6 yo: Why can't abuelita have a little dog
Mom: Abuelita has to be careful not to trip over it because it's very dangerous for old people
6 yo: Like fall down
Mom: Yes
6 yo: Like the people who fall down stairs in Korean serials?

Doctor: Tell me about your mommy.
6 yo: My mama is very pretty and very kind
Doctor: So nice. Now tell me about your daddy.
6 yo: My baba has yellow teeth.

How much influence does social media have on India’s ongoing elections?

UMich Professor joyojeet pal discusses its impact.
news.umich.edu/how-much-influ…
International Inst. School of Information Global Michigan

In case you missed our first #OnPointWithTRC expert talk with Kiran Garimella on Disinformation and Hate Speech on WhatsApp and other Encrypted Platforms, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel.
youtube.com/watch?v=BiLUts…

Terms like pro-terror, pro-Hamas are slurs that are now being systematically used to frame protests.

Students who give up the grad walk make a lifetime sacrifice, something their parents may have waited lifetimes for.

They are dissenters who walk the talk, not Twitter gasbags.

The article 'Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation' has been published online in Studies in Comparative International Development. You have full read access:

rdcu.be/dGk6Y

While people are attacking the BJP for the Prajwal Revanna case, the real issue is he got away so long, despite the scale, evidence and circulation.

A reminder of just how many women go through this constantly, and how institutions are so staggeringly complicit.

#OnPointwithTRC Join us on Wednesday to understand the hate machinery active in our WhatsApp groups and how political parties in India use it for gains, esp during elections. Rutgers University prof Kiran Garimella will talk on misinformation and hate speech.
Register: shorturl.at/iqFGW

I am seeking a paid research collaborators for two months to study AI-generated misinformation in India.

If you have worked on creating such misinformation, or have experience studying deepfakes and/or folks who generate such content, please contact me.

I saw this with my 70-year old grandfather at a festival premiere in Mumbai.

Midway, I was concerned the sex & violence would be too embarrasing for him to watch with his teenage grandson.

End of the film, he said 'This film is going to change the way we think of screenplay'

'I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything. Because they're the real losers.'

'Because they just don't know what it's like to really want something....'

'...and get it...'

'... again, and again, and again'

Marc Maron

'Contemporary campaign films are made for digital dispersal, and for audiences who may never watch these films.' It is not just about #Bollywood 'turning saffron'. My essay on #Hindi and #Telugu films on films of this election season. (DM your email id if you want the full text)

You heard the man.

The book is now available for pre-order:
UK (August): waterstones.com/book/the-ident…
US (November): amazon.com/New-India-Nati…

Great statement from Asna Tabassum, the student whose words and presence USC found to be ‘a threat to safety’

Pointed insult

Wife: Mithun Chakraborty is Bengali?
Me: Of course (koi shakk?)
Wife: A Bengali action hero. How Ironic.

The signature that you have made it in academia is when you say after an apparently profound statement 'and so on and so forth' and nobody stops you, much as nobody is sure what it is.

শুভ নববর্ষ!
Happy Bangla New Year!

One of the least appreciated pieces of men's clothing is the Safari Suit. Always bespoke.

derek guy time to bring back the choice of fine clothing from political fixers to bodyguards and dictators..