Nice of Yogendra Yadav to shout out Tulika, Ektara, Eklavya, Pratham, Katha, Karadi Tales, Tara, Pickle Yolk, Duckbill & Talking Cub today. Always on the hunt for Hindi books for my daughter, and can't wait to get her onto Cycle and Chakmak eventually. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Lol. "It points towards the possibility that the Maharashtra state government may have potentially jumped the gun in announcing its approval of the Tower-Adani plant."

"What if people living in a cross-border urban agglomeration find that their economic incentives are better aligned with others living in the same economic zone across the border rather than with people from distant districts of their own state?" livemint.com/opinion/column…

"PM Modi himself, as I am told by multiple BJP leaders, is still asking party colleagues what went wrong in the Lok Sabha polls." theprint.in/opinion/politi…

Postdoc at the Centre that saved my life! Sciences Po + the Cambridge-Harvard Joint Centre for History and Economics are offering a three-year fellowship starting September 1, 2025, in economic and environmental history. Apply if you fit the brief! Info: bit.ly/4cXWA9p

Grants for publishers to explore South Asian literature in translation (and then publish it!). Apply!

Hundreds of passengers stranded at Kenya's main airport after workers strike over a planned takeover by an India's Adani group. The aviation workers' union opposes plans to lease Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi to Adani group for 30 years. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I just love how this trivia (on the no. of women working in TN's factories) that we discovered while working for a Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) analysis has become almost common knowledge (as is the hope with all our work 😊😊)

"To those familiar with the Jewish Chronicle’s coverage in recent years, revelations that it has published inaccurate and politically motivated reporting will not come as much of a surprise." This is a wild story!

Breaking: Made 'some progress" on border talks with China. 75% of disengagement problems over says EAM Dr S Jaishankar

A few weeks ago, I'd said I don't know if the desi community is prepared for the kind of racism we're going to see during this campaign. A few days ago, there was this - from someone who subsequently accompanied Trump to the debate & then the 9/11 memorial. The tweet remains up.

India's working age population is about to overtake China's. But the size of India's labor force will remain behind China's for the foreseeable future, largely because of low participation of women in paid work. See interesting piece by Ashwini_Deshpande and Akshi here

🧵India-China: NSA Ajit Doval met FM Wang Yi today on the sidelines of BRICS NSA meet. India's readout is here. Both sides took stock of recent efforts to resolve the standoff (2 EAM meetings in July, 2 WMCC meetings in Jul-Aug). 🇮🇳 stands by its position that "complete.. 1/3

First person: Even as a student, Sitaram Yechury’s talent as a leader who built bridges was evident Gyan Prakash on his JNU contemporary who was "quick to laugh", with an easygoing style that "made him a friend to many". scroll.in/article/107323… via Scroll.in

Great chart in Financial Times from their story on the rising numbers of Indian tourists and what it portents for the Indian travel industry. India has ~30m households (~130m Indians) w per capita income of $15k, with high levels of disposable income who speak semifluent to fluent English,

Round 12 of the New India Foundation fellowships are open until 31 December 2024. If you are working on a book-length research project that pertains to post-Independence India, please do apply! You receive Rs 18 lakh and intellectual mentorship >> newindiafoundation.org/nif-fellowships

Congrats Anmol Somanchi , PhD student at Paris School of Economics & Global Justice Coordinator at World Inequality Lab | WID.world, for this well-deserved EEA Award for Exceptional Teaching in Early Career Category parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/anmol-…

Delighted that our book, Migrants and Machine Politics, was co-winner of the Best Book Prize from APSA's Experimental Research Section. MANY thanks to the award committee. Especially happy to receive alongside the Sartori Prize from the Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Section.