Pratik Mahajan

A ★★★★★ review of Hamnet (2025) Hamnet reminded me why the movie threatre can be a spiritual space, a reminder we all need at a time when big corporate acquisitions present the biggest threat to the cinema experience. I have felt pa...

Jessie Buckley is everything
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That scene overwhelmed me with joy and grief that I will spend days unpacking. The moment when Agnes reaches out her hand to Hamlet on stage, an embodiment of the lost son that William searches everywhere and can only create but never bring back to life, has an otherworldly power

What can i say about Jessie Buckley. In Women Talking she was a powerhouse. She has the most remarkable expressions. But the emotions she evoked in the last five minutes with no dialogue was perhaps the best bit of acting I have ever seen.

The child actors playing Hamnet and Judith broke me into a million pieces. Jacobi Jupe is a remarkable find and Hamnet should win the casting Oscar just for him alone.

I have felt pain before. I have felt love before. And I have envied those who can love before. Hamnet made me feel all three along with the most profound grief for a relation I will never have - that of sibling, and for one that I am yet to have - that of being a parent.

Hamnet reminded me why the movie theatre can be a spiritual space, a reminder we all need at a time when big corporate acquisitions present the biggest threat to the cinema experience. 1/n #Hamnet #JessieBuckley

Nolan dodged a bullet by dropping Warner Brothers in 2021. But oh to know that most of his masterpieces will now be available for the binge service...

The implications of this will be severe. This is like Google acquiring Microsoft.

In December 2024, while planning my finances for the next six years, I had applied a conversion rate adjustment of 2.5 percent per year, expecting the rate to reach 90 by May 2028 when I return to India for fieldwork. Today is December 3, 2025. #RupeeVsDollar

First time being invited to peer review for an academic journal and I've been assigned as Reviewer 2. I guess this is the universe determining for me the kind of reviewer I will be for life.

Exciting work from Maharashtra on rural elite capture by the amazing @alyssarheinze.bsky.social

Clinton was secretary of state only for 4 years. John Kerry took over the second Obama term

What a year for cinema. From the ashes of COVID, we get our best year yet since 2019.

Was great to be in Beautiful British Columbia to present and think about research!

And Feyaad will present the other paper on an exciting Theme Panel about Parties and Democracy in India.
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At @apsa.bsky.social next week, I want to invite everyone to our panel where I present one of two papers from new joint work with @feyaadallie.bsky.social on non-partisan CSOs as distinct intermediaries linking parties and voters. We have an excellent panel on electoral politics and inclusion!

Officially matriculated at Yale! Excited for the years of learning ahead with my poli sci cohort!

It would be interesting to see these disaggregated by subfield/open positions. I have no priors for this but it seems as though the number of CP positions has plummeted

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library How do parties in multiethnic societies shape voter attitudes toward female candidates? We address this question, focusing on parties with ideologies that contain ethnonationalist gender norms—patria...

Ethnonationalist Gender Norms: How Parties Shape Voter Attitudes toward Female Candidates in India - Thomas - 2024 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Did the number of positions REDUCE over the past month from June 2025 to July 2025? Or is that just the total number of positions added each month rather than the cumulative number of positions posted?

And here is the link for the dataset available on Harvard Dataverse: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... (4/4)

Here is the link for the dataset on SHRUG's User Contribution page: devdatalab.org/shrug_downlo... (3/4)

The LGD codes allow me to achieve 90% accuracy in linking SHRUG village identifiers with their corresponding GPs, and above 95% accuracy in most Indian states. Hope it will be of use to those trying to combine village and GP level datasets. (2/4)

New dataset alert 🚨 Using LGD codes assigned by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in India, I link villages across India with SHRUG (@devdatalab) identifiers to their corresponding Gram Panchayats, allowing for GP level analysis of census and other village-level data. (1/4)

This is the best and the worst Dall-E update ever. Did Studio Ghibli agree to this?

I have learned a lot from:

Saad Gulzar Who Enters Politics and Why

Kate Baldwin Traditional Authorities around the world

Pavithra Suryanarayan Endogenous State Capacity

Thank you so much Bhumi!

Congratulations Mathias, have learnt so much from your scholarship as a student! Looking forward to presenting at APSA at the same panel in Vancouver!

Thank you so much Saad!

Thank you again for your generosity Danny!