses: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit…

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Tree-lined streets and (gasp) actual kerbs and footpaths in the heart of Kolkata - South (Alipore) and North (Manicktala), and VIP Road towards the airport. These are amongst the older parts of the city, not in some showpiece privately developed new areas. PS: no potholes!

Simply wow!

Reminds me of one of my earlier colleagues. He used to say that the meaning of customer is “कष्ट से मर ।”