Tanu Kumar

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Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

To what extent do we think he’s still using the same strategy…???

Are primaries and general elections different, and primaries in places where the general will be competitive?

Sure many academic books are padded articles but also

Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers - McCourt School of Public Policy Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to support research in AI, digital governance and ethics of emerging technologies.

Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here:

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I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.

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My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv

Hello! I work in development, studying governance from the perspective of local officials and citizen interactions. Focus on India. Thanks for highlighting all of this cool work!

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Statement by President Jimmy Carter included on the Voyager Golden Record: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud Amazon.com: Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: 9781419766398: McKenzie, Ben, Silverman, Jacob: Books

ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto

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Tweet from Trump that says: “Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party. She should keep trying. Someday, she will be successful!”

You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀

GLD Policy Brief No.26: "Mind the Gap: Citizen-led Efforts to Build Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Rural India."

How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1

By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.

we'd really be able to boost our leverage of franklin pierce and longfellow

i bet uc berkeley goes way down once school size is accounted for

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.

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Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them:

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🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Young Bihari women are India’s brave new coders. Bengaluru is their dream As the women work on their coding tasks at the residential school, the trainer plays music from her phone to keep the atmosphere lively. Only English pop—to help them learn the language.

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Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
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Isn’t it just low wage?