D.Muthukrishnan Indeed, Tamil Nadu has been playing the long game, investing in what really matters – brains, health, and ensuring that every girl doesn't just dream about the stars but gets the education to reach them. Their social infrastructure? It's like they've been following a guidebook

Written 12 years(!!!) ago.

From Partition 1947 to Palwal 2024. Sorry, by S H Manto.

“…a ‘good’ genealogy cannot save a bad law, any more than a ‘bad’ genealogy can impugn a good one…” by Arudra Burra (v ⁦Abhinav Sekhri⁩) sociolegalreview.com/post/decolonis…

The Kate Baker in the Genetics department works on Pathogens and the Kate Baker in the Pathology department works on Genetics. I don't understand how anybody could confuse the two.

Ludwig Wittgenstein watched cowboy movies as a mental “shower bath” after a hard day at the coalface of metaphysics. via Financial Times on.ft.com/4dJY2gV

The problem is that history takes no [ ] prisoners. It was what it was. by ⁦Jyoti Malhotra⁩ h/t ⁦पुष्पेशPushpesh Pant⁩ tribuneindia.com/news/comment/i…

A marvellous vignette by ⁦Trung Phan⁩ illustrating how, for strategy, Jobs was the Che Guevara to ⁦Roger L. Martin⁩ Karl Marx. Nb. "I have a proof of this theorem, but there is not enough space in this margin to write it" readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-a…

Scale! ⁦ Gina Raimondo⁩ gets ⁦U.S. Commerce Dept.⁩ to reinvent Leontief’s Input-Output Matrix. Important, yes, but best not to remember where such models started ;-) ⁦Rana Foroohar⁩ in ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/4gfov7I

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM in the 1980′s

who… “went into the smithy of his soul to forge the uncreated conscience of his age”… (by ⁦⁦Ashok Vajpeyi⁩ h/t ⁦Manoj Kumar Jha⁩) indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

"...history was working its ineluctable way; there would be no point, no logic, in holding the past to account..." bit.ly/3H2zPFe via @commentary and h/t tom easton

Very sad news. Pravin Gordhan was one of the greats. One of the four most consequential figures in steering South Africa's public finances away from the shoals in the post-Mandela era. And a wonderful, wise, steely and decent public servant. ft.com/content/5b19ba… via @ft

I used to defend Bill Clinton and the New Democrats as a regrettable but rational adjustment to a conservative age. But I was wrong. They made life worse for millions of people in ways that were often completely unnecessary and cruel.

“Later the cat was dispensed with as unnecessary.” h/t ⁦Madhvi Pahwa⁩ theguardian.com/science/2024/s…

These elites are harder to dismantle than the nobility, he muses. “Nobility had nothing to explain their right to stay in power, apart from their birth. Contemporary elites claim intellectual and moral superiority.” ft.com/content/73338e…

When will we get the first literary treatment of someone getting margin called? And no, before you ask, The Merchant of Venice doesn’t count. Could there be a Jane Austen of Jane Street? ft.com/content/df67fb…

Oscar Wilde’s gripe with socialism (“it takes up too many evenings”) wasn’t entirely facetious. via Financial Times on.ft.com/4d8OgUz