Who are the labour contractors or state agencies involved in this? That would be interesting to know.

And as classical scholars have noted; his ancient Greek is quite bad 😭😭😭

Demographic dividend

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The Left-wing version of this joke where he tells his date that 'Mao was a revisionist' is much funnier imo 😅😅😅

This is what I’ve been saying - many Indians shamelessly plagiarize w/o remorse. They steal content/art/post videos w removing all refs to the creators/sources. It is as if they don’t want anyone to know who they follow-except joke’s on them since they don’t get how algos work🙄

'The utopian is necessarily a voluntarist: he believes in the possibility of of more or less radically rejecting reality, and substituting his utopia for it by an act of will.'

'The Twenty Year's Crisis, 1919-1939', E.H. Carr

''Anyways stream my new single called “Taylor Swift’s Carbon Emissions” available on all streaming platforms until I get a cease and desist under the threat of a defamation lawsuit :)''

Wheezing 😭😭😭

I think about this a lot. I try to get my students to engage with the aesthetics, the quirks and the oddities of a prose. I can't say that I am teaching it well. I am still learning as I go but it feels liberating to debunk canonicity and infuse the classroom with other voices.

''In the history and origins of the potato – that ‘godless vegetable’ – she describes a long and turbulent story of imperialism and class politics.''

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'Palestine Lives', Burhan Karkoutly, circa 1985.

''The social revolt of the millenarian peasantry naturally defined itself as an attempt to overthrow the Church.'

'The Society of the Spectacle', Guy Debord

'994.77 or Lebenslänglichen Explosionsglück', Pierre Fouché.

A bobbin lace work crafted from silk from WWII parachutes.

One more for Vinay Aravind 's #bumstwitter methinks!!!

'AITA for putting my penis in peanut butter and leaving it in the kitchen?'

I mean, frankly, the much more serious issue is this unattended mouse problem they seem to have in the bedroom- cos those suckers ain't just gonna stay confined there once they are in 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Conservative Christians banging on and on about how 'pronouns are confusing' but keep on worshipping a non-binary God who uses He/Him pronouns 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

'Shaming men for having small penises is anti-European and anti-aristocratic.'

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'To be postcolonial also entailed the right to critique our current regimes, because our tainted present wasn't what we had been promised, and this mandated a fight for greater equality and rule of law.'

Brilliant writing as ever from Amitava Kumar 🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️