Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
@readingkafka
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Public service. Personal account. “The public library is the people’s university.”
India
Joined August 2015
Sports injury, facial reconstructive surgery, near-total loss of vision in one eye... seven months later, the 16yo ran his second 10k today. Teenagers will teenage! 🌷🌱 #resilience
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May the light be always on the children as they read. Images: children reading in rural public libraries, Karnataka. 🌷🌿🕊️📚#kidsinlibraries
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Rural public libraries serve as community spaces for all kinds of learning. Here, a group of women who attended a library training program on Aari embroidery now meet in the library once a week to practise new designs. 🌷🌿🕊️#librariesforall
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Childcare matters! Happy to see lots of kids in the Belagavi Zilla Panchayat crèche! Safe, quality childcare helps parents & guardians work better, secure in the knowledge that their child is being cared for. It’s also great for young kids to have a stimulating environment!
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It really indicates lack of insight when men scientists say ‘I have kids and yet I am in the lab till 9 pm’. Well, that’s because you have someone (a partner likely) to pick up the kids from school, feed them, bathe them, help with home work, get dinner done, and so on. 🙄 At
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Delighted to spend time at the Akka Food Court catered and managed by women at the Saras Mela, Belagavi. Here with the wonderful Akka housekeeping team. Thank you for all that you do! #womenslivelihoods #womensempowerment
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Always a delight to meet these talented and hardworking women entrepreneurs at the Saras Mela: Ms Razia and her partner from Vijayapura and Ms Sharada from Belagavi. #womenslivelihoods #womensempowerment #handmade
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When in Belagavi, drop in at the buzzing Akka Cafe in the Zilla Panchayat complex. A women-owned and women-run small business. Great to see this! Great work by Rahul Shinde, CEO Belagavi and team! #womenslivelihoods #womensempowerment
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Bought this beautiful embroidery notebook made by Lambani self-help group women at the Saras Mela in Belagavi. #womensartandcraft #womenslivelihoods #handmade
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I think it’s lovely that we’re all rejoicing in the life of a female novelist who died over 200 years ago. To her detractors I say, with Henry Tilney, “The person ... who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” Jane Austen, you will live forever.
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“The optimal public transit price is near zero, with increased bus and train frequencies.”
This paper is an absolutely monumental piece of work. Given incredibly detailed data on how people travel in Chicago, can one calculate the optimal prices of vehicles, roads, and public transport? It turns out -- free buses are correct! And we need massive taxes on vehicles. 1/
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And the bus comes to a stop, bringing the children to school. 🌷🌿📚🕊️
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“The potential of peaceful, non-transactional contribution has long been underestimated.” - Mackenzie Scott.
yieldgiving.com
Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control. To date, our network of…
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Great initiative. Love for nature starts in childhood & leads to adults who value and help conserve it
Library kids from Ravdukonda in Raichur on a field trip to the Magadi Ramsar site, to learn about migratory birds. Through the partnership with @ncfindia the rural public libraries of Karnataka have been teaching kids about birds. 🌷🕊️📚🌿
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Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy https://t.co/P9itO2C5hf I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇
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Ray Bradbury, who never attended college, called himself “completely library-educated.” After high school he spent ten years reading in the library hoping to acquire the knowledge he needed to become a novelist. “I discovered,” he later wrote, “the library is the real school.”
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The book 'Nudge' (2008) by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein was an influential bestseller that shaped public policy interventions around the world. So do 'nudges' work? Nope, according to this new synthesis of 14 meta-analysis, covering 1,638 studies including a total of 30
A pretty damning overview of the nudging literature just dropped. "This study provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging to date." "We find a small aggregated effect size." "[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Walt Whitman
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“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” - Mother Teresa.
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