Sahil Mehra

[Yadu @yaducr]

Policy debates celebrate rising female labour force participation but are we asking the right questions?
My new paper challenges the U-shaped narrative and shows why context, norms, and aspirations matter.
Read: https://t.co/REcYFhRsdh

[Yadu @yaducr]

📢 New paper out in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy!

A bottom up view of how gender, social norms, and institutions shape women’s labour outcomes in rural India.
🔗 https://t.co/REcYFhRsdh

[Yadu @yaducr]

The dominant narrative in development economics centers on the transition from rural/agricultural to urban/industrial economies. But is this transformation inevitable across time and space? Read more here

https://t.co/lQHis3cp3O

[Yadu @yaducr]

World Development Report 2024 says Development=Structural Change. Is that so? In this article, we critically examine the Lewisian paradigm, which suggests an inevitable transition of labor and employment from agriculture to the industrial sector.
https://t.co/lQHis3cp3O

[Change.org India @ChangeOrg_India]

2. "The SAU Governing Board, the highest decision-making authority, has not met since 2017 due to political reasons which have paralysed the SAARC. Consequently, the University has no full-time President, Vice-President, or Registrar," says the petition.

https://t.co/420meRhm0v

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

Imagine having a political economist like Snehashish Bhattacharya, microeconomist like Sabyasachi Das, macro economist like Pulapre Balakrishnan, critical legal scholar as Srinivas Burra, sociologists as Ravi Kumar and Irfanullah Farooqi!

What farcical times we live in!

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[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

If someone was to set up an academic institution by hiring all of the currently suspended / resigned academics in India that have been in the news in the last few week / months, it would make for a fantastic institution.
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[Change.org India @ChangeOrg_India]

1. From expelling students & suspending faculty members, to mandating new students to 'declare' that they won't participate in any agitation, an alumnus expresses worry about what's happening at @SouthAsianUni.

@MEAIndia @mabulaish @dhananjayjnu

🧵👇

https://t.co/420meRhm0v

[Sahil Mehra @mehra316]

.@SouthAsianUni @MEAIndia @mabulaish @dhananjayjnu @JagdishChandB11 @devpathak: Save South Asian University: Revoke Ban on Campus Protests, Halt Undemocratic Actions #SaveSAU - Sign via @ChangeOrg_India

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

This issues has recieved national and internal media attention:

https://t.co/TOXLwvo47X

https://t.co/SDQJ1SLWty

https://t.co/TOXLwvo47X

https://t.co/hLbC6HE9LU

https://t.co/ZR077bJUpJ

https://t.co/60WcBvk0xQ
https://t.co/SLIjYRZicW

https://t.co/EkM8L3qZYF

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[sandra elizabeth @sandra_eliza19]

The SAU administration perhaps overestimates the unity of students in the campus . Nevertheless, they’re still afraid that students could potentially organize and question the arbitrariness of their actions.
It’s funny considering that the campus has only a few students left,

[The Deng Excreted by the Cultural Revolution @saamnudaam]

Cool story, does the logo also say to expel students and suspend faculty for no reason?

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

India is dealing w/ a critical issues of supression of academic freedom. Prof
Snehashish Bhattacharya from Econ, along w/ 3 other faculty members, 've been suspended by admin. This comes in the backdrop of them urging Uni admin to constructively engage w/ student protests.🧵

[Rohit Azad @azadrohit]

McCarthyism of the 21st century! Academics in the 1950s in the US were purged from universities for their left-leaning opinions. In SAU, their “crime”- running a Marxist Study Circle! You are in the company of Paul Sweezy, my friends! In solidarity! https://t.co/z5Owh6xZF7

[Sudhir Shrestha @sudhir2751]

I have been taught and, in fact, my thesis was supervised by one of the faculties who has recently faced a biased unjust action from the South Asian University’s administration. 1/5

[Samyak Jain @sjain1595]

SAU suspended 4 faculty members on June 16 and now they are considering challenging the suspension orders in court. Among 15 faculty members, calling to resolve student protest, only 4 were illegally "targeted" for action.

https://t.co/1sTmsEJWMJ

@SouthAsianuni @DrSJaishankar

[Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) @DivDecEcon]

4 faculty members from South Asian University, New Delhi, including an economist, were arbitrarily suspended. This comes in the backdrop of them registering dissent for uni administration's calling police on campus to disperse students protesting for revision in stipends.1/

[Sahil Mehra @mehra316]

What is ailing the South Asian University and how to save it - https://t.co/GfKaaRujDX via @TheLeaflet_in