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’.
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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’.
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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.”
03.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0For those who didn’t have the time to watch the whole video, or those who prefer text as a medium.
02.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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“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.”
22.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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. 😉
21.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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. 😉
21.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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”
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“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.”
15.02.2026 07:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wait till they hear about people who don’t go to parties at all
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A quietly remarkable Indian businessperson, philanthropist and citizen.
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Superb takedown of the McKinsey report on philanthropic leadership by the always on point @philxbuchanan.bsky.social
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“This is how democratic censorship often works today. It does not silence by decree. It silences by changing the costs of speaking.”
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Wooden sign with the words ‘Egg’s To Order’.
Where is Lynne Truss when you need her?
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PM-CARES: Neither fish nor fowl, escapes the scrutiny owed by both public and private entities.
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Another day, another instance of Indian women achieving the impossible by attempting the previously unthinkable.
06.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain, makes a non-ideological case for immigration.
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The original recipe for samosas is quite dire abhijeetmakesthings.com/2025/01/17/n...
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Banner on the side of a brick building with illustrations of Anne Frank and Hind Rajab. The text reads: Never again means never again for everyone.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
27.01.2026 11:08 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Rose in shades of pink.
From my balcony garden.
27.01.2026 07:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.
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Six smiling children with Hindi text saying Justice Freedom Equality Fraternity
To the values that our republic is founded on.
26.01.2026 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"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...
The 2026 AWID calendar: 12 months of dreaming a better world featuring feminist art from around the world.
Each month brings you dreams of resistance, healing and radical imagination.
Download via https://bit.ly/4a8XyBv
Reminded today of the treaty commemorated by this plaque on the Treasury building in Washington DC. It prevented a war between the USA and Canada over territory in New Brunswick / Maine almost 200 years ago.
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Remembering Gene Sharp, one of my all-time heroes, on his birth anniversary.
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Gitanjali Angmo said that the matter was an “open and shut case” and said the detention reflected the “state of democracy in the country”, where power was being used to illegally detain “people who have been working for this country”.
Read more: scroll.in/latest/10900...
#SonamWangchuk
#MLKDay
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