Universities need to be thought as engines of local economies!

Consider this: Indian students in Canada contribute to 0.43% of their per capita income!

Karishma and my piece in Mint today: livemint.com/opinion/online…

Happening today in #Pune

Let’s talk about elections!

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If you’re in Pune next Sunday, please come. We will talk about elections — the numbers,
the politics, the campaigns and how we relate to them!

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Extracted and analysed the Question Hours in the last four Lok Sabhas. Fun insights! Some of it came out in Mint today. Excellent work by my student Shreyas.

LOK SABHA

Spoke at ⁦TEDx⁩ recently.
TLDR: stereotypes against Indians are mostly rooted in colonial literature. We need to write our own stories! youtu.be/XJMD67gXgik?si…

If you’re from Maharashtra and keen on documenting your local cultures, do apply!
(Last date: 24 March)

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#Maharashtra

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If you’re a student from/in #Maharashtra and want to discover, document cultures and stories of your own village/town/taluka/district, apply for 3-month District Fellowship Program at FLAME University! Brilliant opportunity!

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It was a mad fun indeed! Thank you so much Amit Varma for allowing me to cross navigate across disciplinary silos. Refreshing to discuss ideas that matter at such length, in this hyperactive attention-span-deficit world!

Also on Spotify:

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#Pune is the largest non-capital city of India. This is a unique distinction, one that makes it most fitting city to lead Indian public policy ideas. The amazing Pune Public Policy Festival is pioneering step indeed! So proud of my friends organising it.
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Brilliant Roundtable on Cultural Enterprises held at FLAME University, with NICEorg. Inaugurated by Hon’ble Textile Minister Chandrakant Patil (Modi Ka Parivar), and participated by a range of cultural startups, academics and artisans
anil gupta Sanid Dilip Patil Deepanshu Khandelwal KVK Ravindra Sathe

Addressed the officers of UP Census Directorate Directorate of Census Operations-UP, demonstrating powers of LLM models (chatGPT/Bard), importance of data visualisations and what we at FLAME University are doing with MH district data analysis. Such an enriching conversation!

Ritul Kamal

And the show stopper is … diversity!

The need of the hour is ‘genuine’ partnerships, not branches! During my visits to China, I saw many examples:
Tsinghua-Berkeley Schenzen Institute
Hopkins-Nanjing Centre
Univ of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ Joint Institute
Stanford Center for Peking Univ
… and so many more!

Delivered a session on why engineers need to study public policy for the COEP Technological University - COEP Tech leadership team.
(63% of selected candidates in UPSC during 2017-21 were engineers!)

Our data stories from Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and MP elections. Three charts in EPW’s latest issue today!