Raina Ghosh

Firsts are always special + it came out on birthday🤩! Excited to share with you my piece dovetailing social infrastructures and faith in the ghat spaces of Kolkata. Happy reading this December issue @epw_rua curated by Prof. @Gopabugeo69 and Prof. Ratoola Kundu

Rural women are driving the digital revolution in India & through @DEFindia, they’re bridging the digital divide & transforming communities. This #IWD2025 let's celebrate their impact. Read DEF Log by Dr. @rainaghosh29 - bit.ly/4koBt56 @saurabh0426 | @latentappy

The Telegraph front page today.

My new tek in @Outlookindia. SWORDS IN THE TIME OF SHOTGUNS More than anything else, the sword is about social status. It is about being a Kshatriya. It is about claiming the Kshatriya impunity. More than cut value, it is about cult value. Read & Share. outlookindia.com/national/sword…

"It is puzzling that [India's] claim of rising global stature is being made amidst deteriorating relative economic development. How do we make sense of this?" thewire.in/economy/the-ec…

"India's vulgar inequalities are staring back at us from all directions... Inequality denialism will only exacerbate India's ballooning inequality crisis."

"...for the first time in 150 years, a whole decade has gone by with no official comprehensive data on India or its people." #India #PublicHealth

What is the point of accepting applications and abstracts of students from south asia when you can neither provide them funding (not even partial) nor hybrid mode to join in?!!! Frustrating!!

In research with young women, @AtJuliaKing and Olivia Theocharides-Feldman found that benches, as spaces to “hang out”, were essential but also contentious spaces. Read their article 'The Bench, Young Women, and Public Life' in Vestre Journal issue 1 vestre.com/uploads/docume…

A light piece on the social history of ghats. Thanks @leo_mukherjee for the opportunity!

This is such a fantastic piece of reporting! A must-read! No wonder they fear @newsclickin. Arundhati Roy was right about 4 Gujaratis now ruling India — 2 are selling and the other 2 are buying! #CronyCapitalism newsclick.in/amazing-zoo-st…

Five critical schemes (NREGA, MDM, ICDS, NSAP, PMMVY) that help hundreds of millions of children, widows, pregnant women, elderly persons and rural workers don’t even absorb 0.5% of India’s GDP anymore.

Sprawling bazaar of nineteenth century Faizabad, Ayodhya district, bustling with fruit and food vendors, flower sellers, horsemen, hookah smokers, betel nut crackers, sugarcane bundles, turban tiers, and more. A shahrashob (the city of beauty/lament of a city) moment.

JNU reading preamble at different places.

Have you ever wondered who really owns & controls global capital? New research from PhD candidate Albina Gibadullina reveals how much capital US funds own locally & globally. 🏦💵 Learn how the 'Big Three' are remaking the global geography of investments: bit.ly/albina-gibadul…

“Those of us outside the European moral imagination do not exist in their philosophical universe. "Arabs, Iranians and Muslims- we don't have any ontological reality, except as a metaphysical menace that must be conquered” ✍️ Opinion by @DabashiHamid pulse.ly/0si05nnyt8

"India’s academic freedom index is in the bottom 30% among 179 countries... On a scale of 0 (low) to 1 (high), India scored 0.38... What’s ironic is that this score is lower than India’s bête noire Pakistan’s 0.43." thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Post-secular narratives on Kolkata and the Hooghly Riverfront, entailing material politics of making sacred spaces at land-water interfaces, have been seldom discussed in urban planning scholarship. epw.in/journal/2023/5…

“We’re going to make it impossible to use Jewish grief for U.S. imperial interests. They’re going to have to name the real reasons for U.S. policy: Power, weapons, oil, racism, Islamophobia. They cannot do this in our name” Jews Rally in DC to Stop #Gazagenocide #FreePalestine