Rammanohar Reddy

> The mission of Equator is to hold up a mirror to a global audience of readers and writers who don’t yet recognise themselves as belonging together.

Hell yeah. Paulo Freire would be proud.

Tom Ley Thinks More People Should Experience Worker-Owned Journalism As Defector turns five, the founding editor reflects on what he’s learned.

Defector's Tom Ley thinks more people should experience worker-owned journalism.! 🦋
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How The Intercept Fought to Reveal Key Evidence in Student Deportation Cases In critical cases involving pro-Palestine speech, The Intercept convinced courts to make the full dockets public.

We’ve been successful in eight federal courts, six districts, and two federal appellate circuits — and we’re doing the same in other cases across the country.

There are momentous changes taking place in US society and the economy and we’d be foolish not to recognise thier significance and act appropriately.
My piece in @scroll.in today #Trump #Tariffs

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King Ludd in the 21st Century Trump seeks to disrupt the old order with policies that he promises will reverse the fall in labour's share of the American pie. But these inchoate actions also threaten the size of the pie. The march...

"Trump’s scattershot, shifting, chaotic policies have, wittingly or unwittingly, a thematic coherence and political message." Understanding Trump's economics which are rooted in his politics:
#Trump #USEconomy #Inequality
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Accused Of Extrajudicial Killings By Families of Victims, Former Maoists-Turned-Police Troopers Say They Yearn For Peace In 2024, 287 Maoists were killed in Chhattisgarh, 812 arrested and 723 surrendered, making it the most successful year for the security forces, in a war of attrition spread over half a century. Senior...

“I now wear a different uniform”

Sanju Mandavi, who joined the Maoists in Chhattisgarh at the age of 10, tells Raksha Kumar he surrendered to the police after 11 years of battle. A few months later, he began fighting his former comrades

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Speaking for Nature’s Spokespersons The early environmentalists featured in ‘Speaking with Nature’ offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming ecological...

"India's early environmentalists offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming ecological collapse" Ashish Kothari reviews Ramachandra Guha's book.
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India and Germany: A Two-Way Learning Street There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India has been...

There can be a two-way street between India and Germany writes Harsh Mander.
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March 7, 2025 The India Forum is India’s digital destination for the best long-form comment on contemporary issues presented in a reader-friendly magazine-like style.

The March issue of @theindiaforum.bsky.social has just been published. Read the aritcles on India as a 'rising power', on state insurance schemes, reviews of books by Sunil Amrith, Janaki Bhakle, Bela Bhatia and much more...https://www.theindiaforum.in/issues/march-7-2025

Psychology in India: A Critical Perspective on its Growing Popularity in Universities The search for oneself in these neoliberal times, a job market for psychologists, and the emergence of an “Indian psychology” explain the current popularity of this academic discipline in India. What ...

What explains the popularity of #Psychology as a subject for university students today? Rachana Johri unpacks the many currents in the discipline.
#Universities #Students #Colleges
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Empowering Local Governments in India’s Federal Structure Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by strengthenin...

With MK Stalin highlighting the issue of #Delimitation again and the possible negative impacts on some states, Sunil Kumar argues that we should be looking elsewhere to improve representation and administration.
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The US has gone bonkers.

How Healthy is Health Insurance? State-sponsored health insurance schemes are growing by leaps and bounds in India. Ensuring that they serve the public interest rather than private profit is a major challenge. Insurance apart, what I...

A survey of the state of state health insurance programmes at the States which have exploded in the past 10-15 years.
#India #Health #Insurance
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A Call to Understand, Feel, and Act Bela Bhatia fervently urges privileged groups to recognise and respond to the struggles of the marginalised. She acknowledges caste’s influence, but does not fully confront its pervasive role, instead...

A review of the writings of an indomitable fighter for India's marginalised:
"This is more than just a compelling read—it is an invitation. For young people from privileged backgrounds, it offers a window into an India they might otherwise never encounter."
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Counting the Environmental Costs of AI Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.

