Deepali Srivastava

#SocialJustice, #ClimateChange, #AntiWar Dr #Ambedkar. Tweets in own capacity, RTs not endorsement etc. X still the best way to keep in touch with India (alas).

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

Unbelievable but true, signed a book contract today on #AmbedkarJayanti2025 proposing to discuss how Dr A confronted the complexity of competing societal interests over access to resources, thus offering distinctive lessons for charting a climate-just future. #JaiBhim

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

Maybe
@abhijeet_dipke
& co know how Mamdani went from Unknown to Mayor in record time, largely thanks to vertical videos on Insta, TikTok. The pundits on X had no idea and the two-party establishment no clue what to do.
Just saying! Or bad analogy?

[Reuters @Reuters]

India's 'Cockroach' youth movement founder arrives in New Delhi to protest Modi https://t.co/UUVYMOxogu https://t.co/UUVYMOxogu

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Four decades of satellite observations reveal that mangrove forests globally have recently shifted from net loss to net gain, with reduced degradation and continued regrowth and expansion, suggesting early signs of conservation success.

Learn more this week in Science: https://t.co/5vaIm0TbTo

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

Large protests against America’s ultra-elite is the best news one can read on #WorldEnvironmentDay

[Acyn @Acyn]

A drone view showing a protest in Albania against a luxury resort development planned by a company linked to Jared Kushner

📸: REUTERS/Florion Goga

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

“The ideological transition from secular nationalism to Hindutva is easier than one would imagine. It simply requires a significant majority of Hindus to reject the framing of themselves as “tolerant” and start seeing themselves as historically aggrieved victim.”

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

As far as rebuttals go 👏
Considers historic baggage (e.g.the
caste-blind positionality of the old Congress nationalism that erased caste violence) regional/linguistic differences (limits of of UC Hindi speaking Hindu identity) as opposed to “petty leadership irritation”.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

What Ramachandra Guha Gets Wrong About the Congress

@sarayupani✍️
https://t.co/WYiDT9fj3M

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

So people actually like hearing from Hunter (and Jill) Biden?
🤦‍♀️

[Forbes @Forbes]

Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former President Joe Biden, has stepped back into the public eye with a series of attention-grabbing social media posts.
Read more: https://t.co/9D0YXSROBg
Photo: Samuel Corum via Getty Images

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

@ShoaibDaniyal A direct consequence of caste system, untouchability and ritual purity.

[Gabe Einhorn @EinhornGabe]

NYC has more bodegas than Walmart has stores in the entire United States.

13,000+ bodegas.
4,600 Walmarts.

The bodega is the only retail format that survived Amazon, COVID, and rising rents.

Tell me where else in America you can get a sandwich, a phone charger, a lottery ticket, and life advice at 3 AM.

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

The road that divides the upper-middle class and their civic experience from the working people that make it possible, has hardened into a border. It was once much more porous than it is now.

(Yes, privatization/neolib made cities unbearably cruel).

https://t.co/aT6FWdnnmV

[puzhu @PPuzhu]

The irony considering who is embarassing India these days.

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

@harsh8848 Colonial India in general? Or Ambedkar. Some of his most incisive economics challenge the populism of Swadeshi too.

[Harsh @harsh8848]

Ab samajh mein aaya US Ambassador RBI governor se kyon mila tha.
Viceroy ka title revive karo.

I was reading Ambedkar’s writing of Rupee and RBI and certainly it appears that colonial India had better sense of self autonomy than vishwaguru India.

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

How best to understand the extent of economic crisis facing India?

[The Wire @thewire_in]

RBI Denies Report Saying it May Have Sold Gold, Questions Remain

A Bloomberg analysis that earlier claimed the RBI likely sold gold reserves worth roughly $12 billion in the two weeks through May 22, while buying $7.5 billion of foreign-currency assets.

https://t.co/uRrc9nqEln

[Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman]

Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating a resort project linked to Jared Kushner on the island of Sazan. Affinity Partners wants to turn the coastal wetland into a huge resort. Citizen and environmental groups are protesting the project.
https://t.co/rJVBlsqn3j

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

@NotyourVivek @harsh8848 The same class that worships IVY league type credentials shut him out from the field of economics. Irony is that much of what he was proposing then could address India’s problems today too.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Pope Leo and other Christian thinkers have captured the gravity of the AI revolution in a way that many secular thinkers have not, @Tyler_A_Harper argues. https://t.co/iWqFyCQrMZ

[Siya✨ @kataraesque]

Entitlement and privilege minus the social consciousness that is encouraged in first world countries. Make them diaspora and they become "minority POCs" and their inherent privilege is ignored

[Deepali Srivastava @deepalisriv]

Reminded of @AnandWrites’ analogy that the Epstein horror is like India’s honor killings. Everyone knows it happens and no one does anything about it.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

It's hard to miss that the Financial Times is discussing oligarchy and socialism in the US in calm, intelligent manner while the New York Times is doing gen*cide propaganda and deep dives into Graham Platner sexting.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

'Mornings and nights no longer exist': A day in the hottest place in India https://t.co/XTSdkktCOa