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@RishiJoeSanu And the particular interpretation of the Land assignment rules that started with the Munnar demolitions.

The draconian Paddy land Act will remain VS Achuthanandan's sorry legacy in the future.

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@Satvik_Pen @srajagopalan @RishiJoeSanu The paddy land act is Kafkaesque. I once dealt with two cases one day: one for filling up a pond in a paddy field and another for digging up a pond!

It's well known Indian land laws are crazy, but it's worth repeating just how insane and Byzantine it can be. Kerala is by far the worst offender Great by @srajagopalan! @RishiJoeSanu some interest to you

@puram_politics Brilliant! TN has the right mix of human capital and political economy for a takeoff. Fingers crossed.

Here's a cheat sheet made of charts on Tamil Nadu's prosperity march in the last 35 years. The state's dependence of agriculture decreased, its poverty declined, the mean years of schooling for girls increased and the per capita income galloped.

@JimPethokoukis Indian industry estimates for employment in the IT/BPO sector is 1% of the labour force. Even if the entire sector gets fired and move to the labour force, unemployment goes up by only 1 pp. I doubt if they are using the correct metric.

Interesting metric! 'We are monitoring the unemployment rate in the Philippines and India for any signs that AI is reducing the need for outsourced workers in corporate America. So far, there are no signs of AI replacing offshore workers.' apolloacademy.com/no-signs-of-ai…

@MCR_Property This is from your corporation street property. Residents leaving trash for days in the corridor creating health and safety fire safety risk. In house team has taken no action inspite of multiple reports.

@jjmaxwell4 @garrytan I doubt if anyone outside the top 10-15 percentile of the income distribution gets into IITs. Agree that once you are in that range, your relative position doesn’t help much.

@garrytan Would be interesting to look at India’s IIT admissions mapped to family income ranges and compare to the US. My understanding is admission is largely test score based. Imagine would be more merocratic across household income compared to US.

If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an edge.

@BhattRohin @timesofindia Thanks for the article. Pedantic question. Why should incest be a separate category? Doesn’t rape cover the non-consensual cases? If consensual, don’t we need an equal treatment of all pregnancies?

In today’s @timesofindia , I write on the UK decriminalising abortion and why India must follow suit. Link—timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit…

@amedandr @Gi_R94 @halperentosun @brunoss42 @immanuelfeld @ccardonaandrade @AruhanRS @nurlan_lv @EdoardoTolva @ozaneakbas @ricc_matt Best wishes, Amedeo! We will miss you in the department!

I thank my friends/colleagues at Warwick ("extended" office banda: @Gi_R94 @halperentosun @brunoss42 Carolina Andrea See-Yu @immanuelfeld @ccardonaandrade @AruhanRS @nurlan_lv Odra + @EdoardoTolva @gokul_gr @ozaneakbas @ricc_matt + really long list!) 💜

Grateful for all the support from my advisors (Eric Cesare @ricco_giovanni), and all the outstanding faculty at @warwickecon (particularly the metrics group). plus much lucky for the exceptional viva committee (Bertille and @aoziparis + Pablo) 🙏

@Noahpinion A typical Indian in this graph is a third/fourth generation elite. First gen: British college education-direct government job. Second gen: training in top IITs and migration to US. Third gen: ace SAT scores.

Composition effect. A lot of what people assume is due to racial superpowers is really just due to selective immigration.

@thebooksatchel Depends on the time of the day!

banganappalli/badami >>>>> alphonso mangoes

Wow, this is very kind @draparente, thank you! Honor to be in @SeyoneC's company. Fully agreed that the ability to "tinker with biology" (to quote a current hot topic 👀) using computational methods, open source datasets, etc. was hugely helpful in getting my feet wet with bio. I'll also add another force beyond personal passion that is, I think, is a prerequisite to doing good science early: exceptional mentorship. I'm sure this is what @SeyoneC received from you, and from personal experience, it was, and still is, a huge determinant of my own research quality. Particularly important if you want to get started on research young – to build good habits, learn how to ask the right questions, design experiments, falsify hypotheses, etc., all things I'm still learning. Mentorship doesn't always scale quickly (especially with ever-increasing funding constraints), so a few years ago, some friends and I (@benjamin0chang + @izzymgm) launched @openbio_lab at Harvard – a student-run bio community and biomakerspace to help underclassmen w/out access to prior research training get excited about and engaged with science. Similar idea behind @NucleateDojo and @thedojohouse – to help the “kids be better than ever before,” especially when research projects that OpenBio students pursue are impact-oriented. That said, IMHO, student science communities can complement but can't substitute dedicated expert mentorship.

@Ppl_not_profits What an obnoxious article. Gave it a read to see if the title was misleading. Not at all.

The partition of India, the culmination of British 'divide and rule' policy, was one of the bloodiest chapters in modern human history. With millions dead and injured, it caused mass insecurity, suspicion, chaos. The full scale of the destruction and the human cost is unfathomable. It is a scar the subcontinent has yet to recover from.

@gabriel_zucman How will it work? Countries already tax profits of the shareholders where it accrues. Do you mean taxing the share wealth proportionate to sales?

What do we want? Tariffs for oligarchs When we do we want them? now!

This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies. Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons. I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1

@UnamPillai Sorry. Missed this: it was a wonderful conversation and enjoyed thoroughly.

@gokul_gr Thanks!

"Pillai is at the top of his game in this book..He is a solid, well-trained historian..He knows how to dive into & (more importantly) emerge from the rabbit holes that historical research is pitted with." Thrilled that Arshia Sattar read & liked my book! theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/h…

@hephsyyy Nice to see this. But 100 pages! Substantive content starting at page 25. That will dishearten potential readers. Should have kept it brief and accessible.

@gokul_gr And this one here for You lbsnaa.gov.in/lbsnaa_sub/upl…

This looks like a great document. Available online at main.sci.gov.in/pdf/LU/1608202…

@DasguptaZico Thanks for the clarification.

@gokul_gr (3) I think it requires examining the recent nature of transmission mechanism from nominal exchange rate to prices. Only under adequately weak response of prices would a sharp nominal depreciation would lead to real depreciation.

Some thoughts on rupee devaluation and exchange rate policy in today's Hindu.