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मन समर्पित, तन समर्पित,
और यह जीवन समर्पित।
चाहता हूँ हे मातृभूमि, तुझे कुछ और भी दूँ।
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Samridh Joshi
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Samridh Joshi
@SamridhJoshi
Dharma|Artha|Samaj|Statistics|Policy. @IITKanpur BTech. EE, MS Economics @UC3M, Ex. NITI/Ayushman Bharat-NHA/@RishihoodUni. Nation before Self
Delhi, Bharat/Madrid, Espana Katılım Şubat 2014
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Academics see policy professionals as useless generalists who are incapable of rigor and research.
Policy professionals see academics as intellectual speculators who are busy in their paper models and have no clue of the real world.
We need to demolish both these prejudices.
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The blood of hundreds of innocent men and women, sadhus and saints, who lost their lives to political violence in Bengal has been avenged.
Today is beyond historic.
It is truth and courage that has won over fear and violence.
Hope that BJP delivers big in the next 5 years.
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“Woohoo, I am a niche Twitter micro-celebrity.” I shouted with unbridled joy as my follower count crossed 2,000. Upon hearing this, my father's eyes became moist as he silently murmured, “I wish you were a Railway Group D employee.”
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India has ~ 6,200 names in the SCOPUS/Stanford "world's top 2% scientists" list, generated on the basis of the number of papers published in a year.
But, in the more selective, 'human-vetted' world's top 1% "Highly Cited Researchers" list, India has only 6 names.
We also have the dubious distinction of leading the world in terms of the number of retractions per 1,000 papers.
Between 2020-2024, Indian researchers had to retract over 4,800 published papers, mostly due to "deliberate academic misconduct."
In 2025-26, Indians published 5% of all academic papers, but accounted for 21% of all retracted papers.
Indian researchers have been known to operate in 'citation rings' where they cite each other to increase their rankings.
They are also known to frequently publish papers by paying money to predatory journals that have virtually no peer review filtration.
It is a method of gaming the system that is now rampant everywhere.
The most unethical people rise through this method of faking academic excellence. That, in turn, puts pressure on others who have to publish or perish.
Like in every field, mediocrity rules here too.
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Factories pay really low wages , 8000 to 12000 max for 10-12 hours shift and also deduct salaries if labour takes leave on Sunday ( there are no weekend off). Violence is not the solution however the govt should really grill blood sucking dhandhos…
Sunanda Vashisht@sunandavashisht
Maids in Delhi NCR get paid really well. This I know from personal experience. I really don’t understand who is instigating this demographic. Whoever it is, is doing them a huge disservice. Soon housekeeping will be taken over by corporate houses, it already is, for fraction of headache and quarter of charges. Professionalism you get is an added bonus. Soon no one will hire maids like they were hired in the past and no prizes for guessing who will lose out.
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Let me add my ₹1.
Manufacturers in the NCR, Noida belt, pay abysmally low salaries.
I once visited a company where they were getting casual labour for ₹8000-₹10,000. This, while we are shelling out >₹17,000.
I was aghast at how flippantly the owner was talking about it.
What about minimum wages? I asked. He simply laughed.
I realised the that there was no way companies like ours could compete on price with these guys.
What you are seeing now, is possibly a long overdue correction.
Having said that, the violence is probably politically motivated.
Sunanda Vashisht@sunandavashisht
Maids in Delhi NCR get paid really well. This I know from personal experience. I really don’t understand who is instigating this demographic. Whoever it is, is doing them a huge disservice. Soon housekeeping will be taken over by corporate houses, it already is, for fraction of headache and quarter of charges. Professionalism you get is an added bonus. Soon no one will hire maids like they were hired in the past and no prizes for guessing who will lose out.
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And finally, it is easy for us who are up the ladder and enjoying a comfortable life in our cubicles, who don't have to worry about our bills and rent and who have the luxury to enjoy a decent life, to lecture. A bit of empathy won't be harmful, neither would decent living wages. n/n
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India's labour sector is probably the worst both in terms of wages and labour regulations as well as enforcement. The lesser said for working conditions, the better.
