Yugank Goyal
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teacher at @FLAMEUniversity | studied technology, law & economics | interested in nature (science) & culture, and everything in between, incl. policy
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When you know English and no history. In fact when you know English, real estate and frankly nothing else ! (Spotted in Pune)
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If you’re a student from/in
#Maharashtra
and want to discover, document cultures and stories of your own village/town/taluka/district, apply for 3-month District Fellowship Program at
@FLAMEUniversity
! Brilliant opportunity!
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The book is finally out! Arun and I rummage through our election results data over the years and show surprising leakages in mandates. We call for reforming the first-past-the-post election method. And also narrate some fun political vignettes.
#psephology
#elections
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If you’re from Maharashtra and keen on documenting your local cultures, do apply!
(Last date: 24 March)
#Maharashtra
@SakalMediaNews
@lokmat
@mataonline
@pudharionline
@LoksattaLive
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Shared my ideas and the book on psephology with the most amazing
@aparanjape
. It’s always a treat to meet him.
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It was a mad fun indeed! Thank you so much
@amitvarma
for allowing me to cross navigate across disciplinary silos. Refreshing to discuss ideas that matter at such length, in this hyperactive attention-span-deficit world!
Also on Spotify:
He's an original thinker who's going to throw thought-bomb after thought-bomb at you.
@yugank_goyal
joins me in episode 370 of The Seen and the Unseen to chat about education, elections, colonisation, politics, history, society:
Mad fun. Listen! 🙂
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Mapping judicial delays across districts, we come to interesting findings.
@smritijalihal
and I publish in
@livemint
today. (1/2)
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#Pune
is the largest non-capital city of India. This is a unique distinction, one that makes it most fitting city to lead Indian public policy ideas. The amazing Pune Public Policy Festival is pioneering step indeed! So proud of my friends organising it.
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What if we focused on constituencies and not on candidates/parties, during elections?
Launched the “Electoral Health Index: Maharashtra”
Full Report:
@ECISVEEP
@MaharashtraSEC
@PRSLegislative
@PSamratSakal
@amitabhsin
@gipe_official
@FLAMEUniversity
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In less than a month, more than 450 companies have quit Russia in one way or another. This private sector war on a country on moral grounds is truly unprecedented with huge implications for future. Few interesting facts: (1/n)
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Spoke at
@TEDx
recently.
TLDR: stereotypes against Indians are mostly rooted in colonial literature. We need to write our own stories!
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Delivered a session on why engineers need to study public policy for the
@COEPTech
leadership team.
(63% of selected candidates in UPSC during 2017-21 were engineers!)
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Brilliant Roundtable on Cultural Enterprises held at
@FLAMEUniversity
, with
@niceorg
. Inaugurated by Hon’ble Textile Minister
@ChDadaPatil
, and participated by a range of cultural startups, academics and artisans
@anilgb
@sanidpatil
@deep_k93
@kanchanakv
@RavindraSathe1
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Why top global universities may not choose to come to India, and what models can help make it happen? Dr Bhushan Patwardhan and I write for Indian Express.
Here’s the summary: (1/4)
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Met the Hon’ble
@maha_governor
,
@BSKoshyari
ji (with my friend
@PradeepChellap8
) and discussed a number of issues, including electoral politics in India: theme of the book I coauthored recently.
#psephology
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Was inspiring to meet
@PiyushGoyal
. He loved our Centre’s research, and also shared great insights:
For eg he narrated a story: in 2014, only 6lac LEDs were sold in India (~350/- per bulb). In 1-2 years, this number went to 30 million (~50/-). How? Two regulatory changes: (1/4)
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New paper in
@IJLC_CUP
: Looking at how informal divorces happen in India, I advance a framework of Legal Apparitions (mimicking legal procedures in informal practices). Also highlights how little communities need courts in divorce matters often.
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106 years ago, on this day, Gandhi gave his first public speech in India after coming from S Africa. It was the inauguration of BHU. His words were brilliant but rebellious. Infact Annie Besant and others on the stage had to cut him short, ending his speech abruptly. (1/3)
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Extracted and analysed the Question Hours in the last four Lok Sabhas. Fun insights! Some of it came out in Mint today. Excellent work by my student Shreyas.