"In Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company said it consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, or about 10 days’ worth of water for the entire city of London." From @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
#AI #Google

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Is the Rise in Female Work Participation due to an Odd Set of Instructions to Enumerators? Given the high degree of informality in the Indian economy, national employment surveys have drawn up complex instructions to capture all those who work. This however also comes with the risk that mis...

When too detailed a set of instructions to enumerators can led to quirky results. Example of #PLFS and measurment of women's economic status in India. By PC Mohanan and Aloke Khar
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NITI Aayog has Failed. India Needs a New Institutional Compact Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution fac...

A federal institution facilitating political-level cooperation is crucial to respond to the demands of a modern economy
By Yamini Aiyar of Brown University
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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...

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RIP fierce one

Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024 Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...

"...life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 yrs during the first 12 months of the war, about half the prewar level..."

Guillot, M, M Draidi, V Cetorelli, José HCM Da Silva, & I Lubbad. 2025. Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip during the Period Oct, 2023, to Sep, 2024. The Lancet.

Sitharaman: "*This* category of taxpayers is the one which is helping run the country..."

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When Big Business Influences the State and Foreign Policy in India Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using t...

'Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests. This is not without reputational risks for India.'
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Masculine apology - getting your VP to say sorry for you. "Calling it an “inadvertent error”, Meta India has apologised for ...Zuckerberg’s statement that the incumbent government in India lost elections in 2024 due to its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic." www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

Meta India apologises for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remark on 2024 elections, terms it “inadvertent error” Meta India VP apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg's incorrect remarks on India's 2024 elections, debunked by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Bend the knee to Trump, now Modi
Who is next?
Neytanyahu, Xi, Piton, Oban, Erdogan
#Facebook #meta #zuckerberg
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Resist Surveillance Tech, Reject Digi Yatra Digi Yatra continues to raise privacy, surveillance, exclusion and transparency concerns, made worse by the highly disturbing manner in which it is currently being deployed at airports – with coercion...

On Digi Yatra, @internetfreedom.bsky.social has many critiques on privacy beginning with this one. 2/2

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True. But considering that growth in air traffic in India is being driven majorly by first-time air travellers, the overlap may not be close to 100% and even if a fraction don’t have passports I’d say we shouldn’t make that the mandatory ID, better to have a choice as now (other than in Digi) 1/2

Threats To Beat & Boycott, Inciting Violence Against Muslims: BJP’s Nitesh Rane, With 20 FIRs, Is Now A Maharashtra Minister He calls Muslims Pakistani pimps, green pigs and green snakes; threatens to strip, beat them and urges Hindus to boycott them and demolish mosques. The police have filed—on court directions—20 first i...

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Biometric “passport” as in a passport for int travel? Many still don’t have passports & this would cause problems for immediate/criss travel.
Any other biometric doc suffers from the same problems as Aadhaar.
As a matter of principle I don’t use Digiyatra. But compulsion will eventually happen.

Delhi Riots: How A False Case Ripped Through The Lives Of 4 Muslim Men, Latest Of More Than 180 Acquitted On 28 February 2020, the Delhi police booked six Muslim men, aged between 28 and 58, on allegations of rioting and arson. Before getting bail, two men were jailed—one for 15 days and the other for 75 ...

His business was looted & house burnt during #DelhiRiots, but Hashim Ali, 58, went on trial for rioting. In 2024, 4 years after 75 days in jail, he & 5 co-accused were acquitted, like >180 over 4 yrs. Adnan Ali, Aqib Nazir and Huda Ayisha report

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8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025 From Moldova to Mexico, these conflicts are currently flying under the radar but could emerge as major flash points.

Foreign Policy asked me to pick a conflict to watch for in 2025. I chose Manipur, with its geopolitical ramifications.

It is not predictive but a warning that Manipur deserves more attention than it has received from experts on geopolitical risk.