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Rishi Majumder @rishimajumder.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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!
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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...
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2024 : The Year That Was
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LSE South Asia Centre @lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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...
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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…
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Delighted and grateful for this shoutout from one the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to the study of contemporary India. #TheIndiaBriefing @mukulika.bsky.social
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/12/2024
‘Crazy ideology’: US companies drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure mounts www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45…
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‘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
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 06/12/2024
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.
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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.
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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.
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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.
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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...
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New ‘anti-woke’ ETF makes Starbucks its first target
Azoria Partners will hold event at Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Thursday
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Gene Seymour @geneseymour.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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...
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Gene Seymour’s Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024 — That Gene Seymour
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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.
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avisingh.bsky.social @avisingh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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Bhopal’s Unfinished Business: The 40-year struggle for accountability
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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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…
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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?...
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century | Joya Chatterji with Pragya Tiwari
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pragyatiwari.bsky.social @pragyatiwari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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Episode 5: The Adani Indictment - The Indian Response
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Mukulika Banerjee @mukulika.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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Episode 4 - The Adani Indictment: View from the US
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