Pronoti Datta

Communications at Dalberg | Formerly The Daily Pao, The Times of India, Time Out | E: [email protected].

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

“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

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

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.

[Avshesh Chauhan / अवशेष चौहान @AvsheshC]

Reading is a passport to countless adventures
— Mary Pope Osborne

#nowreading ( @prettynous )🌱🌸

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

This season of Empire Pod is absolutely fantastic.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

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

[Teesta Setalvad @TeestaSetalvad]

P.A.T.H.E.T.I.C

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

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

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

@patralekha2011 Hi, checking if I missed your email?

[KHAKI Lab @KhakiLab]

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

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

@patralekha2011 Hi, you can email me at [email protected].

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

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

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

Had a great conversation with fellow Bombay lover @bombaywallah about my new book on the city's food history.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

#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

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

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

[manjula narayan @utterflea]

This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by @FrankAmes5 , @prettynous and @etteth

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

Looking to reach out to journalists covering UNGA and Climate Week. If you're attending, please get in touch!

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

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

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

RT @DalrympleWill: What sort of democracy ransacks bookshops? The Israeli police just pillaged my friend Mahmoud Muna's wonderful bookshop…

[Pronoti Datta @prettynous]

Important piece on the events in Sambhal.
https://t.co/F1EZg8dJRQ

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

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

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

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.

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

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.