“India is home to some of the greatest transformative movements — Satyagraha and non-violence, land reform, dairy cooperatives, the Chipko Movement — all rooted in grassroots civic action…Let us not allow the space for civic action to shrink in the pursuit of the holy grail of outcome monitoring.”
#everywomaneveryday
Annual reminder. #WomensDay
Older women are arguably among the least well represented in public policy. Will the new quota for women in Parliament change that?
How social sector innovations like SHGs and MNREGA have influenced women’s participation in elections in India, and how intersectional factors of religion, caste, and gender influence their responses to ‘freebies’.
India has for some years now been labelled an electoral autocracy. This piece suggests that “opposition by non-electoral means is only a step away from losing even the formal framework of competitive politics.”
For those who didn’t have the time to watch the whole video, or those who prefer text as a medium.
The way we now follow wars on social media like TV shows or sporting events shows how deeply broken we have become.
War turns into content. Suffering becomes spectacle. Empathy disappears.
We are scrolling our way back to the coliseum. ⚔️🩸📲
Maybe your computer keeps asking if you’re a robot because it’s just looking for a friend? You ever think about that? No, of course not, because you only think about yourself. Typical human.
“There is no uniquely deviant “Epstein class.” Instead, we have something far worse: a system that can create deviance in nearly anyone and everyone, if the incentives are right.”
I enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with Gagan Sethi and Minar Pimple on the state of #civilsociety, #philanthropy, and #CSR in India and how we might collectively address it. Bonus: thoughts on how activists of ‘a certain age’ might gainfully deploy their experience. 😉
I enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with Gagan Sethi and Minar Pimple on the state of #civilsociety, #philanthropy, and #CSR in India and how we might collectively address it. Bonus: thoughts on how activists of ‘a certain age’ might gainfully deploy their experience. 😉
NGO Committee revokes status for accredited groups through arbitrary, gravely concerning process.
In a setback for civil society, members of the Committee on NGOs moved to strip two organisations of their consultative status, with more NGOs likely to face similar action.
https://ow.ly/MkII50YguPB
“There are now more places to sell plasma than there are Costco stores [in the US] — and more are popping up in solidly middle-class neighborhoods”
“The stock market’s Magnificent Seven chase growth. The charitable sector’s Magnificent Seven protect people. In moments of pressure and threat, that mission is not something to soften or hide. It is something to defend — clearly, collectively, and without fear. It’s long past time to stand up.”
Wait till they hear about people who don’t go to parties at all
Superb takedown of the McKinsey report on philanthropic leadership by the always on point @philxbuchanan.bsky.social
“This is how democratic censorship often works today. It does not silence by decree. It silences by changing the costs of speaking.”
Where is Lynne Truss when you need her?
PM-CARES: Neither fish nor fowl, escapes the scrutiny owed by both public and private entities.
Another day, another instance of Indian women achieving the impossible by attempting the previously unthinkable.
Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain, makes a non-ideological case for immigration.
The original recipe for samosas is quite dire abhijeetmakesthings.com/2025/01/17/n...
#HolocaustMemorialDay
From my balcony garden.
If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.
To the values that our republic is founded on.
"India’s cowardly and short-sighted foreign policy has robbed the world of a vital voice to fight against discrimination, racist bigotry, and imperialism, failing not only itself, but also the world."
My piece. m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
