Sarbani Chakraborty

Social Policy. Postdoc, CPUT/South Africa| PhD, Education, UW-Madison/US| MSW, TISS-Mumbai/IN| Jung nafrat ke khilaaf. Jihaad mohabbat ki.

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9. #intdev #SDGs Lets not obsess over 1 tool, 1 method, 1 set of principles to describe, explain the world, to solve world's mindboggling array of problems & human miseries as an orthodoxy. "If the only tool I've got is a hammer, every problem will appear as if it were a nail".

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How is the politics of caste and region related or not related to the women's reservation bill?

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An invocation of history. Irony sharpened through evidence, and carried, in a restrained smile. https://t.co/4gJkFC1A8O via @YouTube

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However...https://t.co/EkGXjmZWVt

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4. It requires the courage to re-invite the massive capital it once drove away.

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1. The current political insistence that West Bengal’s economic destiny lies solely in small and medium enterprises is not a vision. It is a strategic retreat. By canonizing MSMEs, the leadership is attempting to institutionalize the vacuum left by the flight of heavy industry.

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3. of a broken industrial policy. To prioritize small-scale trade while the ghosts of the Nano plant haunt the state’s investment climate is to mistake a survival strategy for a developmental blueprint. Bengal’s survival requires more than just local circulation.

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Indo-Bangladesh Gangetic Plains Bangla song – an inheritance that exceeds the cartographies of the nation-state. It is a shared cultural and affective archive, carried across histories, rivers, and memories, which no border can sever or contain. https://t.co/KzYfS0b0kh

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2. embedded in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) – an exercise undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI) ostensibly to ensure that all eligible citizens are included in the electoral rolls, while excluding ineligible voters: https://t.co/eOS6rWzepK

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1. Prof. Yogendra Yadav is widely regarded as one of India’s foremost political-economic analysts. The following is his analysis of the forthcoming and distinctive Bengal elections, with particular attention to the politics of inclusion and exclusion...

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@singhabhi A reflective post on ChatGPT is brewing—equal parts curiosity, critique, and questioning, perhaps...:-))

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“He’s at the peak of just not giving a f--- anymore,” said a White House official with knowledge of Trump’s thinking. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a f---. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.”

Amazing work from @natalie_allison @michaelbirnbaum @Cat_Zakrzewski, led by @AmyEGardner

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Kunal Kamra Refuses to Shut-up & Apologise | What it means for Free Spee... https://t.co/iXSeE4yttj via @YouTube

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Smiling is a problem—
a mask, a demand, a trick of survival.
Yet, smile, children...
if and when you can.
Not out of delusion,
nor to affirm a lie,
but because resilience, too,
must have its gestures.
For we know—
it is not a wonderful world, after all.
https://t.co/F78zgCodD9

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5. India’s linguistic uniqueness and the persistent conflicts it generates must be critically acknowledged as defining features of its sociopolitical fabric.

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1. The linguistic tragedy of India is that it has never meaningfully confronted a contradiction–the simultaneous dominance of Hindi in cultural and political discourse and its dismissal as inferior within elite English-speaking spaces.

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4. nor has any other nation so thoroughly embraced a "foreign" language—English—as its “own,” as a "link" language and a medium of elite communication. The paradox is striking––while English has been assimilated as “our own,” it remains a marker of exclusion and hierarchy.