The Indian govt has destroyed legitimate research institutions only to replace them with crony capitalist funded nonsense from the house of Adani & Ambani. ft.com/content/8ff366…

RIP to DJs, creative multihyphenates, and Nowadays .... deezlinks.com/p/this-so-call…

“Why we work and live in Kerala: Migrant labourers speak.”

Saffronising Ambedkar: Why the Sangh portrays Ambedkar as anti-communist and anti-Muslim

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López Obrador's legacy: By some measures (labor rights, the minimum wage), it is slightly better off; by many others (violence, democratic integrity), things have gotten much worse. A president who betrayed his promises
By ⁦Nicolás Medina Mora⁩ ⁦The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Indian delivery app Swiggy has gamified health insurance, cutting workers’ coverage if they complete fewer orders

New from Varsha Bansal
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The Indian state of Maharashtra is a sugar-producing powerhouse. But a Times and The Fuller Project investigation found that soft-drink makers help finance a brutal system of labor that exploits children and leads to the sterilization of working-age women. nyti.ms/4abwAa3

A personal essay. My ancestors had built a Ram temple. My Ram bhakt father had placed the blame on Hindu fanatics in 1992 & my classmate Rizwan's mother waits for justice. Thanks to naresh fernandes & Supriya Sharma for edits & suggestions tinyurl.com/23m5p6kc

In the twenty-tens, Andrew Norman Wilson had seen his art go viral a few times, and landed four biennials—the start of a promising career. And what precisely does that look like in monetary terms? He paints a stark portrait in our new issue.
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When we enter a temple, the god loses his power!

My Crazy Day Inside Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Yatra | Unfiltered by Samdish ft. Prashant Kishor

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Inside India's Potemkin election - UnHerd

“Narendra Modi, India’s ruler since 2014, will trounce his rivals for a third time. And if the cards appear stacked in his favour, it’s because he owns the pack.” ⁦Pratinav Anil⁩ unherd.com/2024/04/inside…

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Growing up in northern India, journalist Ankur Paliwal (Ankur Paliwal) found the media's portrayal of queer individuals troubling. queerbeat is filling that gap in coverage.

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NEW: Sen. Bernie Sanders on Biden’s Gaza policy: “You cannot continue to talk about your worries about [a] humanitarian situation in Gaza and then give Netanyahu another $10 billion, or more bombs. You cannot do that. That is hypocritical.”

Full interview on tomorrow’s pod.

Why has a political controversy erupted over the screening of 'The Kerala Story' on Doordarshan?

Debdutta Chakraborty Debdutta Chakraborty explains in #TodayILearnt with ThePrint:-

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Despite widespread heatwave conditions affecting almost every state, NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳 has yet to classify it as a national disaster.
There is no central government funding for heatwave action plans.

She’s in the midst of a Girls rewatch, a show she adores and refers to as a “period piece”… “Their outfits feel so heightened,” she says, with the tone of someone considering an ancient civilization for the first time. “Is that what it was like?” gq.com/story/hunter-s…

We talked to Palestinian workers whose underpaid labor provides part of Israel’s low-cost workforce. Their stories of organizing amid ethnic cleansing reveal how this work is a crucial lifeline for Palestinians — now severed by the devastation of war. jacobin.com/2024/04/palest…

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