@LokSabhaSectt
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Addressed the officers of UP Census Directorate
@DCO_UP
, demonstrating powers of LLM models (chatGPT/Bard), importance of data visualisations and what we at
@FLAMEUniversity
are doing with MH district data analysis. Such an enriching conversation!
@KamalRitul
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On this Constitution Day,
@shivakjolad
and I write for
@livemint
. Text analysis of Constituent Assembly Debates reveal interesting findings. (E.g. 6% members spoke 50% of the words. They spoke about freedom more than equality.)
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Was so rewarding to be at
@gipe_official
engaging with brilliant minds pulling out stories buried in election data.
@shardul_sm
@OsSathe
@SiddharthDesai
@ashwinikeskar22
Discussion on the book "Who Moved My Votes? Digging through Indian Electoral data" with
@yugank_goyal
on 2nd February 2023 at Gokhale Institute
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Speaking at Gokhale Institute on our book. Will also discuss the numbers behind the recently held Gujarat and HP elections. Swing by, if you’re around.
@arunkaush
@WestlandBooks
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics invites you to a discussion on Thursday.
Topic: Discussion on the book - Who moved my votes? Digging Through Indian Electoral Data
Speaker/Author: Dr Yugank Goyal - Associate Professor, Public Policy FLAME University
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Was inspiring to meet one of the most erudite politicians of our times
@prithvrj
. Hosted him at
@FLAMEUniversity
last month, and discussed some of our findings in my (coauthored) book ‘Who moved my Vote’.
#psephology
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If you’re in Pune next Sunday, please come. We will talk about elections — the numbers,
the politics, the campaigns and how we relate to them!
Register here:
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Recently, India sent 11k MT rice to Sri Lanka. (Cooked) rice in Sinhalese is called (pisu) bhat, similar to ‘bhaat’ in Bihar.
2500 years ago, Bihar (Magadha) sent Buddhism to SriLanka, along with its language! ‘Bhatta’ is observed in Prakrit for food/rice!
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Public opinion is very important in England. For even tiny civil/architec. change on the road (see image), local council must take that community’s opinion. This prevents streets getting ugly. Interesting example of civic participation worth emulating.
@sudhirmehtapune
@DeoSahil
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We analysed the manifestos of Congress and BJP during last four Lok Sabha elections.
Introduced a new variable to evaluate the promises against: falsifiability.
Interesting findings.
Research out in ORF.
With Ovee Karwa and
@DeoSahil
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Delighted to share that our team is selected for the finals of the Einstein Foundation Early Career Award, with our idea on scholactivism. Final rounds today!
Ready to celebrate the next generation of scientists? Check out the €100k Early Career category of the
#EinsteinFoundationAward2023
w/
@questbih
! Get to know the brilliant finalists online on Nov 9 and find out who wins on Nov 14!
@maxplanckpress
(1/2)
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Happy Maharashtra & Gujarat Day! Bombay State was dissolved and MH and GJ appeared. N-gram results are fun. States’ names peaked in the 60s ofcourse. Before that however, the word ‘Gujarat’ was more frequent (due to Gandhi?) than ‘Maharashtra’ but ‘Marathi’ more than ‘Gujarati.’
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If you have a PhD in history, and excited to create new knowledge, join us at Centre for Knowledge Alternatives,
@FLAMEUniversity
.
Project: History of India’s Public Administration
Apply asap:
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A major decision by GST Council has gone unnoticed. Earlier all online retailers had to register under GST (even those w revenue<40lac). They are now exempt and will be able to sell online without GST registration. This unlocks huge potential. Wish it was done earlier.
#EODB
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Organised this terrific Seminar last week with
@iccr_hq
and
@FLAMEUniversity
at Raj Bhavan and Films Division in Mumbai. Whirlwind of ideas! Sincere gratitude to
@Vinay1011
for making this happen.
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Global experience of export-import of universities is not exciting. We show in our recent ORF piece. Something to be kept in mind as UGC’s Regulations allowing foreign universities to open campuses in India are out. Partnership is a better model!
Article:
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Had a lovely time delivering lectures on complex adaptive systems to IIMK students. The Institute has started a PG program with liberal arts component, which is an interesting idea.
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My podcast with the amazing
@AshrafEngineer
on
@allindianscount
. I talk about elections, electoral method of FPTP, it’s problems and need for reforms. Also tell some stories on the way.