As for productivity, labour exploitation won't make your labour productive 🙃.
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Somnath Mukherjee@somnath1978
Ask anyone running a manufacturing unit - India's labour costs are at par or higher than many cntries w/higher per-capita incomes. Aspirations running way ahead of productivity is the core issue..
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India has a significantly prosperous white collar middle and upper middle class with median wages that are 7-8X more than the wages of blue collar workers per hour.
You put both in one town. The former dictates living costs, the latter gets crushed under the weight of the same. What do you expect in the long run, if not unrest and social frictions?
3/n
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You cannot sit and compare Indian wages with some shithole like Bangladesh or Pakistan (which BTW have wages almost similar to India).
If you do, you risk both crushing India's demand driven growth and being stuck in the poverty trap. Worse, you risk social unrest. 2/n
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The very fact that a party whose spokesperson proclaims that the state of WB is destined to poverty and cannot industrialise, wins the state, tells you everything about why the state is miserable in the first place.
Abhishek@AbhishBanerj
"Bengal has never been a hub for large manufacturing, and cannot be." -- Mahua Moitra Request India's greatest historian Shri Ram Guha to fact check this statement. 🙏
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While cannot be denied that most likely there are malicious elements and political organisations behind engineering this violence, the root of this cannot be wished away.
Our industrial setup and even corporate environment to a large extent reeks of elements of slavery, overwork and unfair wages.
Violence like this is one angle to this. The second but silent angle is the rapid exit of high talent and high agency individuals from firms after working a mere few years.
Talented individuals are seeking exit and getting burned out, sometimes to death while the blue collar labourers want to rampage.
Unless we can remedy this low wage, high work and poor mindset environment in our factories and corporates, I am afraid, the economy will implode under the weight of the very demographic dividend it seeks to harness.
Tushar Gupta@Tushar15
Who are these industrial workers protesting in Noida, and why is burning public property and jamming the highway a part of their plan? Sooner or later, a political angle will emerge, and it will be deployed during the campaign ahead of March 2027.
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I don't understand the surprise or disappointment of few of us seeing Pakistan hosting the negotiation talks.
Pakistan has the unique combination of being an Islamic Nation which has the capability of being absolutely subservient to the United States and China. It flatters everyone and projects itself as a reliable tool which the Americans or the Chinese can use at their pleasure. That is why it gets to mediate and host these affairs because it simply has no interest or capability of its own, it can act as a postman of every power involved in this fiasco.
In return, what is assured is that Pakistan will always be made to remain a corrupt and bankrupt military state by these very powers so that it's status as a useful subservient tool remains permanent. For this, its military generals and top politicians get to have billions stashed away in Gulf and the US and enjoy a grand life while the populace starves away in poverty and remains brainwashed in Islamic fanaticism.
Do we really want to go down that path?
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Heard that Ashoka pays big bucks for publication in Econometrica.
Although I doubt if more than a handful in India have the calibre to do so.
confumbit@confumbit
did ashoka just poach the isi Delhi maths dept for its own maths department 😭
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@Shreyas_Mysuru The paper does not even try to address the causal question. It just goes on to say, identity is correlated with discrimination and that's it.
Pretty useless IMO given that there could be 10 confounders (for instance one you mentioned).
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A sad tale of where the world is heading. I can't say things in India are much better although we have some semblance of sanity.
In short, politicians want to turn us into propaganda driven machines and kill any spark of intellectualism, evidence driven policy and research.
Max Kozlov@maxdkozlov
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is closing its social sciences directorate. Staff will be transferred elsewhere in NSF, and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be kept. W/ @dangaristo for @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…
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You realise your foolishness late. I remember cheering Trump's victory, driven by my disgust for the woke left.
But then, he came for everything we had to cherish. He waged war on academia. He has nearly pushed the world towards economic depression.
How idiotic we were.
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