Indian academic institutions weren't always run by spineless individuals. via Prof. Indraneel Dasgupta

Important to fight for the release of Rejaz too! Ace reporting by Sukanya Shantha (so so grateful) m.thewire.in/article/media/…

Thank you Bala for being a voice of reason and courage, yet again. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

As Pulapre Balakrishnan once told me, "What economic history do I even teach when they know neither economics nor its history?"

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NOT this archivist asking me to learn Urdu, so I'm qualified to be Deputy Director (Archives) and can get married soon 😭

barely two hours on a KSRTC bus and I'm already humming :) അനുരാഗഗാനം പോലെ അഴകിൻ്റെ അല പോലെ ആരു നീ ആരു നീ ദേവതേ....

"india's zohran mamdani" singing paeans for the RSS 🤡 spare us the pride-special horrors, please.

can you a trust a man with salman khan on his home screen with matters of life and death? 🥺 [asking for a friend!]

It's the Fourth of July and we're all gonna die.

"Our ability to feel, speak, or act for Gaza is being defused.... If we don't resist, this will be the end of humanity."

PM-EAC working paper when?!

some day, when the history of India's descent into authoritarianism will be written, there will be a special chapter on its economists running fascist propaganda on social media. sab yaad rakha jayega.

An old trick from the playbook, here's how it played out in the case of SAR Geelani/Afzal Guru: from N. Haksar's 'In the Slaughterhouse of Love' in "Framing Geelani, Hanging Afzal", 2007.

Aside: incredibly bold to think IIMs/IITs are independent institutions under this regime. The same ones with a "pure-veg" mess, gaushalas, and partisan faculty? Even an ISI is far from independent.

Shameful. In just over a decade, my alma mater has gone from hosting Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lectures in the college hall to succumbing to majoritarian pressures.

ISTG these stupid liberals will get us killed before anyone. after Vajpayee, it's Uma Bharati's turn to be rehabilitated and beatified. Let's just ignore how we she was literally raised by Vijayaraje Scindia as her protege or her role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

the boy and his midnight reads (grateful for flatmates with an enviable taste in books)

Real. This note from Sandip Sukhtankar's website lives rent free in my head.

meanwhile their friends and colleagues in India, not too long ago.... sab yaad rakha jayega