Rahul Basu

Part of @goafoundation, @thefutureweneed, @goenchimati.

[Rahul Basu @rahulbasu]

Free download of "Minerals are a Shared Inheritance: Accounting for the Resource Curse".
#OOTT
EXIS paper where Scott Pegg & I argue that we need a paradigm shift from "windfall revenue" to "shared inheritance" & a fix to an error in government accounting.
https://t.co/f7ntZQODrV

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Sports betting is a scourge.

Legalization reduced food sufficiency by 2.1% among working-age adults without a college degree, especially during the NFL season.

That translates into an estimated 284,000 additional food-insufficient households in 9 states.

[Nakul Singh Sawhney @nakulssawhney]

Newsclick was shut down. Journalists lost their jobs and were hounded. As always, the Godi media declared they were ‘anti-national’, ‘China funded’ etc. Will the state be held accountable for all the trauma, financial losses and disrepute this organisation and their (1/2)

[Rahul Basu @rahulbasu]

@Punit_Pania @sidagarwal And here's how mining should be managed
@goafoundation @thefutureweneed

[bhupendra chaubey @bhupendrachaube]

So very true. The “Republic of Uncles “ had really become a problem too large for India. From colony what’s app groups to walking groups in parks, this desire to tell off the younger lot is downright silly. We often don’t talk back at them out of sheer respect, but I am always amazed by their usage of the term mentioned here. “ Let me tell you “. @AdvaitaKala @rajivtuli69 @drnigam15 @TVMohandasPai @RGVzoomin

[Rahul Basu @rahulbasu]

I guess he could change countries. I would in his shoes

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

This is a brutal, performative way of telling Sarfaraz that he isn’t wanted, that he can score thousands of runs in 1st class cricket but they won’t matter because Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir don’t like him. Again, why?

[Rajneeti Tadka 🌶️ @RajneetiTadka]

एक विदेशी औरत।
पति की लाश टुकड़ों में मिली। सास गोलियों से छलनी।
फिर भी इस देश को नहीं छोड़ा।

Cambridge। एक भारतीय लड़का। एक इतालवी लड़की।

दोनों अपना खर्च खुद चलाते थे - restaurant में काम करके।
Rajiv Gandhi PM के बेटे थे। चाहते तो किसी भी मशहूर लड़की से शादी होती। उन्होंने प्यार चुना।सबके सामने हाथ थामा।

90% लोग जाति, धर्म, दहेज का बहाना बनाकर किनारा कर लेते हैं। Rajiv ने नहीं किया।

Sonia जी ने Western culture छोड़ा। भारतीय संस्कार सीखे। सार्वजनिक जीवन में पल्लू कभी नहीं हटा।

पहले सास की गोलियों से छलनी लाश आई। फिर पति के टुकड़े मिले।

Sonia जी इटली वापस जा सकती थीं। नहीं गईं।

PM बन सकती थीं - Congress ने कहा आइए। नहीं बनीं। कुर्सी Manmohan Singh को दी।

जिस देश में सत्ता के लिए महाभारत होती है वहाँ एक औरत ने मिली हुई गद्दी लौटा दी।

Western culture में पली जहाँ पति के जीते जी दूसरे affairs आम हैं उस महिला के चरित्र पर एक भी दाग नहीं।

यही वो विदेशी हैं जिन्हें BJP ने सबसे ज़्यादा गालियाँ दीं।सबसे ज़्यादा लांछन लगाए।

आज तक एक सवाल का जवाब नहीं दे पाए इस विदेशी ने इस देश को क्या नहीं दिया? नफरत फैलाना आसान है। यह त्याग करके दिखाओ।

In the Pic : U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi in The Yellow Oval Room during a state dinner, Washington, D.C. June 12, 1985

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

At some point Indian cricket will acknowledge the enormity of what the selectors did today.

Three months after SKY led lndia to a T20 World Cup title, they dropped him from the next T20I squad. He never lost a series or tournament as captain.

So ruthless that it feels unIndian.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Cricket gyaan: India A squad for Sri Lanka: NO Sarfaraz Khan yet again ?? Is he not even good enough now to play for India A? Coach Gambhir @GautamGambhir has rightly said that players deserve a long run. The only one who hasn’t got that benefit is Sarfaraz . 6 tests with a hundred and 3 fifties and a first class average of 64. Is there more to it than meets the eye? Hope @imAagarkar who’s done a fine job as chairman of selectors will resolve the puzzle. @BCCI

[Rahul Basu @rahulbasu]

@gauravsabnis How does the money laundering work?