Based on
@arunkaush
and my book “Who Moved my Vote”.
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Conducted a short course on public policy for PG students at
@NIRDPR_India
, Hyd: dynamic bunch from small towns and interdisciplinary backgrnd, with a zeal for change in social sector. Most of them will join state rural dev missions. They gave me such hope for the future.
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@smritijalihal
and I discover the curious case of falling wind speeds in Indian cities. Highest rate of decline is in
#Hyderabad
,
#Bangalore
and
#Pune
. Our piece in
@livemint
today:
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Humayun’s Tomb in 1858 and 2023 (older pic was taken by Scottish photographer John Murray, showing desolate Delhi, destroyed by wars and conquests).
A lot can happen in a century!
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Looking for an RA in Pune: project on evaluating learning outcomes of a pedagogical intervention in schools.
@Harvard
funded project housed in
@FLAMEUniversity
. Scroll down on ‘openings’ page. Ideas on the project welcome too.
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I am looking to hire someone at the Lakshmi Mittal Institute in Delhi,
@Harvard
as an RA for a joint project on school education (Delhi-based only). Please apply/spread widely:
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I highlight few amazing empirical papers on “crime and politics” in India during my remarks in the 16th Annual ADR conference held earlier this year at
@gipe_official
(1hr7min onward).
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Universities need to be thought as engines of local economies!
Consider this: Indian students in Canada contribute to 0.43% of their per capita income!
Karishma and my piece in
@livemint
today:
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Pre-Text, the simple pedagogical method that uses arts to instil love for reading, in Hindu yesterday (featuring Prof Doris Sommer, the pioneer of the method and myself: we’re doing a study in India)
@MittalInstitute
@TarunKhannaHBS
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1) Reading some colonial literature and came across Macaulay’s letters. Excerpts from one of them:
To Zachary Macaulay, 12 Oct 1836
My dear Father,
“…Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully. We find it difficult, indeed at some places impossible, to provide instruction
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Was a treat to meet
@SidShirole
recently. Possessing rare combination of being MLA as well as an author, his insatiable curiosity and swift grasp of new ideas was remarkable.
Receiving his book, ‘Today is my Favourite Day’ was so apt. It indeed was for me 😊
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So wait a minute. Kurta and dhoti is Indian ethnic wear, but T-shirt and blue jeans is not American ethnic wear?
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Our Electoral Health Index of Maharashtra Constituencies is covered in
@SakalMediaNews
and
@IndianExpress
The complete Index Report:
@FLAMEUniversity
@PRSLegislative
@ECISVEEP
@LoknitiCSDS
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Corruption vignettes of Bombay in 1952! Written by JRB Jeejeebhoy, the delightful (but forgotten) chronicler of colonial Bombay (not to be confused by JJ colleges patron Jamsedjee Jeejeebhoy). Found this gem in the state government gazetteer department.
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Anyway. If you’re interested to keep track, Jeffrey Sonnefeld from Yale maintains the list of these companies. French have been slowest to leave. Amongst major ones still hanging are Acer, Credit Suisse, Decathlon, Lenovo, Emirates, Societe Generale (n/n).
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Interested in informal property rights, commons and their role in food/ecosystems management?
Submit your paper to our panel at the XIX Biennial IASC Conference being held in Nairobi in June 2023
Last date: 19th December
(panel no.1.6)
@flagccipforum
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@shardul_sm
and I write in this week’s
@epw_in
: need to revise MSME categories. 99% of MSME are micro units and 70%+ of these are tiny (nano). Our idea: separate those with <25l turnover p.a. (~GST exemption limit) from MSME to rationalise policy designs.
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Great meeting
@dpradhanbjp
, Min for Education & Skill Dev y’day at
@FLAMEUniversity
campus.Discussed why interdisciplinarity is imp (he said in designing Ujjwala Yojna, ideas from a sociology prof were crucial).He also admired our Center’s gazetteer work greatly.
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Being just ‘woke’ can’t explain this. Three things stand out. (1) Firms can no longer remain apolitical. Business have to take social welfare into account. (2) B-schools have to bring politics and policy in classes. Public Policy studies cannot ignore ethics either. (5/n)
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Time for internal practices of a university to be factored into its ranking.
