@PostNL I received Inklaringskosten receipt today for a package sent as a gift from Australia. The VAT has already been paid during purchase (sender has receipts), and in any case it's not an online purchase. Why do we have to pay twice?
My talk on Critical Caste and Technology Studies at Oxford Internet Institute. Twitter, please do the thing and spread the word.
https://t.co/cq78khPxa4
Hoping EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson meets with privacy experts like @EDRi. It's baffling how leaders can refuse to meet with civil society orgs while taking such massive steps!
The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://t.co/Qi1b2E6tB5?
#KeepItSecure#DoBetter
Absolutely delighted to have received thought-provoking questions and feedback on my research on meme culture of the Indian Right Wing at the #bigdatasocialmediareligion conference at Amsterdam!
@conradhackett, associate director at Pew Research Center, will deliver a public presentation on March 31 at the @_knaw in Amsterdam: “Mixed Signals: The Challenges of Measuring Changes in The Global Religious Landscape.”
https://t.co/4tGZfzKwcV - register to attend by ...
@RailwaySeva Thanks for the speedy reply; I hope the redressal is as speedy too! I have sent you the details via DM and would like to hear updates. I'm unable to reach the helpline currently due to shaky network on the moving train!
@brennaartinger I recently heard of Dr. Scherer's appointment at Vrije University, Amsterdam. Their focus is on 'Queering Buddhist Traditions'.
https://t.co/JbtvgxRxX0
Good luck!
Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it. https://t.co/6kHKsl26My
If Frost were writing his dissertation:
... But I have deadlines to keep
And pages to write before I sleep
And pages to write before I sleep!
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#Thesis
...decisions made (or not made) in Delhi, Pune, Seattle, Washington and Oxford.
It was born out of corporate profiteering. And out of totally opaque deal-making in the midst of a pandemic, even as the research and manufacturing were being primed by public money: [2]
India manufactures more vaccines than any other country. So why is it running short of Covid-19 vaccines?
There's no one answer. Instead, I reconstructed the last 12 months and built a timeline of dysfunction. The dysfunction was born of... [1]
https://t.co/tvwuzjNAdz
Undergraduate and grad students in India who are experiencing difficulties with work and deadlines, pls reach out to me. I can help you with assignments and writings. Happy to read your work and offer feedback
Discipline: Sociology, Anthropology. Literary and cultural studies
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Hallmark Christmas movies and then asked it to write a Hallmark Christmas movie of its own. Here is the first page.