Counting down to our Decolonizing the Internet conference in Cape Town July 18! We’re putting our heads together w/ 100 incredible change makers - 55% are women, 60% are from the global South, 60% are people of color. Find out more! whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-t… #DecolonizeTheInternet

IIITB is hosting a workshop on Fairwork in the Gig Economy at IIIT-Bangalore with the Fairwork Foundation on July 5, 2018. Will be discussing the challenges of making work fair for platform workers in India with diverse stakeholders. IIIT-Bangalore Fairwork @preetimdlr

When Ireland legalised gay marriage in the referendum, people commented on the radical social shift in the course of a generation: conservative, Catholic country opening up. Our Supreme Court's shift on 377 is even more remarkable. Koushal was 2013. Merely five years ago. (1/3)

“The act of telling the truth is an act of freedom, but it’s also an act of great risk.” Marginalized communities face huge challenges in sharing their knowledge online - including the threat of hostility and violence both online and offline. #DecolonizetheInternet #Wikimania2018

The NCBS #Archives Public Lecture series returns with a talk by Tarangini Sriraman of Azim Premji University. “In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India” tells the story of how proof of identity & entitlement is sought & made in the urban margins of #India.

Here’s a timely follow up to the #decolonizetheInternet conference, @[email protected] on Mastodon ! chronicle.com/article/Archiv…

The NCBS Archives is all set to present yet another fabulous public lecture. BLOCK YOUR CALENDAR for 4pm, tomorrow; Haapus Lecture Hall, NCBS campus.

Never thought I'd author 3 books when I became a writer. It's Pub Day for Through Two Doors at Once. Please share/re-tweet--it's much appreciated. Available at local indie booksellers and at amazon.com/Through-Two-Do… Dutton Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Penguin Random House Emily Canders

After a hiatus, The Intersection is back with new episodes! This week: memories of the recent Mumbai stampede, & the science of crowd management. (Shows like this live & die by listenership. So if you like the Intersection, share it, tell your friends!) audiomatic.in/show/the-scien…

So much respect for Dushyant Dave. barandbench.com/dushyant-dave-…

Thread: The human cost of #Aadhaar (1/n)

This should count among the most brazenly dishonest decisions by this government. The foundation of sensible political funding anywhere in the world is transparency: the public should know WHO funds WHOM and by HOW much 1/ x.com/htTweets/statu…

#Bangalore’s #WaterCrisis looms large and it is critical to understand the history of #water in this landlocked city in order to better prepare for the future. NCBS Archives present "Tracing Bengaluru’s Water History" - a public lecture by Seema Mundoli. 20 March, 2018 | 2pm

Back from a two year reporting break. For Undark Magazine and David Corcoran I write about the team tying together the pieces of the Parkinson’s puzzle: undark.org/article/decodi…

BLOCK YOUR CALENDAR for 2pm Tuesday 20th March, when the NCBS Archives present the first of a monthly talk series. Tomorrow we revisit the history of Bangalore’s lakes with Seema Mundoli of Azim Premji University. Don’t miss it!

#mitgrandchallenges keynote livestream on digital access, curation & preservation by Anasuya Sengupta of @[email protected] on Mastodon starts now. Tune in! grandchallenges.mit.edu/#livestream

Everything is terrible but my cousin’s 9-year old daughter Alice has been quietly and masterfully slaying the The New Yorker’s caption contest and it’s pure delight.

Major kudos to Usha Ramanathan, Shyam Divan, Gopal Subramanian, Arvind Datar, Meenakshi Arora & the strong legal team, for challenging this at the highest bar, the right to life. Gautam Bhatia Prasanna S SFLC.in for opening up justice & those who trended what needed trending. x.com/gautambhatia88…

The democracy is many things—bewildering, inspiring, chaotic, empowering, frustrating, meaningful. Occasionally, it’s also cute. Karnataka, 2018.

#Bangalore - head to National Centre for Biological Sciences tomorrow after the #KarnatakaElections2018 result to hear #IndiraChowdhury on why postcolonial archive must be different from colonial archive at 4pm. #archives #History