One of the best global universities
@ucl
(
@BartlettArchUCL
) can also have repulsive governance.
@timeshighered
@TopUnis
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Spoke at ADR’s National Conference last month. Highlighted some empirical studies on criminality in politics. Here are some studies:
1) ADR’s data — no. of MPs with criminal cases in last three Lok Sabha 30%, 34% and 43% respectively (serious cases: 14%, 21% and 29%)
2) The …
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Excited to be part of the IRC39 (Scholars in the Global South: Scholactivists or Interlopers?) with Sergio Latorre,
@jonliljeblad
,
@YaraSallam
,
@SentheShanthi
, Golnoosh.
Friday, 4:45-6:30pm
Caribe Hilton, Wave Wing – 2nd Floor: Flamboyán
Join us!
#LSA2023
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(3) Finally, ‘ethics’ - perhaps because it’s in short supply - is becoming a valued commodity. If ethics are cultural and civilisational, battle between western and nonwestern frames of ethics will only intensify. Some settling of this will be needed in India soon. (6/n)
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He said our salvation can come from farmers and not doctors, lawyers. He derided the richly adorned galaxy of Maharajas, princes and the British who were sitting in the audience, for showing their jewellery and giving speeches on India’s poverty.
All of this 106 years ago! (3/3)
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What you seek is seeking you
@DeoSahil
Rare sighting of prof
@yugank_goyal
at
@FLAMEUniversity
earlier today!
Was there to conduct the intro to
#publicpolicy
course along w
@OsSathe
Super vibe here 😎
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Karishma and I rummage through the data of universities opening campuses in foreign countries for a reality check. We allay the excitement of UGC Regulations allowing foreign univ to open campuses in India, and offer some ideas on how best to utilise the opportunity.
@ugc_india
What is the
#global
experience in cross-border university campuses: Contextualising the new
#UGC
Regulations inviting foreign universities to India, mention
@yugank_goyal
& Karishma K. Shah
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Some of the earliest companies to withdraw from Russia were fossil fuel giants. Surprising because they’ve got huge stakes there, and are not the ones that have every been interested in social change so to speak. BP was the first one, then came Shell, Exxon etc. (2/n)
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Learn some alphabets, learn some rhymes,
Let’s take a closer look at the colonial times!
(
@dikisherpa498
in our Centre dug out Arthur Bowden’s ABC Book of India, published in 1900, used by British kids in India, to learn English alphabets … and Indian stereotypes)
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During 1971-77, Indira Gandhi’s Congress (R) carried the election symbol of cow+calf. Symbol of Bharatiya Jana Sangh’s (BJP’s ore) during 1951-77 was a lamp! How times change!
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Next came consulting firms: Bain, BCG, McKinsey. Even here, consulting firms have hardly got themselves in politics explicitly. Soon, tech giants joined the list (again, not really those associated with ethics): Dell, IBM, Apple, HP, Google, Facebook, Twitter (3/n)
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LED expanded like a revolution, and govt saved huge amounts of energy, before even adding new capacity. It’s amazing what ‘enabling’ industrial policies can do. Worth a detailed case study. (4/4)
@FLAMEUniversity
@doe_prc
#publicprocurement
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Our data stories from Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and MP elections. Three charts in EPW’s latest issue today!
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He expressed shame that he had to speak in a foreign language and not Hindustani on such an occasion. He spoke of unclean temples in the city, of pity of 3rd class train passengers. He mentioned the popular opinion of civil servants being bad lot, sycophants, tyrannical. (2/3)
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By now, pressure had mounted on others. After some criticism, food industry gave in. McDonald’s (can you imagine McDonald’s: it will set up its outlet on moon if they let it!), Coca Cola, Pepsi, Starbucks also departed. (4/n)
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National Statistics Day today. B’day of PC Mahalanobis, the genius physicist-turned-statistician, who gave us large-scale sampling techniques and also digital computers (Chinese PM Zhou Enlai and physicist Niels Bohr in ISI — which he founded — in 1956 and 1960 respectively).
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For cases with 10+ yrs pendency: (1)criminal cases 3.5 times civil although freq highly correlated (3) unequal distrbtn: 10% districts have 62% such cases (4) some clustering seen: maybe spillover of court cultures (4) no great spatial pattern: need local level strategies (1/2)
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UP goes to vote tomorrow.
