Anoop Kumar

Professor of media and politics. As a teacher and researcher, I know, I can be wrong; but available evidence suggests this is how it is now (ouden mallon)

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

@DivaJain2 The real problem is politicization of midday meals. It has to be based on what people want. We know there are many ways to get essentialproteins. Food is very personal. If the parents want eggs they public opinion and local elected leaders need to work with education officials.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Shimla, Himachal Pradesh: Local Tibetan Tenzin Chemi says, "...Today is His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's 91st birthday. We (Tibetans), globally, especially in India, are in exile. We are honoured to celebrate his birthday every year... he's very important to us, and he's a peace promoter... for us Tibetan people, he is our guru, our kind of a god, an avatar..."

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

“Third Worldization” is doing a lot of unearned work in your post @dhume. The framing assumes uniform rule enforcement was ever a First World virtue, rather than a First World “performance.” It wasn’t.
Selective enforcement, backroom deals, and rules bent for the powerful have always been how global institutions actually functioned, be it in trade bodies, international financial institutions, sporting federations, or the UN Security Council.
The difference was presentation. It was dressed up in procedure, in language of fairness and merit, in the theater of impartiality.
The lipstick has come off. The pig underneath was always the same pig. What’s changed isn’t the behavior of power, it’s the visibility of it… and that visibility now reaches people who don’t have the vantage point of having sat inside the room. You don’t need a privileged seat at the table anymore to see how the table was always tilted. That’s not decline. That’s exposure.
Calling this “Third Worldization” inverts the story. It preserves the myth that the rot is a contamination arriving from elsewhere, rather than a feature the system had all along and can no longer conceal.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

This is seriously funny. @realDonaldTrump is the Super Referee

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Fascinating take on US demand to suspend the red card. This is obviously the location of the event. I doubt this would have happened if World Cup was in Europe, Asia, or elsewhere.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

@ShashiTharoor @DalaiLama 🙏🙏 Kundun

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

@dhume You are correct. The role of military dictatorships in South Korea and Taiwan is interesting to look at.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Think like this, India's elite have always had a relatively better access to infrastructure in the metros. Now we are seeing the same being made available to the rest in the hinterland. One just has to a take a flight on Indigo to second tier cities and look at fellow passengers to understand what this massive infrastructure push is all about.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

@dhume Absolutely he firmly believes in this sort of grandeur for his presidency. The only problem is that for signficant portion of Egyptians this uplifta self-esteem; Americans do not need this type of symbolism to boost their self-esteem.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Not sure if it is "belittling"...in the international affairs 'realism' demands accepting the hierarchy of nations but humanism demands equality of dignity of all nations. It is not as if Kim was handing the award. Look at how during Covid India helped very small nations with vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Indeed Indira Gandhi, even Nehru despite his limitations on strategic thinking, never ceded ground to the opposition, including Jan Sangh and the global Marxist critics in India, on nationalism. Nationalism is the fulcrum on which BJP's hegemony rests. Cong needs their own alternative nationalism.
https://t.co/7EEj7waH2R

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Happy July Fourth on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Enjoy Frank Sinatra'' iconic song The House I live In.
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[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

It was stunning. Cape Verde showed character and belief in themselves. They came from behind twice to force extra time. But a 111th-minute own goal handed the three-time winners a 3-2 victory.
@FIFAWorldCup @fcfcomunica

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

This is what the beautiful game is all about.

A young Cape Verde fan shows love to his team after the hard-fought battle with defending Champions Argentina in the Round of 32 🇨🇻

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

@captgouda24 Yes railroad helped BUT famine were not perennial before colonialism. Railroads addressed a the problem of famine wad created by land revenue of the East India Company.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Alex Karp @PalantirTech Squak Box interview shows why one of the futures of AI is public utility models where everyone's proprietary data is protected by law. The current tokenization based frontier models of @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI rely on expensive compute, lack data sovereignty, and protections for IP.
https://t.co/2thKkdIYt2

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

The argument is compelling if looked at from perspective of who has the most powerful compute capacity. But this highend compute capacity is not needed for most applications. We are likely to see is context and need-based AI models and compute. Importantly in India we will likeky see AI as a public utility. The analogy is block chain and UPI in digital finance.

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

A conversation with ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane for the @voxeu CEPR podcast on global imbalances and the challenges they pose for the global economy. Thanks to Tim Phillips for hosting the discussion.
🎙️ https://t.co/0R0rWigHDM

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

Yes it does but I think it is not because of China. India has learned the hard way that it has to have multialignment and self-reliance when it comes to the strategic threat from China. Indian information technology sector is deeply enmeshed with the US both in human resources, data sources, and compute.

[Anoop Kumar @kumarcsu]

The argument is compelling if looked at from perspective of who has the most powerful compute capacity. But this highend compute capacity is not needed for most applications. We are likely to see is context and need-based AI models and compute. Importantly in India we will likeky see AI as a public utility. The analogy is block chain and UPI in digital finance.

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

Many Indians would like to see India emerge as a third technology pole to rival the U.S. and China. When it comes to AI, this ambition appears increasingly out of reach. [My take]
https://t.co/3Uwb5otODZ