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Friends and lovers, I am now officially DONE with my PhD at the University of Oxford.
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Shireen Azam
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Shireen Azam
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caste-religion-politics in India DPhil @uniofoxford, founded @epw_in Engage, public history @indiainkhistory, Jharkhandi
Ranchi / Bengaluru Katılım Ocak 2010
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In UP's Muzaffarnagar, at least 12 bonded labourers were freed from a paper plate manufacturing unit. Narrating their ordeal, labourers claimed they were tortured using fan belt whip and spear. Roti made of cattle feed and salt was served in the meal. Rottweiler was stationed as gaurds to ensure none of labourers flee from captivity. Main accused Ankit Baliyan is still on the run.
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FIFTY ONE deaths in Telangana due to heatwave yesterday!
51 people died in ONE SINGLE DAY!
And it is not even the main news anywhere!
This brings the total to 107 heatwave deaths in just three days. At least another four more days of heatwave conditions are expected.
Highest number of deaths were reported from Warangal yesterday. 23 deaths were from this district alone.
Temperatures are touching 42 to 46 degrees in Telangana.
Imagine if 51 people died in a single day in a flight crash or a road accident or a stampede or a bridge collapse - we would have all been angry.
With heatwave, we all tend to accuse the Sun and move on.
Heatwave isn’t act of God.
It is a direct result of mindless tree chopping our governments are doing in the name of development.
Global warming & Climate change are real!!!
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Imagine stepping outside at 6 PM and the air is still 42.1°C.
Now add enough humidity to push the wet-bulb temperature to 29.1°C. That's what I measured today in Bhalswa, Delhi.
The human body cools itself by evaporating sweat. At wet-bulb temperatures like this, that defense starts failing. A wet-bulb of 29°C is already in the range where prolonged outdoor work becomes dangerous. And this is after sunset is approaching, not at peak afternoon heat.
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Without rehabilitation, hawkers will not be evicted.
A rally of railway hawkers carrying red flags, called by the West Bengal Railway Hawkers' Union.
Today at Sealdah.
#LeftAlternative
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Reader friendsss, will you help me out with your favorite papers/books/essays on academic knowledge production and (its relationship to / co-option by) the state.
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Midnight in New Delhi.
Date: 21 May 2026
Air temperature: 31°C
Surface temperature: 39.3°C
The ground beneath us was still over 8°C hotter than the surrounding air after midnight
This is why I focus on surface temperatures rather than just air temperatures. Concrete and asphalt dominate our cities. We walk on them, wait on them, drive over them, and live around them. They absorb enormous amounts of heat during the day and continue releasing it at night.
This is the urban heat island effect in action and one reason why nights are getting warmer in our cities.
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The insult to the intelligence of the common Indian is evident in this post from the minister.
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It’s genuinely nightmarish that India produces such heartbreaking images and symbols of cruelty every day.
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its always the (20th century UC appropriators of hereditary art and calling it) 'classical' dancers 🤮
ANI@ANI
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnesses a cultural performance as he arrives at a hotel in Rome, Italy (Source: ANI/DD)
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Miracles exist because my father and I grew tomatoes during the genocide.
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Previously unused sentence in human history.
Aparna@chhuti_is
BJP MLA Rekha Patra has demanded birth certificate of cows to prove they are not below 14.
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Anyone doing the same job for 12 years would automatically get better at it - why doesn’t that hold for the BJP?
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माननीय मुख्यमंत्री श्री @HemantSorenJMM जी इनकी मदद करें पैंशन योजना का लाभ मिल पाए इस बच्चे को पैंशन को लेकर कई बार आवेदन दिया गया है लग भाग 2 साल से घर वाले परेशान है अब ये लोग लाचार हो चुके है उम्मीद भी छोड़ दी है अब आपके भरोसे पर है @dc_simdega @shireenazam @deepakbiruajmm
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Thousands of Adivasi men and women are protesting under the scorching Odisha sun against the proposed expansion of Kodingamali mining and the plan to increase supply 6 million tonnes of bauxite to Vedanta every year.
They speak of polluted water, damaged forests, loss of livelihoods, and threats to their very existence. Yet, not a single prominent leader from any major political party is standing beside them.
When elections come, tribals are called the “soul of India.” But when they fight for their land, forests, and dignity, the political class disappears.
Development cannot mean silencing the people who pay its highest price.
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In half the seats BJP won in Bengal, total SIR deletions outnumber victory margin
The bulk of these seats are ones that the Hindutva party has never won before, reports @AnantGuptaAG
scroll.in/article/109263…
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the point lost or deliberately glossed over by the attempts to normalise this by saying but the bjp would have won despite SIR. there is no despite, we are in a territory we have never been in before...this does not count as an election, our process is vitiated as never before.
Hartosh Singh Bal@HartoshSinghBal
Electoral analysis...rests on a foundational assumption: that the electorate that voted is...the electorate that was supposed to vote. That...has been broken...in West Bengal. Any...calculation...about what people...wanted is...incomplete &...meaningless. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com…
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Damn, to be Hemant Soren in Ranchi today…..
Official PeeingHuman@thepeeinghuman
South India & content creators are the only opposition left now?
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