@arunkaush
and I examine the seat and vote margins of winners and runners-up during last five decades of Vidhan Sabha. Interesting spikes in vote margins in 1991 and 2017. Awaiting 2022. (Source: EC data analysed in our forthcoming book on psephology).
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(b) They changed the payment terms. Earlier govt paid in instalments over 5 yrs (crippling)! Now they would do in one month (lesson in public procurement).
(The minister said he gave his personal cell number to manufacturers to call him if payment isn’t done in 30 days!)(3/4)
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(a) They removed the subsidy on making LEDs. Earlier manufacturers used to wait for subsidy to make LEDs. Subsidy began acting as (mental) upper limit: they wouldn’t make without subsidy (lesson in behavioural economics). Removing it meant removing that mental barrier. (2/4)
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@ambimgp
@Dwari1008
@suchetadalal
@dhume
@amitvarma
@livemint
Dear
@ambimgp
. Thanks for taking it up. The correct number of total cases pending is 47 million (not 470 million, which is a typing error, and has been fixed in online version). But then, even that is a high number. We are doing a larger study on this issue: will keep you posted.
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@scottishladki
@GodboleSandeep
@malhar_pandey
@shivakjolad
Oh dear. This is like leaving the cinema hall before the climax scene! 🤦🏻♂️
Was such an enriching morning. Thanks
@GodboleSandeep
,
@scottishladki
,
@malhar_pandey
. Now my turn to give you all a tour of a faraway land in Pune, the village Lavale and it’s
@FLAMEUniversity
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Guys, congratulations! The colonisers have left the country!
That was easy! Phew!
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Today is World Heritage Day. Int’l Day of Monuments and Sites! Two months ago, 180 positions in Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) became history. Additional 124 filled posts are declared to be made history soon!
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The need of the hour is ‘genuine’ partnerships, not branches! During my visits to China, I saw many examples:
Tsinghua-Berkeley Schenzen Institute
Hopkins-Nanjing Centre
Univ of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ Joint Institute
Stanford Center for Peking Univ
… and so many more!
UGC Regulations have allowed
#foreign
universities to bring their campuses to
#India
? But will it work? From
@yugank_goyal
& Karishma K. Shah
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@DeoSahil
@SidShirole
Thanks
@DeoSahil
,
@SidShirole
! Didn’t notice until y’day, but thanks for triggering it
@cIndraneel
.
I wonder if there’s a need for a master database/calendar of prominent exams in India. Like Hindu calendar with all tithis :)
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Can other cities please learn something from Hyderabad! 😊 Never out of fashion!
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6) And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reglection. I heartily rejoice in this prospect....”
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@INETeconomics
5th Law, Economics Policy Conference taking place at
@FLAMEUniversity
for next three days. Brilliant speakers. Big ideas.
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Big thanks to
@karthikavk
and the brilliant team at
@WestlandBooks
for the unflinching support all through.
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Crazy discovery! Boquila trifoliolata (found in rainforests of Chile, Argentina) is world’s most mysterious plant. Its a vine whose leaves mimic the leaves of a nearby plant! And recently they’ve found that it can mimic leaves of an artificial plant too!!
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This IRC is a continuation of conversations in Lisbon that explores activism and knowledge production in the Global South.
@cf364
@AtapattuSumudu
@surajyengde
@cavidansoykan
Mayda Hocevar
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@DeoSahil
@FLAMEUniversity
@sruthijith
@Chinmay_Bhosale
Thanks
@DeoSahil
#Pune
has almost 9k civil law cases and 34k criminal cases that are pending for 10+ years (2021 figures). Clearly much to improve.
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…those with clean background got 6.7% more. Voter turnout also increased (George et al., 2018).
6) Rising electoral competition requires more money and hence the rise of more criminals entering politics (Vaishnav, 2017).
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Here’s my recent TEDx talk on colonial stereotypes:
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@rugwed
Haha I know isn’t it?!? Please tell me they botched up converting a noun (colonies) into an adjective (colonial). Because anything else is like, well 🤦🏻♂️.
@cIndraneel
sheds more light below.
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W-Z
(W for wedding so quaint in the East
Z for zemindar with turban and silk)
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