For more on Dr Ambedkar's legal practice

academia.edu/34592004/Lawye…

A visit to Cambridge (Mass) has always included an evening with Amartya-babu. It was wonderful to spend time with him and the ever illuminating Sugata Bose . In the times we live in, when compassion seems to have gone into hiding, Amartya-babu reminds us of that simple quality!

I wrote a little essay about why we consider some batsmen beautiful and others not so much -- and more curiously, why there's so much unanimity on who belongs in which category.

Cameos: Steve Waugh, David Gower, Mike Brearley, and more! [1]

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Content de lire une historienne qui comprend si bien l’économie et au passage dit tout un tas de choses frappées au coin du bon sens.

Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Isabel Alonso), author of RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS, on a legendary radio broadcaster’s long-running programme on Radio Ceylon and how it seeped into the lives of its audience. scroll.in/reel/1066351/h… via The Reel Columbia Univ Press

May 23-24, 2024 Meghna Chaudhuri meghna chaudhuri, along with Yael Kälin and I are organizing a workshop on #Finance and its #Environments : New Approaches to #Capital at University of Zurich thanks to generous support from Swiss National Science Foundation and Hochschulstiftung hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereich…

Australian policies designed to prevent Aboriginal babies being born as recently as the 1970s. Honoured to work with Julia Hurst and Jaky Troy on this. theconversation.com/friday-essay-t…

Four-year Chancellor’s Research Fellowships being offered at University of Technology Sydney ⁦⁦UTS⁩. Closing date 3 June 2024. uts.edu.au/research-and-t…

How did the Soviet occupation of Northeast China (Manchuria) and Nationalist China’s industrial reconstruction efforts in the postwar era shape CCP's socialist industrialisation? Please join us for Dr Koji Hirata's seminar Koji Hirata on Friday 10 May 2024: bellschool.anu.edu.au/event/soviets-…

Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke. x.com/jjoque/status/…

Grateful for this thoughtful review of Toward A Free Economy in The Asian Age! Thank you Esbee

An excellent review of Mircea Raianu's Tata by Akshi Singh in the LRB: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I was lucky to be in conversation with Pratap Bhanu Mehta
and Rajshree Chandra in December for the Delhi Launch of Toward a Free Economy Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s, moderated by Harish Damodaran. Video below (increase the volume to the max to hear). Thanks Nehruvian The Wire
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Now my interview on the Indian #Election2024 in English swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch/eng/democracy/…

Since #Periyar is back in controversy - when is he isn't! - do have a look at my book on Periyar for an intro to his political atheism, and how this informs his critical approach to caste, religion and nationalism.

amazon.in/PERIYAR-POLITI…

On Agyeya's death anniversary recommending Akshaya Mukul's brilliant biography. Akshaya Mukul truly captures the essence like no else. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding Agyeya's life and work.

Seven newly converted Tamil Sikhs to contest Lok Sabha elections in the state!

Meet Selvakumar alias Selva Singh, Korkai Palanisamy Singh, Rajan Singh, Seetha Kaur, Manivasagam, Asiriyar Shanmugasundaram Singh, and Naga Vamsa Pandian Singh, all of whom are converts to Sikhism,…

As Ireland prepares to intervene in South Africa’s case against Israel CIJ_ICJ , I’m writing about what we might expect in today’s The Irish Times