Shweta Banerjee

Vanier Doctoral Scholar, PhD Candidate, Department of History @UofT. Money, currencies, sovereignty in South Asia 1750 - . @sshrc_crsh

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

@ellen_nye @HarvardHBS @historyatpurdue Many congratulations Ellen! Well deserved.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

India is facing a third year of falling wheat production. The culprit? Heat.

https://t.co/HW1q9e7heV

[Neelanjan Sircar @NeelanjanSircar]

We find 44% of poor (no vehicle) have uncomfortable homes in heat, & 40% of more well-off (w vehicle) need AC/cooler to make home comfortable

Consequences for coping with heat & future energy consumption are immense.

Collab btw Centre for Rapid Insights @Artha__Global @htTweets

[Anumeha @anumayhem]

I went into an emergency "heat ward" in a Delhi hospital. Migrant workers lay unconscious, hit by brutal heat in their work https://t.co/Lv2PPdpOAz

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

@readingkafka @rambletastic Well deserved! Congratulations.

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

"This is an unprecedented heatwave. In my 13 years of working here, I don’t remember signing a death certificate for heat stroke. This year, I’ve signed several."
My piece on the Delhi heat crisis and more.
https://t.co/QJIUdjY4H9

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

The Delhi heatwave is testing the limits of human endurance. Other hot countries should beware and prepare. This event follows hot on the heels of extreme heatwaves across Asia and the Sahel.

Climate scientists have long warned these days would come. https://t.co/vIO4s2hJiS

[The Tribune @thetribunechd]

#TribuneEdit: The struggle is symptomatic of #climatic shifts affecting urban #India. Record-breaking #temperatures, exacerbated by urban heat islands, highlight the urgent need for adaptive measures

#Heatwave

https://t.co/bvr4DIuy8H

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Delhi's Mungeshpur station has recorded 52.3 degrees Celsius, the city's highest-ever temperature today.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Delhi reports record high temperature of 49.9 degrees Celsius

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

A @CSEINDIA study has tracked heat trends in 6 Indian megacities and found some surprising trends: Cities are no longer cooling down at night, writes @NanditaBanerji_

https://t.co/stfcUOps27

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

@DanEricRohde Such good news, congrats Dan! Wishing you all the best.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

JUST IN: X has received a money transmitter license for payment services in 🇺🇸 Utah

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

@onneshaghosh How true!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter. https://t.co/0tuvevUhBs

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

@mostlyeconomics @manipalunipress @ChinmayTumbe Congratulations Amol, looking forward to reading it!

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: BRICS announces new members as Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE

[Shweta Banerjee @BanerjeeShweta]

Emerging scholars do reach out, Dr Rajagopalan’s podcast is a wonderful forum for sharing your work and ideas. #ideas #India

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

Thrilled to continue the young scholar series at the @IdeasofIndia podcast, where I invite academic job market candidates working on India to talk about their research. I have a handful of 30 min slots.

DM/email me your job market paper/ dissertation. List of past scholars 👇🏾

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

A heat index of 158°F (70°C) was recorded in southern Iran today.

Even the healthiest and youngest individuals could not survive this heat for more than 6 hours.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

“The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of #climatechange and a foretaste of the future,” said World Meteorological Organization’s Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas.

Read more: https://t.co/7ztPj06UIv