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Before beginning your year you need to process last year.
You also need to catch up on fabulous cultural products (books, films, art) which you might have missed.
@mukulika.bsky.social and @pragyatiwari.bsky.social help you do this through this episode of ‘The India Briefing’
Listen up!
You also need to catch up on fabulous cultural products (books, films, art) which you might have missed.
@mukulika.bsky.social and @pragyatiwari.bsky.social help you do this through this episode of ‘The India Briefing’
Listen up!
2024 gave us #TheIndiaBriefing and in this end of year episode @mukulika.bsky.social and I talk about the news events that defined the year for us. We also share a long list of recommendations for books, film and art.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
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2024 : The Year That Was
The India Briefing · Episode
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January 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Before beginning your year you need to process last year.
You also need to catch up on fabulous cultural products (books, films, art) which you might have missed.
@mukulika.bsky.social and @pragyatiwari.bsky.social help you do this through this episode of ‘The India Briefing’
Listen up!
You also need to catch up on fabulous cultural products (books, films, art) which you might have missed.
@mukulika.bsky.social and @pragyatiwari.bsky.social help you do this through this episode of ‘The India Briefing’
Listen up!
Most excited to present the latest episode of The India Briefing.
We speak with @amitvarma.bsky.social and Milan Vaishnav on ideas and observations that have helped them make sense of Indian politics and economics.
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@mukulika.bsky.social
We speak with @amitvarma.bsky.social and Milan Vaishnav on ideas and observations that have helped them make sense of Indian politics and economics.
open.spotify.com/episode/65vLw1…
@mukulika.bsky.social
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January 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Most excited to present the latest episode of The India Briefing.
We speak with @amitvarma.bsky.social and Milan Vaishnav on ideas and observations that have helped them make sense of Indian politics and economics.
open.spotify.com/episode/65vLw1…
@mukulika.bsky.social
We speak with @amitvarma.bsky.social and Milan Vaishnav on ideas and observations that have helped them make sense of Indian politics and economics.
open.spotify.com/episode/65vLw1…
@mukulika.bsky.social
2024 gave us #TheIndiaBriefing and in this end of year episode @mukulika.bsky.social and I talk about the news events that defined the year for us. We also share a long list of recommendations for books, film and art.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0AVP...
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0AVP...
2024 : The Year That Was
The India Briefing · Episode
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January 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
2024 gave us #TheIndiaBriefing and in this end of year episode @mukulika.bsky.social and I talk about the news events that defined the year for us. We also share a long list of recommendations for books, film and art.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0AVP...
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0AVP...
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As women become a vote bloc in 🇮🇳, @pragyatiwari.bsky.social discusses how political parties are wooing them with cash & the longer-term issues this raises for the state. #TheIndiaBriefing
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
Women Voters and Cash Transfers in India’s Elections
As women voters become increasingly important in national and state-level elections in India, wooing them with cash gifts seems to have become a common strategy for political parties of all hues. P…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 23, 2024 at 5:14 AM
As women become a vote bloc in 🇮🇳, @pragyatiwari.bsky.social discusses how political parties are wooing them with cash & the longer-term issues this raises for the state. #TheIndiaBriefing
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
Delighted and grateful for this shoutout from one the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
#TheIndiaBriefing
@mukulika.bsky.social
#TheIndiaBriefing
@mukulika.bsky.social
Be sure to check out "The India Briefing"—a new podcast covering politics, economics, and culture for India watchers everywhere. Hosted by longtime CASI partner Mukulika Banerjee and journalist Pragya Tiwari.
December 21, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Delighted and grateful for this shoutout from one the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
#TheIndiaBriefing
@mukulika.bsky.social
#TheIndiaBriefing
@mukulika.bsky.social
For the first time in my adult life I can say this - I read enough this year, averaging a book and a half a week.
Here’s a list of 20 from ‘24.
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Here’s a list of 20 from ‘24.
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December 17, 2024 at 6:13 AM
For the first time in my adult life I can say this - I read enough this year, averaging a book and a half a week.
Here’s a list of 20 from ‘24.
www.instagram.com/p/DDqzj6fyn7...
Here’s a list of 20 from ‘24.
www.instagram.com/p/DDqzj6fyn7...
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‘Crazy ideology’: US companies drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure mounts
https://www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45e0-bf55-89f9d2f76f89
https://www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45e0-bf55-89f9d2f76f89
‘Crazy ideology’: US companies drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure mounts
Scale of the pullback is an abrupt reversal from policies that appeared poised to widely influence corporate ranks
www.ft.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:25 AM
‘Crazy ideology’: US companies drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure mounts
https://www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45e0-bf55-89f9d2f76f89
https://www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45e0-bf55-89f9d2f76f89
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Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.
Nepal’s Prime Minister Makes Significant China Trip
K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.
foreignpolicy.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.
TOMORROW at #ASP23: Paolina Massidda - Principal Counsel of the Office of the Public Counsel for Victims at the International Criminal Court will join Phillipe Larochelle, @avisingh.bsky.social , and others to discuss holding Azerbaijan accountable for its crimes against Armenians.
December 6, 2024 at 7:33 AM
TOMORROW at #ASP23: Paolina Massidda - Principal Counsel of the Office of the Public Counsel for Victims at the International Criminal Court will join Phillipe Larochelle, @avisingh.bsky.social , and others to discuss holding Azerbaijan accountable for its crimes against Armenians.
On this day, the 6th of December, two poems by Gieve Patel.
On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day)
and
The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.
On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day)
and
The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.
December 6, 2024 at 7:23 AM
On this day, the 6th of December, two poems by Gieve Patel.
On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day)
and
The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.
On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day)
and
The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.
In Trump’s America, for Trump’s America, a fund linking culture wars and the markets.
