My piece in The Wire on the donation of electoral bonds by the Pharma industry:
m.thewire.in/article/health…

I'm most grateful to Meghana Choukkar and King's College London for this presentation of my latest book: 'Gujarat under Modi. Laboratory of Today's India' (Hurst)
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Hurst Publishers Michael Dwyer Financial Times The Guardian Carnegie India Alliance Program BASAS

I am daggered, stunned, and — thank you!

Never imagined that Black River might be on a list that includes Dennis Lehane, Vaseem Khan, Kate Morton and many others I admire. This is an honour, The Crime Writers’ Association.

Good luck to all of you for the shortlist.

Pushkin Press DGA

“..not a single physician has ever been expelled from the medical register in India on charges of … bribery”

“…to believe that the UCPMP will rein in any such people is merely fairy-tale imagination”

Shah Alam Khan in this poignant piece #mustread

thewire.in/health/the-unh…

BJP-RSS Has Always Wanted to Change India's Constitution thewire.in/politics/bjp-r…

Spoke to Bansy Kalappa of The New Indian Express on #ElectoralBondsScam

Here’s the link:

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An interesting 🧵on Indian #PulFiction 👇

An interesting 🧵on Indian #PulFiction 👇

SS👣 R 🙏for your appreciation & warm greetings. On #NationalCivilServicesDay , I appeal to all #CivilServants , including members of #AIS , to uphold the principles of #Constitution , #RuleOfLaw , while walking the straight path of #PublicService , the greatest opportunity for any citizen.

For those interested in my … thoughts on Kant, his upcoming 300th anniversary, and the case for peace, check out this weekend’s Financial Times edition FT Weekend Financial Times

Just updated!

100+ inspiring global health films

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Foreign policy has long been considered an elite concern in India, so what explains its newfound appeal among the masses? In our latest Carnegie Endowment #IndiaElects2024 , Caroline Mallory + I try to make sense of this important shift carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/12/in-…

Food regulators in Hong Kong at the Center for Food Safety has identified a pesticide called ethylene oxide in multiple food products and spices manufactured in India, by Indian companies Everest (Mumbai) and MDH (New Delhi).

Everest and MDH are the largest spices traders in

'Democracy exists when you are able to live the life that you want to. We become empowered, and everyone becomes equal—that’s when we start feeling freer, more liberated. And what, really, is closer to the idea of democracy than this feeling?'

~ Salma

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'Algorithms have become market gatekeepers and value allocators, and are now becoming producers and arbiters of knowledge.' In our article Tim O'Reilly Ilan Strauss Rufus and I argue for a closer look at the economic power of AI in The Conversation ⬇️ theconversation.com/to-understand-…

India's labor market is in trouble. In this Indian Express article I discuss some of the issues including the role of aspirations.

'Given the double-speak..., in the past as well as the present, it is clear that in the event of the BJP securing another tenure in office, the Constitution’s status will be in peril – the cover shall not be altered but the text on the sheets will be altered considerably.' 👇👇

'Given the double-speak..., in the past as well as the present, it is clear that in the event of the BJP securing another tenure in office, the Constitution’s status will be in peril – the cover shall not be altered but the text on the sheets will be altered considerably.' 👇👇

Hong Kong food regulators find cancer-causing ingredients in 4 MDH, Everest products, reports Sumit Jha.

CFS, has identified that 4 products from MDH & Everest, contain pesticide ethylene oxide, which is classified as a Group-1 carcinogen by IARC.

thesouthfirst.com/health/hong-ko…

BJP accounts for 32% of all money spent on political ads on Google in India this year scroll.in/latest/1066511… via Scroll.in