What role do informal healthcare providers play in our health system? Tanuj Luthra writes a brilliant article based on his fieldwork where he is trying to understand the dynamics of IHPs in Delhi. #publichealth Dr PV Ramesh Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ healthiswealth nivarana.org/2023/06/10/inf…

Men who travel in vehicles they receive in dowry are complaining about free bus rides for women.

Or in Comparative Politics, where “ethnographic observation” constitutes the time I spent in the field to oversee others running my experiment

I spoke with Dr. Chaturvedi about her new book. We discussed the ‘exceptional-normal’ case of Kerala, the violent heart of representative democracy, and how the law depoliticizes political violence in India. Do listen! NB South Asia 📚 Duke University Press sptfy.com/OKl9

Great to see this being called out, however, this is hardly just an Economics problem. The sheer arrogance of playing god over ‘subjects’ that can hardly give informed consent is symptomatic of experimental research. It’s also the gold standard for Poli Sci research in the West.

Can you guess what happens when you *deliberately* and selectively constraint the liquidity available to some of the most impoverished workers for an experiment they did not directly consent to participate in? … … … Sometimes the answer is don’t do it just because you can.

Listen to my conversation with Dr. Narayanan about anthropocentrism as "ideology, the dairy-beef continuum in India, tensions around beef as casteist resistance, and rescuing animal rights from Hindutva. open.spotify.com/episode/7ApmRv… Yamini Narayanan NB South Asia 📚 Stanford Press

Long read: India’s Muslim politics is in flux. The once-important ulema are now on the margins of this churning—Hindutva has pushed once-visible Muslim clergy behind scenes & underlined its credibility crisis. theprint.in/politics/india…

YashRaj films captured this in 2013 with Shuddh Desi Romance. Live-in relationships are thriving across India’s small towns. And so are the challenges, esp for interfaith couples. I deep-dive into how small-town India navigates love, landlords & the law: theprint.in/ground-reports…

Why economists should refrain from making sweeping historical arguments, based on sophisticated calculations, when using statistics or data that rely on flawed, false, or misunderstood evidence from the past : a thread (1) 🧶

Listen to my conversation with Dr. Malik on her new book where we discuss how party instability engenders political violence, limits of voter sanctioning in Kenya, shifting modalities of party violence in India and much more open.spotify.com/episode/2LnhK9… @aditimalik_ NB Political Science

Hello dears, long time. Have been doing some video essays/lectures/rants on YouTube recently I'd love for you to check out. This on Kohli and wondering when a rivalry ends... youtu.be/YXXGdvP6k6Y?si…

Frequently, I’ve come to regret things I’ve said. This, from 2001, is not one of those times: