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baby plum blossom & prose-filled emails

[मालिनी @maliniranga]

Spoke with Ajantha S. + Juned Shaikh on the relationship between caste and capitalism in Bengaluru and Mumbai. We delved into caste networks that remain key to the movement of capital from rural land to real estate, as well as Dalit, labour + slum politics https://t.co/QEBA8h48bC

[🌙 @bambaiyya__]

.@khoyekhayaal and I write about what it costs to bring mobility to the world. Read to know the story of Pinku Kumari and other workers' whose health is sacrificed to create vast profits for companies like Maruti Suzuki, Honda, Hero, Tata and Bajaj. https://t.co/WMqMwIZexn

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

"Among the many ironies of this confused and legally directionless ‘end of Naxalism’, is the fate of those arrested on charges of being Maoist sympathisers. At one end, we have the human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling who has been in jail since 2018, along with the rest of the BK 16 who are out on bail but still suffer from a protracted trial despite ample proof that police ‘evidence’ was fabricated. At the other end, the youth leaders of the Moolvasi Bachao Manch in Bastar, like Raghu Midiyami, Suneeta Pottam and others, have been jailed for over two years under UAPA, along with some other 40 activists at different times. Even simple rights like an operation to fix Raghu Midiyami’s broken finger are being resisted by the NIA. The MBM waged an entirely constitutional struggle, invoking the 5th Schedule of the Constitution and PESA to defend their lands. Evidently a peaceful movement of locals, in the face of an intensified mining push, is now a greater threat to the national security state than even the Maoists."

From @nandinisundar's insightful analysis of the 'end of Naxalism'.

[Ankush/অঙ্কুশ @ankushpal2001]

The Indian state has perfected making the poor wait. I write about ‘temporal citizenship,’ where full urban belonging requires ‘discretionary time,’ which is redistributed from the poor to the comfortable. Read my essay for @frontline_india to know more!

https://t.co/QSoqmfyKTP

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Mumbai built its best public transport where people own the most cars.

Its worst? Where people have no other option.
New IIT Bombay study explains why your commute is the way it is.
🧵 @IndianExpress
(1/10)

[Third Indian Urbanism 🚸 @indianurbanism3]

The more we trace the Indian urban problems to their roots, the more we return back to these damned charts. Always.

No amount of software tracker apps, privatisation or ai will uplift our Indian cities than empowering our municipalities.

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

Urgent: Team from Nazariya at Fatehpur Beri Police Station, Chhattarpur is being threatened by Bajrang Dal, who have surrounded the station. Police not intervening. Trans team members at serious risk.

Need urgent media, legal community support to prevent violence.

(received from a friend, if any lawyer can pls help)

[Rahul @rahulatiitd]

Our brand new paper on bicycling in cities of Accra, Bangladesh and India! (Open Access) https://t.co/SK8QEJRx81

[NBER @nberpubs]

Measuring benefits to households from Mumbai’s new Metro rail system, from Palak Suri and Maureen L. Cropper https://t.co/esCQzYbwBc

[Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya]

Willingness to learn, supporting independent research & data access & regular evaluations of government schemes to make them better are good practices. As a scientist, makes me happy to see policy makers working collaboratively with researchers. https://t.co/b6dWPEJuzh

[Patrick Heller @PatrickHeller1]

The repeal of India's "Right to Work" program (the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) which was the world's largest ever anti-poverty program, is just the most recent example of what I called "retrenchment populism" in my 2020 article "The Age of Reaction."

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

@akhmxt could u please share the link to this piece??

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

incredible read

https://t.co/YxC2uNbyja

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

🚨From Bharat Taxi to state-run mobility apps, Namma Yatri piggybacks on govt platforms

Moving Tech Innovations, the company behind @nammayatri , is tapping central & state govt partnerships - -West Bengal (Yatri Sathi), Odisha (Odisha Yatri), Kerala (Kerala Savaari) & now Union govt's Bharat Taxi (Sahkar taxi)-- to scale nationally as zero-commission rivals challenge its first-mover advantage

@BhavyaDKumar & I report

https://t.co/i5Zem4Q44a

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

https://t.co/ei99gzwcHt

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

tbr but looks so exciting

https://t.co/NhS7dijJiV

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

https://t.co/HJjc5FRDPc

[public transport experimenter 🫐 @pixelmono]

@RohanGigi hi what document is this from? :o

[Rema Nagarajan @RemaNagarajan]

Three states with health indices almost as good as Kerala- Tamil Nadu, J&K, Himachal
What do they have in common?
Early policies focused on social justice, on reducing social inequity +public health
Not letting Delhi dictate health policies, doing what works best for their people

[Maryam Aldossari @maryam_dh]

End of The Line: Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance. ‘One former employee has said that everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently.’ By @alisonkilling @FT https://t.co/0pktL5uyBf