joyojeet pal
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A slide from one of our talks which highlights exactly this. The new requirement for legitimating what counts as a public intellectual is whether they are also an influencer. In time, this will be the new metric, not citation count.
I write about how the Public Intellectual is being replaced by influencers, podcasters & dialogue as infotainment today. As academics remain in jails, media switches to podcasts/reels/TikTok & public universities crack down on events, something’s changed:
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Appreciating a fellow historian: my column in @ttindia
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I must note that Dr Khalid is one of many fine, upright men and women, who are languishing in jail under dubious charges hastily filed by the police under orders from their political masters
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"when a science or commerce guy criticises top humanities and social science scholars, you know how mediocre they are in their own fields; and the vice-versa"
When Amartya Sen won the Nobel for Economics, many of his ideas, and less technical essays, started coming down from the high academic world to common readers. After casually flipping through them, a friend of mine, an IITian, and hence considered brilliant by everyone (including
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I penned this piece with @Rathod_Sachi on caste, climate, and labor migration from Bihar to Bengaluru for a new magazine that platforms anti-caste writing and multimedia work. https://t.co/RVpWmyAvce
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Here is a link to the piece (which also links to the older piece about Chandrachud). You can pretty much look up accounts that drove the attack on Chandrachud in 2023 and see what they were saying about Gavai. Shoe thrower has some serious friends. https://t.co/J6vDCNyUmn
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In 2023, the Twitter API was available, we were able to do fine-grained analysis on attacks themes. Now, we can no longer get large scale data for systematic analysis, but it would be a fantastic surprise if this were coincidental. Take a look:
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In 2023, we did a piece on online attacks on CJI Chandrachud by social media influencers. Since there is a conversation on whether the attack on Gavai was organic or driven by influencers. Here side by side, are attacks on CJIs - 2023 to 2025. No surprises, same accounts.
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Rejoinder to the actor #TamannaahBhatia's recent interview about an article I wrote on #Baahubali in 2015 in The Hindu Businessline titled “The Rape of Avanthika”. Please read and share widely so that it leads to a conversation that conservatives and #misogynists want to avoid.
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A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s
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The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
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Recent anti-Indian racism in the west seems to fly in the face of the proximity to whiteness that upper-caste, wealthier Indian immigrants have historically enjoyed. I spoke with @KuthaliPu about caste, race, and the model minority myth for @thenewsminute. https://t.co/DHiMvBhTGR
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Insanity in Indore A BJP leader issued an ultimatum: Traders in a cloth market must dismiss all their Muslim employees within a month. More than 50 muslims lose their jobs. And the DCP says there's no video evidence of the ultimatum
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For a while Indians' immigration attitudes hid behind the "model minority" curtain. Now, the discourse of "useful" engineer vs "unskilled/replaceable" blue collar worker is gone. Today the US has formalized & enabled racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric top-down. No Browns are exempt
Has Charlie Kirk’s death galvanised far-right anti-immigrant sentiments? And are Indians caught in the crossfire? This week’s South Central weighs in with hosts @dhanyarajendran @PoojaPrasanna4, @joyopal, @KuthaliPu
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I ran numbers on which US Congressional districts have the highest filings of H1s. All but one are Democrat districts, most voted against Trump massively. Here are the representatives, if you want to petition them to do something, in case the tech company bosses won't.
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