An anti-woke ETF will exclude S&P 500 that incorporate diversity, equity and inclusivity into their hiring process.
www.ft.com/content/f19c...
An anti-woke ETF will exclude S&P 500 that incorporate diversity, equity and inclusivity into their hiring process.
www.ft.com/content/f19c...
New ‘anti-woke’ ETF makes Starbucks its first target
Azoria Partners will hold event at Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Thursday
www.ft.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
In Trump’s America, for Trump’s America, a fund linking culture wars and the markets.
An anti-woke ETF will exclude S&P 500 that incorporate diversity, equity and inclusivity into their hiring process.
www.ft.com/content/f19c...
An anti-woke ETF will exclude S&P 500 that incorporate diversity, equity and inclusivity into their hiring process.
www.ft.com/content/f19c...
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My Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024. Not yours or anybody else's (unless they happen to agree with me.) geneseymour.com?p=3931&fbcli...
Gene Seymour’s Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024 — That Gene Seymour
geneseymour.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM
My Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024. Not yours or anybody else's (unless they happen to agree with me.) geneseymour.com?p=3931&fbcli...
A shoutout to #TheIndiaBriefing on India's best newsletter, The India Cable from the editors of @thewire.bsky.social
Have you heard our podcast yet?
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@mukulika.bsky.social
Have you heard our podcast yet?
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@mukulika.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 11:35 AM
A shoutout to #TheIndiaBriefing on India's best newsletter, The India Cable from the editors of @thewire.bsky.social
Have you heard our podcast yet?
open.spotify.com/episode/7mAq...
@mukulika.bsky.social
Have you heard our podcast yet?
open.spotify.com/episode/7mAq...
@mukulika.bsky.social
Two excellent books on my part of the world.
@iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough.
and
Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.
@iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough.
and
Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.
December 5, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Two excellent books on my part of the world.
@iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough.
and
Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.
@iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough.
and
Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.
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The "rule of law" is not always a tool for justice. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." J. Learned Hand
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Legal Battle Against Trump Was a Miserable Failure
A few victories made it easy for Democrats to forget that the law is just another domain of politics where their enemies enjoy power too.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:56 AM
The "rule of law" is not always a tool for justice. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." J. Learned Hand
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
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Dec 2/3 is the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, at US-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. In Sept, I spoke with Indira Jaising, former solicitor general of India, in Bangkok, at UNDP's business and human rights forum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALU...
Bhopal’s Unfinished Business: The 40-year struggle for accountability
YouTube video by UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum
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December 2, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Dec 2/3 is the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, at US-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. In Sept, I spoke with Indira Jaising, former solicitor general of India, in Bangkok, at UNDP's business and human rights forum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALU...
Excellent episode of the Seen and the Unseen by Amit Varma with @waatcoconut.bsky.social . Perfect appetiser to his brilliant new book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries : The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity.
seenunseen.in/episodes/202...
seenunseen.in/episodes/202...
Episode 405: The Forces That Shaped Hinduism | The Seen and the Unseen
Every simple story about it is wrong: Hinduism contains multitudes. And it went into the directions it did for specific reasons. Manu Pillai joins Amit Varma in episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen…
seenunseen.in
December 4, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Excellent episode of the Seen and the Unseen by Amit Varma with @waatcoconut.bsky.social . Perfect appetiser to his brilliant new book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries : The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity.
seenunseen.in/episodes/202...
seenunseen.in/episodes/202...
I spoke with Joya Chatterji earlier this year at the Jaipur Literature Festival on her brilliant book Shadows at Noon : The South Asian 20th Century. Delighted at its win.
youtu.be/bPmU6Z2ySS0?...
youtu.be/bPmU6Z2ySS0?...
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I spoke with Joya Chatterji earlier this year at the Jaipur Literature Festival on her brilliant book Shadows at Noon : The South Asian 20th Century. Delighted at its win.
youtu.be/bPmU6Z2ySS0?...
youtu.be/bPmU6Z2ySS0?...
On this episode of #TheIndiaBriefing @govindraj.bsky.social helps @mukulika.bsky.social and me make sense of how the US indictment of Gautam Adani impacts the Adani group, and the Indian markets and economy.
Listen here or on Apple Podcasts
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Listen here or on Apple Podcasts
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Episode 5: The Adani Indictment - The Indian Response
The India Briefing · Episode
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December 4, 2024 at 10:23 AM
On this episode of #TheIndiaBriefing @govindraj.bsky.social helps @mukulika.bsky.social and me make sense of how the US indictment of Gautam Adani impacts the Adani group, and the Indian markets and economy.
Listen here or on Apple Podcasts
open.spotify.com/episode/3Kwg...
Listen here or on Apple Podcasts
open.spotify.com/episode/3Kwg...
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Are you India Curious but have no time to digest India's complexity? If so the podcast #TheIndiaBriefing is for you.
@pragyatiwari.bsky.social and I bring you fact-checked analysis of India's biggest stories.
Available for free on most platforms. Please subscribe!
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@pragyatiwari.bsky.social and I bring you fact-checked analysis of India's biggest stories.
Available for free on most platforms. Please subscribe!
open.spotify.com/episode/57IW...
Episode 4 - The Adani Indictment: View from the US
The India Briefing · Episode
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December 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Are you India Curious but have no time to digest India's complexity? If so the podcast #TheIndiaBriefing is for you.
@pragyatiwari.bsky.social and I bring you fact-checked analysis of India's biggest stories.
Available for free on most platforms. Please subscribe!
open.spotify.com/episode/57IW...
@pragyatiwari.bsky.social and I bring you fact-checked analysis of India's biggest stories.
Available for free on most platforms. Please subscribe!
open.spotify.com/episode/57IW...