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he/him Politics @AshokaUniv @LSEGovernment | former Editor-in-Chief @AshokaEdict
Joined August 2019
An underrated part of fighting the good fight is giving yourself a chance to win. @sardesairajdeep is the only liberal mainstream anchor in India. The Caravan shames him for compromising in order to actually win some people back over to the side of sanity. History will be kinder.
🚨Everybody’s Guy, Rajdeep Sardesai In my cover story for @thecaravanindia’s media issue, I chart the star TV anchor’s contribution to the collapse of news that he laments today — his failure to evolve, access journalism, spiking stories, and more:
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New Project! We've launched a fun interview series, where we speak to Behaviouralists from @LSEGovernment and outside, to help you make sense of the messy and complicated world of Politics. Check out our first episode with Florian Foos, on campaigns! https://t.co/0RAIy1YPXH
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We have upcoming episodes with icons like @sarahobolt and a host of other scholars @LSEnews and all over the world. This is a project run exclusively by MSc students @LSEGovernment and your support would mean the world!
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New Project! We've launched a fun interview series, where we speak to Behaviouralists from @LSEGovernment and outside, to help you make sense of the messy and complicated world of Politics. Check out our first episode with Florian Foos, on campaigns! https://t.co/0RAIy1YPXH
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A year ago, today! "Stuck in a Bad Equilibrium": 10 years in, Ashoka grapples with its Liberal Arts Ethos | The Edict
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For @AshokaEdict, we take a look at 10 years worth of data in the Major-Minor report, and chart out the ways in which Ashoka has changed as a University since its inception in 2014, from the batch of @simrin_sirur @AnganaCk to mine, @devanshmittal_ @geetswrites (0/n)
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things could be worse. you could be starting a masters program.
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Will Indians continue to donate as a community, or become more individual? The community-based pattern seems to favour Democrats. And, will the tariff-war force Indian-Americans to think in terms of community in federal donations? The past, pre-alliance era might have answers
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Indians are not a monolith however, with significant variation inside the community based on wealth. Take the Healthcare Professionals of swing-state Florida. Trump can woo individual rich Indians, but not the community at large, and the best organisers of community-wealth
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Which isn't to say there isn't partisan biases among the community. Contrary to popular opinion, Indians remain resolutely DEMOCRAT, with some room for the GOP in Congressional races.
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What cannot remain in doubt, is that Indian-Americans are capable of functioning as a community in American Politics. From giving candidates a leg-up to kickstart their political careers to efficiently organising small-n donations as a community https://t.co/HVHXnVkfQX
@OpenSecretsDC The Indian-American community tends not to have a lot of ultra-rich billionaire donors. Their power comes from organizing: influential "bundlers" host meet-n-greets with the candidate to get other Indians to donate and end up raising millions https://t.co/ACcp3iuXWB
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Some notes from our latest work on Indian-American Political Donations in the 21st century that could provoke interesting conversations on both the Indian diaspora, and their role vis-a-vis the two bickering countries. (1/n) full paper - https://t.co/IVWD961gNU
Trump’s tariffs on India may be partly explained by who funds his politics. Our study of two decades of Indian American lobbying in the US shows a strong, consistent Democrat lean, with Trump-1 scoring among the lowest ever share from Indian Americans (1/n)
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great fun to be indulged by the ever-patient @joyopal and @kkkarnav A nice intro to Indo-American politics that has suddenly become timely
Trump’s tariffs on India may be partly explained by who funds his politics. Our study of two decades of Indian American lobbying in the US shows a strong, consistent Democrat lean, with Trump-1 scoring among the lowest ever share from Indian Americans (1/n)
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Trump’s tariffs on India may be partly explained by who funds his politics. Our study of two decades of Indian American lobbying in the US shows a strong, consistent Democrat lean, with Trump-1 scoring among the lowest ever share from Indian Americans (1/n)
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For 7 days now, the Ashoka Administration has fastidiously ignored the protest happening on its doorstep. A protest for workers' rights, exactly the type of thing taught in our classrooms, yet ignored just outside their walls. #JusticeForAshokaWorkers #AshokaUniversity
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https://t.co/Du60OTOBqC “Everything changes tomorrow”, write Tripura Chamy (UG ’26) and Karandeep Gill (UG ’26), about how @AshokaUniv's support system, which set it apart from other universities is crumbling with the new punitive measures against students.
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"The reason for my celebration..is not to celebrate winning. It’s to celebrate dreaming. It’s to celebrate how week by week, the team that has never won, the team that never wins, the team that shouldn’t win, kept giving me reason to dream" https://t.co/1fDo14I0Tv
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 The air of Anjuna, Goa is warm, rain hovers in the air along with the sounds of Kajra Re. Outside, tires screech as one vehicle pulls up outside Purple Martini and another one departs for Diaz. The...
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David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
If you graduated yesterday, WATCH THIS! the graduation speech we deserved https://t.co/Z9Z3b62oQp
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Was thinking about my 4 years at Ashoka the day after graduation and am still utterly in shock at how unreal it is that I got to do this interview with @sardesairajdeep (incidentally whose birthday it is today!) https://t.co/0UR6410eZq
Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai speaks to Vishnu Prakash (ASP'25) about his new book, 2024 The Election that Surprised India. https://t.co/ztGnGSuy7n
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BREAKING | National Human Rights Commission (@India_NHRC) takes suo motu cognizance of Professor Ali Mahmudabad's arrest. "...prima facie the human rights and liberty of the Professor have been violated" : it observes.
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