Ways of Seeing Sunday, The Economic Times, 3 December 2023

Movies and Economics Papers, a 🧵 Toilet, ek Prem Katha (1/n) The movie highlights how the availability of toilets in rural India is driven by norms of ritual purity and shows rural women demanding toilets as they enter the marriage market --

Movies as Economics, a 🧵 #EconTwitter Hindi Medium (2/n) Talks about a couple that moves to a poor neighbourhood to secure admission for their daughter in an 'english-medium' school - this proximity to people from a different social class reduces contempt and biases.

Familiarity and Discrimination (1/2) Rao (2019) studies a reservation policy change in Delhi's private schools and finds that having poor classmates makes richer students more pro-social and less likely to discriminate. This is driven by interpersonal interactions between groups

#newbookalert Handbook on Urban History of Early India, ed Aloka Parasher Sen, 2024, Springer Nature, Singapore.

Movies as Economics, a 🧵#EconTwitter Gulabo Sitabo (3/n) Centered around themes of property rights and legal land ownership, Gulabo Sitabo highlights the value of property in Mirza's personal and social identity.

Why we need academic historians and better history classrooms to fix the current situation! Blaming academic historians as the problem is a misguided diagnosis! Read my thoughts on the recent public debate wrt “WhatsApp History” in TOI today!

Some thoughts on popular and academic history in India: The reason that Indian history has been a source of inspiration for historians globally has been because of the really extraordinary scholarship of historians in India, who have worked in very difficult conditions.

Economic Times, Sunday, 24 November 2024 m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

A tribute #ZakirHussain

The early places of worship were simple structures made of brick or wood or even a little niche for the offerings as can be cleaned from the Brahmi scripts. It was only in the Gupta period that temples started finding much more definition. Parul Pandya Dhar and Ashwita in

The patronage patterns of temples are mixed, some were commissioned by the community or traders and others by the ruling families of a region. Parul Pandya Dhar in conversation with Ashwita Jaigarh Heritage Festival Rajasthan Tourism Priya Agarwal Hebbar

CHISELLING THE DIVINE: THE INDIAN TEMPLE, Parul Pandya Dhar in conversation with Ashwitha Jayakumar Jaigarh Heritage Festival Sanjoy K Roy

A conversation followed, with art historian Parul Pandya Dhar discussing the intricate architecture of Indian temples with writer Ashwitha Jayakumar. In another session, historian Rana Safvi رعنا राना and the Gaddi-Nashin of Ajmer Sharif, Haji Syed Salman Chishty, explored India’s Sufi traditions. (2)

Ways of Seeing, Economic Times, Sunday, 23rd February 2025. m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

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MUP Co-published with Routledge- The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Ramayana in South India and Southeast Asia✨ Manipal Academy of Higher Education MAHE Bengaluru Parul Pandya Dhar #MUP #copublished #copublishing #ScopusIndexed #Multivalence #southindia #Routledge #TaylorAndFrancis #MAHE