David Graeber wrote this beautiful little essay shortly before he died. It reads like a final wish. "When this crisis is over, let's promise to create an economy that lets us actually take care of the people who are taking care of us." jacobinmag.com/2021/03/david-…

NZ to launch world-first climate change rules. ‘The law will force financial firms to assess not only their own investments, but also to evaluate the companies they are lending money to, in terms of their environmental impact.’ bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Hello. This is your annual reminder that if you’re not of a Dalit location, please don’t write about the cultures we inherit, the foods we eat, and the lives we lead. If you’re a journalist/writer of integrity, you’d know that it is not your place to tell our stories.

Respected President Biden, if we are to truly unite in beating this virus, on behalf of the vaccine industry outside the U.S., I humbly request you to lift the embargo of raw material exports out of the U.S. so that vaccine production can ramp up. Your administration has the details. 🙏🙏

Covid resources list, compiled by The Indian Idiot docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Massive under-reporting of #CovidIndia deaths. Financial Times has a sample.

Remember, not just the rich, but millions of poor (India has the largest number in abject poverty) have been left in the lurch by Modi's policy to buy out for themselves a lifeline at a price that even the richest in the world aren't paying.

As I struggled to deal with the impact of COVID on my family members in India, I got delayed by a day for submitting my reviews for a conference & I got a message from a senior reviewer with the blurb below. My humble request to everyone - pls don't say this to anyone ever! [1/n]

My essay in the Financial Times on the cult of Modi and the unmaking of India is no longer behind a paywall: Do read: ft.com/content/80c18d…

For those who don't know anything about internal struggles of procuring oxygen, hope this grim thread helps. Hospitals have put onus of arranging oxygen on patients. Critical patients are on 24 hour O2 support. A 40-50 litre cylinder will last the night. But refill is a nightmare

Any fresh leads for a ventilator bed in Delhi? (Please share only confirmed leads) #Delhi #HospitalBed #Oxygen #CovidHelp

Yet another major Western news organization embarrassing itself with “both sides” headlines and weak context that implies false equivalence between Palestinians and Israel. But thanks to social media, the news gatekeepers can’t control the narrative anymore.

Or formal education for that matter. There are many forms of knowing/knowledge particularly those that are indigenous or from lived experience that are not valued by the dominant culture (#cognitiveinjustice).

Age 30: starts Amazon with $250K that his parents gave him.

If, in interviews, companies are going to ask job seekers how they improved themselves during the pandemic, asking the company how they supported their employees is fair game.

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed the killing of George Floyd, received a special citation from the Pulitzer Prizes on Friday. nyti.ms/3vdQFaA

Kabul moment!