The South Asia Report

presumably since only 15% have caste specific names, the 10% penalty after controlling for pre-college skills, academic
performance, and other employer-relevant factors suggests not enough controls?

compelling fact: 85% of surnames do not
convey caste signals in urban-educated settings (e.g., elite colleges typically located in urban
centers) due to migration and geographical variation in naming conventions (Mamidi, 2011;
Jodhka, 2015; Wiltshire, 2020).

Budget 2025: How India’s wealth shifted to the pockets of top 1% About 11.4 per cent of India’s total wealth was in the hands of the people in the bottom 50 per cent bracket in the year 1961, this nearly halved to 6.5 per cent in the year 2023, according to the Wor...

"Trump's nominee for US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that India's middle class is bigger than the entire population of America." ...

Context =

India's 90th percentile of income ~ $15k. www.indiatoday.in/business/sto...

some context about the recent events in Nepal ...

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Chart Title: Enrolment in education has risen across all levels in India Description: A line chart showing India’s Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from 1971 to 2022 for three levels: Primary (blue), Secondary (purple), and Tertiary (yellow). Primary rises from about 77% to 108% by 2022, with a note that GER above 100% reflects underage and overage enrolment. Secondary climbs steadily from about 24% to 79%. Tertiary increases from about 5% to 32%. Source: World Development Indicators, World Bank Attribution: DataForIndia.com/enrolment-in-education/ | CC BY

🧵 One of the most remarkable stories of change in India has been the successful effort to bring most children into schools.

#Enrolment #Education #HigherEducation #India #DataForIndia

Burning ₹168 to Earn ₹100 Tamil Nadu’s civil service hopefuls give up nearly 1.68 times as much in lost earnings (and coaching fees) as the state will ever pay in salary (see Table 2.5 in Mangal, 2023 (PDF); see MR as well). A...

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Gandhi And His Critics - By Gaurav in India — 07 Mar 2014 Gandhi And His Critics Gandhi could never come to terms with the fact that he took leave from his dying father to have sex with his wife; his father died while he copulated. This episode produced a lifelong obsession with overco…

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Even 'India is the enemy' (page 68 ...?) was only 61% in 2009 ...

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Pakistani Public Opinion Ever More Critical of U.S. Following a year of tensions between their country and the United States, Pakistanis continue to hold highly unfavorable views of the U.S. and offer bleak assessments of the relationship between the t...

TIL

"Roughly three-in-four Pakistanis (74%) consider the U.S. an enemy, up from 69% last year and 64% three years ago."

From 2012.

www.pewresearch.org/global/2012/...

Estimating the true extent of road accident fatalities By official statistics, India has the largest number of reported deaths from road accidents of any country. But these are likely significant underestimates.

"[accidents] are the leading cause of mortality among men aged 15-29, responsible for more than one-quarter of the deaths every year in this age group."

www.dataforindia.com/road-acciden...

There was conventional wisdom a decade ago that China can't do software. Today, Tencent is ~700B, Alibaba about half that. India's largest software company is TCS, with a net worth of ~ 125B

There was conventional wisdom a decade ago that China can't do software. Today, Tencent is ~700B, Alibaba about half that. India's largest software company is TCS, with a net worth of ~ 125B

Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi - By Gaurav in Gender — 19 Nov 2017 Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi Photo by Ibrahim Rifath / Unsplash In 1990, Amartya Sen estimated that more than 100 million women were missing in South and West Asia and China. His NYRB article shed light…

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A Pink Revolution in Indian Policymaking The 2025 Union budget earmarks 8.86%* of the total expenditure for gender-related programs (see MWCD). Pair that with the fact that over the last five years, more than 14 states have introduced women-...

www.gojiberries.io/pink-budget-...

YouTube video by ThePrint Shekhar Gupta | A reporter's diary: From meeting 'lion of Kandahar' to 'buying' tanks in Pakistan

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PryD...

Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa - By Gaurav in Interviews — 13 Jun 2007 Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of Cracking India and The Crow Eaters . She currently lives in Houston, Texas. What does your name Bapsi mean? Who gave you the name? My grandmother doted on the British.…

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Chart Title: How many factories are there in urban and rural India? Description: A line chart showing the number of operational factories in India from 2001 to 2023, split between urban (yellow line) and rural (dark blue line) regions. The y-axis shows the number of factories from 0 to 120,000, while the x-axis shows years from 2001 to 2023. Key Points: - Urban factories increased dramatically from 80,180 in 2001 to 115,658 in 2023, with the steepest growth between 2005-2012 - Rural factories grew more steadily from 43,682 in 2001 to 90,865 in 2023, more than doubling over the period - Factories add 90% of the economic value created by manufacturing, while employing 18.5 million workers in India Source: Annual Survey of Industries, MoSPI Attribution: DataForIndia.com/factories/ | CC BY

🧵 Manufacturing is a key driver of India’s economy, contributing 15% of the gross value added while providing 10% of jobs nationwide.

#Factories #Jobs #Manufacturing #Economy #India #DataForIndia

BJPolS abstract discussing the role of religion in misinformation and polarization, specifically within the context of India. The text highlights methods and findings from a study exploring how religious identities can amplify or reduce the effects of misinformation.

NEW -

The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - cup.org/472gDEr

- @simonchauchard.bsky.social & @sumitra.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Interpretation. NDA tended to win larger seats and by bigger margins (which should raise its winner‑surplus waste). Yet NDA still shows lower total wasted votes and a lower wasted share than INDIA. The dominant driver is loss‑side waste: INDIA accumulated many more votes in seats it did not win ...

GitHub - in-rolls/wasted_votes: wasted_votes wasted_votes. Contribute to in-rolls/wasted_votes development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/in-rolls/was...

Less Known Facts About Muslims in India There are two main concerns about Indian Muslims. First, many fear that Indian Muslims are greatly behind other groups. The second, deeper concern relates to Muslim women. Many fear that sex gaps are ...

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Chart Title: Men are twice as likely as women to have most ICT skills in India Description: This chart compares ICT skills between women and men across rural and urban India in 2023, showing percentage of adults (15+) who reported having specific digital skills in the three months preceding the survey. Key Points: - In rural areas, the gender gap is significant across all skills: email (13% women vs 26% men), installing software (12% women vs 24% men), spreadsheet formulas (4% women vs 7% men), and creating presentations (2% women vs 5% men). - In urban areas, there is higher overall skill levels but maintain similar gender disparities: email (32% women vs 48% men), installing software (27% women vs 43% men), spreadsheet formulas (13% women vs 22% men), and presentations (10% women vs 16% men). Source: CAMS, Round 79, National Statistics Office 2022-23 Attribution: DataForIndia.com/ict-skills/ | CC BY

🧵 Access to mobile phones and the internet in India has expanded rapidly over the last decade. However, there is a gap in the technical skills needed to use these technologies effectively to communicate, learn and work.

#ICT #Technology #DigitalIndia #India #DataForIndia

Sergio Gor, Donald Trump’s close political aide, named next U.S. ambassador to India President Trump nominates Sergio Gor as U.S. ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs.

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would nominate Sergio Gor, one of his closest aides, to be the next U.S. ambassador to India, where he will oversee frosty relations that have worsened with the planned doubling of U.S. tariffs on India next week.
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My coauthored CSIS report with Tina Dolbaia on Russia-India relations has now been released.

www.csis.org/analysis/gun...

APT36: A PHISHING CAMPAIGN TARGETING INDIAN GOVERNMENT ENTITIES - CYFIRMA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A sophisticated phishing campaign, possibly attributed to Pakistan-linked APT36 (Transparent Tribe) is targeting Indian defense organizations and related...

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Internal migration of agricultural workers in India leads to a downsizing of farms near cities and an expansion in remote areas, prompting a spatial reorganisation of agriculture.

Read today's article to learn more:

C. P. Krishnan Nair - Wikipedia

Nair opened the first Leela hotel at the age of 71: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._K...

Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting States bet on sports gambling, but their residents could be paying the price.

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pair w/

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"In particular, none of the sampled female [village] presidents (sarpanch) and only 28 percent (3 percent) of the sampled male presidents have a multiterm experience as member (president) of the GP."
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