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Pierre Bourdieu called our ability to naturalize any part of our lives (including oppression) as "just the way things are," never even realizing it can be otherwise, "a wonderful instrument of ideology, much bigger and more powerful than television or propaganda"

"Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered" Interesting development. (It is crucial to understand that foreign money is usually not needed inside a domestic economy.) on.ft.com/4lIt3G5

It's unfortunate that national media isn't buzzing & clamouring about the removal of 51 lakh voters from 1 state especially when the country has seen the kind of religious, caste profiling BJP has been up to in matters of citizenship, social affairs & governance in past 11 years.

That's 5 million voters. Most likely to be from vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Smacks of legalized exclusion, much as the US did with black voters in the 19th century

Our whole urban aspirational upper middle class eco system cannot even survive a single day without these workers and yet the hate, intimidation and unfair detention ongoing. Considering all this harassment, Gurgaon and its residents deserve to sink in garbage

🚨‘Buried 100s of bodies’: WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS MASS KILLING OF SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS IN INDIA Former worker at revered #Dharmasthala temple say he buried many killed women and girls, victims of sexual assault What's Happening in Dharmasthala—Al Jazeera English aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22…

Here is a story on Maharashtra's resistance to Hindi from Class 1. How the issue has a possibility to reshape the socio-political scenario of the state and how things could go beyond the Maharashtra borders. This issue. Frontline Do buy and read. Feedback awaited.

Meanwhile, India's PLI-based plan to capitalize on business supply chains relocating from China, and increase manufacturing share in GDP to 25% has failed. Over the last five years of the PLI scheme, manufacturing actually fell from 15% to 14% of GDP. thehindu.com/business/Econo…

To revive manufacturing sector on the East Asia model, India needs to overcome a deeper political economy constraint: the entrenched alliance of a rentier political elite, a co-opted professional middle class and oligarchic big business. Wrote about it. telegraphindia.com/opinion/creati…

Nanny state for the rich, "aatmanirbhar" for the poor.

New research published by the Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Important story by Alishan Jafri for The Wire In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali m.thewire.in/article/commun… via @thewire_In

1000s of migrant workers are fleeing the city. They are going back to Assam and West Bengal. Police say they are not being detained but just held in “holding centres.” Somehow, “Gurugram city is getting dirty” gets more media attention and public outrage.

We didn't speak out against that ghastly camps in Assam and now they are building quasi camps everywhere. I cannot hate those Delhi liberals who vociferously campaigned for NRC in Assam enough i hope you all pay for your sins one day

Pleased to serve as a special editor alongside Rahul Verma for an issue on the 2024 national election for Indian Politics & Policy. In the issue, we seek to interrogate how the results shift our theoretical understanding of Indian politics. Issue: ippjournal.org/volume-5-numbe…

Reviewed three imp recent books on Muslims & Indian state by हिलाल अहमद Hilal Ahmed Amar Sohal and Pratinav Anil for IPP journal. They variously explore evolving state patterns of incorporating Muslims, and agency of Muslims in responding to state strategies. ippjournal.org/uploads/1/3/6/…

Thanks Asim Ali for this thoughtful analysis ippjournal.org/uploads/1/3/6/…

Hot off the press. I am delighted to share my latest article 'The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi'. Hopefully the article will help us move beyond a narrow understanding of landfills as 'eye sores', often portrayed by int. media. 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…