[Varsha Torgalkar @varshasuman]

Riyazuddin Mansoori. Plz read this name again. He saved eight lives in Delhi hotel fire.

Mansoori n his son Arman, took out 20-25 mattresses from his shop n kept outside window of the hotel where fire broke out. So that people stuck inside could jump.

Eight people could save their lives because of Mansoori family. He didn't think about loss of a few lakhs of mattresses.

He himself might don't want to boast. But this is for everyone who try to criminalise every act by Muslims.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

Punjab Secures Rank 1 in Govt Schools, a Massive Jump from Rank 27: — NITI Aayog

[Malcolm Reavell @malcolm_reavell]

@clintballinger

[محمد سلمان ‏فارسی @AlFarsi1201]

India’s First Lynching Of Muslim By Hindu Rashtra Sena.

12 years ago today, Mohsin Shaikh, a 28 Y.O IT professional from Pune, was lynched while returning home after Isha prayers.

Identified as Muslim by his beard, kurta & skullcap, he was attacked by a mob linked to HRS amid+

[Rachel Chitra (David) @rachelchitra]

1/10 India's deadliest aviation disaster - the Air India 171 crash, killed 260 people. But it didn't just take lives, it also took down people's reputations with it - one pilot was labelled suicidal, the other panic-stricken. But evidence shows neither were.

In my in-depth, long form investigation for @Caravan, I use the plane's satellite transmissions, maintenance records and internal correspondence for a decade between Air India and Boeing -- to show it was engine computer FADEC that was guilty and not the pilots.

At around 08:08:44 UTC, the plane's computer FADEC commanded a fuel cutoff and this is the story of how and why it did so.

[Sarcastic. @Sarcaztick]

So they used to bury their dead, eat beef and also used to have toilets… hmmm

[Peter Turchin @Peter_Turchin]

The Obsidian Mirror (“A Map of the Future’s Past”)
https://t.co/7RrAFf68Bi
is based on an interesting (if somewhat mind-bending) idea: looking back at the present from a point of view in an imagined future of 2100. I learned about this blog because it discussed my post, “Is Ukraine-Russia War Entering the End Game?”
https://t.co/NEJIIzaowV

See “A Calculus of Dust”: https://t.co/Y5UL6SDIXg

The Obsidian Mirror started by praising me (“His analysis is precise, data-driven, and ultimately correct in its narrow prediction”) but then the tone quickly turned critical:

“Through the Hindsight Filter, however, we see the author’s tragic blind spot. Turchin believed he was modeling the end of a single war. In reality, he was documenting a key data point in the terminal decline of the entire Legacy Nation-State paradigm. He meticulously charts the growing pressure within the Ukrainian “steam engine”—the rising popular resistance to conscription, the unsustainable casualty rates—but interprets it as a localized, containable explosion. He could not see that the engine itself, the very concept of a centralized state fueled by mass mobilization and abstract national identity, was becoming obsolete.”

I can only assume that the coming catastrophe of the 21st century was (or is it “will be”?) so complete, that the massive corpus of my work on state breakdown (five books including most recently End Times, perhaps 100 academic articles and even more popular press articles covering our results) — it all was lost to future historians. Only this one blog post survived. 😟

[Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন @derekobrienmp]

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN BENGAL The Lok Sabha Leader of the second largest Opposition party @AITCofficial went to visit the family of a person murdered by BJP in post poll violence. @abhishekaitc was lynched and attacked by a few BJP supporters. Life at risk. Where are the police ? Why was security withdrawn on the day of counting ? Let the Home Minister answer

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Wow. So will Durga Puja this year also be off the roads?

[Rehna Raveendran @Rehna_AntiCaste]

Do you remember the movie Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway?
Indians were bashing Norway, Norwegian Child Welfare Services for their policies on child protection citing Indian culture and cultural differences.

The same Indians are today silently watching a group of Brahmin men chanting Hanuman Chalisa against the legal protection given to Children from sexual exploitation. A Dalit child is reportedly assaulted within the premises of temple by a Hindu Brhamin priest, but India isn't outraged against Pedophiles as much as it did against Norwegian Child Welfare Services.

Norway cannot defeat India in human rights abuse, credit goes to India's indigenous hellhole of casteism.