On Vacation in #India with some good #books. Excited to finally read the next book by @szattwellauthor. Good to be back in #Delhi - more photos to follow over rhe next few weeks!
Just published this week's edition of Weekly Numerics, where I highlight noteworthy data from the week.
In this edition, I discuss:
--How #india GDP growth rate rose marginally above expectations (with a little help from favourable base effect), but, a deficit in rainfall have become a cause for concern.
-- How the gender imbalance in India's workforce has led to women being largely employed in low-paying jobs such as wage labour
Animals are not here on the Earth for us, but with us. Their lives are as important to them as ours are to us. Those who love animals, who believe that the stronger harming the weaker is bullying, and that exploiting another being for our own ends is unacceptable, often come to veganism to right these injustices
I read Guha's biography of Verrier Elwin years ago. Elwin was a British anthropologist who chose to become Indian (the first European after 1947) and who worked to lift up the Indigenous peoples of the Northeast. Highly recommended.
I'm saddened but not surprised that he would be caught up in the latest problems in the Northeast. When you can fix the present, you blame the past.
Has anyone got a longer version of that #BBCNews clip that's doing the rounds of the presenter asking whether #India should be spending money on space exploration? Or did anyone see it live? I'd like to verify whether what I've seen is genuine (not manipulated — it wouldn't surprise me if it's real but I'd like to be sure).
Is this signature written by hand directly onto the book, or is it a printed version of a handwritten signature? I want it to be the former, but my colleague thinks it's the latter.
It's of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
Happy Independence Day to India! May you continue to show the world your beauty, strength, and wisdom.
Photo taken at O.P. Jindal Global University at Sonipat, Haryana, India on 15 August 2015.
Every year, the university would have a ceremony to raise the flag (one of the largest in India). The flag area was the center of campus and frequently had events and ceremonies for the university.
Recent amendments, allowed flag made from machine (earlier only hand spun and hand woven flags were allowed) and of polyester material. Also, flags in "open or displayed on the house of a member of the public, it may be flown day and night” now.
India was liberated from the British Empire, ending one of the most brutal crimes in history. We look back at the Empire in horror while committing even worse crimes against nonhuman animals for profit and pleasure.
Consumers should make an informed decision about the products they consume. Replacement of the calories obtained from meat with those from milk and dairy products is not rational if animal welfare is considered.
📝 "Why Milk Consumption is the Bigger Problem: Ethical Implications and Deaths per Calorie Created of Milk Compared to Meat Production", Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
My Bollywood Dream is a love letter to Bollywood movies and to Mumbai. With beautiful illustrations, this picture book is a celebration of dance, music, cinema, Indian culture and dreams.
Who was Rabindranath Tagore and why is his work and teaching still so influential today?
From the archives, a special programme celebrating the life and work of the Nobel-prize winning poet, musician, and reformer who died in August 1941. Listen on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b012wckp
Someone firmly planted in his native soil but adept at working on a global canvas.
Tagore is someone who has so much to say about the way we live today. His philosophy on nationalism, education, and aesthetics are deeply engaging.
He really went to his own beat (a bit like Gandhi in that he is politically unclassifiable) and he remained true to his sometimes idiosyncratic visions.