“To me, it feels like working in your own grave, while you make your own casket.”
Every morning before his shift at a textile factory in #Nagpur, 30-year old Ashish Narayan, a machine technician, straps a small recording device to his forehead.
For the next several hours, the #camera tracks and records everything he does.
From stitching workers to technicians and machine operators, workers across factories are being asked to wear such devices.
Often, they do not know exactly what is being recorded, where the #footage is going, or how it may eventually be used.
But in many cases, they are rarely in a position to refuse or reduce participation, especially in sectors where jobs are insecure.
They are paid anywhere between Rs 200 and Rs 350 per hour.
This whole exercise is part of a growing global push by AI and #robotics companies to gather what is being called “egocentric data”.
That means 1st-person recordings of human activity that can teach #machines how people perform physical tasks.
Reported by: @imsoumyarendra
Produced and edited by: @NotAboutPrachi
Script and voiceover: @shameenalauddin
This column by @Aakar__Patel about the suffering of Christians after the BJP captured power in Odisha is both moving and anger-inducing. This has to be simply unacceptable.
If you want to understand the background to the current assault on Iran, check out our @EmpirePodUK series on the history of Iran. We did 26 episodes, stretching from the Rise of Cyrus, episode 96:
https://t.co/StTk7oZr1o
To 121, the Fall of the Shah of Shahs:
https://t.co/mUoAPIXkXd
So pleased that Kalpana Sharma, a journalist I admire, reviewed 'In the Beginning there was Bombay Duck'.
Food History of India’s Great Metropolis https://t.co/O4KHd1AcO2
Announcing Talk 305
#MouthfulOfMumbai – A Food History Of The City by Pronoti Datta
Mumbai has been a melting pot of migrant cultures, and each culture has contributed to the city’s culinary heritage. Different communities have populated neighbourhoods and every neighbourhood is a springboard for a sketch on the communities and food cultures with eating establishments either closely or loosely associated with the place, such as Fort for continental food or Kalbadevi for its Gujarati thali. At our Online Talk #MouthfulOfMumbai, writer and journalist Pronoti Datta takes us on a virtual journey through Mumbai’s historic neighbourhoods, exploring how diverse ingredients, dishes and flavours arrived in the city and were reinvented in its kitchens.
📍Sat | 14th February | 6 PM | Zoom
Admission Free.
Register now at: https://t.co/ANcJYvb5tJ
About the speaker:
Pronoti Datta is a communications specialist, writer and former journalist. She’s the author of two books: the novel ‘Half-Blood’ and the recently published ‘In the Beginning there was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai.’
Pic: Pronoti Datta
#KhakiLab #OnlineTalk #TasteOfMumbai #FoodHeritage #CulinaryHistory #MumbaiDiaries #RegionalFlavours #CityOfDreams
Gujaratis have a long history of trans-oceanic trade. Could it be that the reason they have such a dazzling range of farsan is because dry and deep-fried snacks travel well? Here's an excerpt from my new book, 'In the Beginning There was Bombay Duck'.
https://t.co/zE6bOoOhSX
#TheWireTalks | What makes Mumbai’s Food History Different From Other Cities
@bombaywallah speaks to @prettynous on how migration shaped Mumbai’s cuisine, from Irani cafés to community eateries, and how ideas of “native” food evolved in the city.
https://t.co/2EEGwxRFqd
What does it mean to be native?
Something I wrote in @htTweets
re my new book, 'In the Beginning there was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai'.
https://t.co/tEqxaT84Ev
Why Justice Bela Trivedi retired as one of the most unpopular judges in the Supreme Court — Scroll looks back at her controversial near-four-year tenure at the Supreme Court.
https://t.co/J4spfU05DS
By Vineet Bhalla
Are Modi's new criminal laws the equivalent of his notebandi in the judicial sphere? Tearing up old statute book for no reason? Scrapping law sections that Indians got used to over decades. Not adding new resources for over-stretched police, judiciary.
https://t.co/T7uusBSq3O
Both Kejriwal and Sisodia have had multiple bail applications disallowed by different levels of courts ever since they were both arrested. https://t.co/sWxIvxnXqs
Vineet Bhalla examines court orders to find out why the courts have denied bail to AAP leaders, despite weak evidence.
Critically, this result vindicates the remarkable reportage and editorial independence of the rare newspapers and online news platforms that held this predatory regime to account, among them the Caravan, Scroll, the Wire, the Deccan Herald and the Telegraph, Calcutta.