Bansari
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As the recent tensions between India and Pakistan as well as broader trends in China’s hydro-politics show, water is becoming increasingly weaponized in the context of South Asia’s geopolitical rivalries, Bansari Kamdar writes.
South Asia’s Rivals Are Weaponizing Water for Geopolitical Gain
As climate change and geopolitical tensions converge, South Asia’s fragile hydro-politics could be entering a dangerous new era of conflict.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As the recent tensions between India and Pakistan as well as broader trends in China’s hydro-politics show, water is becoming increasingly weaponized in the context of South Asia’s geopolitical rivalries, Bansari Kamdar writes.
“In South Asian culture, marriage is less a choice and more a graduation,” writes Zahra Haider, in her tender essay on navigating marriage in South Asia and the need to reimagine it.
April 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“In South Asian culture, marriage is less a choice and more a graduation,” writes Zahra Haider, in her tender essay on navigating marriage in South Asia and the need to reimagine it.
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With across-the-board tariffs, South Asian countries could face increased costs borne by garment-makers and a possible decline in US consumer demand.
As @bansari.bsky.social writes, that will affect female workers disproportionately.
As @bansari.bsky.social writes, that will affect female workers disproportionately.
In South Asia, Women Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Tariffs
Women are the backbone of South Asia’s massive textile industry. Trump’s trade war could result in significant job losses and wage cuts for them.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
With across-the-board tariffs, South Asian countries could face increased costs borne by garment-makers and a possible decline in US consumer demand.
As @bansari.bsky.social writes, that will affect female workers disproportionately.
As @bansari.bsky.social writes, that will affect female workers disproportionately.
If you own T-shirts from H&M and Zara, or shoes from Nike, chances are at least some of them were made in textile factories in South Asia, where labor is cheap - and predominantly female.
April 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you own T-shirts from H&M and Zara, or shoes from Nike, chances are at least some of them were made in textile factories in South Asia, where labor is cheap - and predominantly female.
Interesting reads so far this month:
1. Sara Ahmed, the queen of feminist killjoys, in her latest Substack reflects on microaggressions and how power is reproduced by making some forms of violence and harm seem small and subjective.
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/its-not-a-...
1. Sara Ahmed, the queen of feminist killjoys, in her latest Substack reflects on microaggressions and how power is reproduced by making some forms of violence and harm seem small and subjective.
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/its-not-a-...
It's not a fucking microaggression!
Or some thoughts on marketing books with right-wing talking points
feministkilljoys.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Interesting reads so far this month:
1. Sara Ahmed, the queen of feminist killjoys, in her latest Substack reflects on microaggressions and how power is reproduced by making some forms of violence and harm seem small and subjective.
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/its-not-a-...
1. Sara Ahmed, the queen of feminist killjoys, in her latest Substack reflects on microaggressions and how power is reproduced by making some forms of violence and harm seem small and subjective.
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/its-not-a-...
Chart 4 looks at stark economic disparities globally and the significant differences in GDP per capita by country in 2023.
#30DayChartChallenge
#30DayChartChallenge
April 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Chart 4 looks at stark economic disparities globally and the significant differences in GDP per capita by country in 2023.
#30DayChartChallenge
#30DayChartChallenge
Already running behind on the #30DayChartChallenge but here's a chart for Day 3's circular theme.
It shows the global movement of forcibly displaced people. More than 1 in every 67 people on Earth have been forced to flee, according to UNHCR.
Check it out: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
It shows the global movement of forcibly displaced people. More than 1 in every 67 people on Earth have been forced to flee, according to UNHCR.
Check it out: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
migration flows
A Flourish data visualization by Bansari Kamdar
public.flourish.studio
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Already running behind on the #30DayChartChallenge but here's a chart for Day 3's circular theme.
It shows the global movement of forcibly displaced people. More than 1 in every 67 people on Earth have been forced to flee, according to UNHCR.
Check it out: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
It shows the global movement of forcibly displaced people. More than 1 in every 67 people on Earth have been forced to flee, according to UNHCR.
Check it out: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
For Day 2 of the #30DayChartChallenge, here's a grid of slope charts that use India's 2019 and 2024 Time Use Surveys to show the change in how men and women spend their day.
Unsurprisingly, Indian women spent 20% of their day on unpaid work, men spent just 2.6%.
Unsurprisingly, Indian women spent 20% of their day on unpaid work, men spent just 2.6%.
April 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
For Day 2 of the #30DayChartChallenge, here's a grid of slope charts that use India's 2019 and 2024 Time Use Surveys to show the change in how men and women spend their day.
Unsurprisingly, Indian women spent 20% of their day on unpaid work, men spent just 2.6%.
Unsurprisingly, Indian women spent 20% of their day on unpaid work, men spent just 2.6%.
Starting this year's #30DayChartChallenge with this quick pie chart on women's political representation.
In India, women make up less than a fifth of the Parliament and an even smaller fraction of the Cabinet, lagging behind global peers when it comes to representation.
In India, women make up less than a fifth of the Parliament and an even smaller fraction of the Cabinet, lagging behind global peers when it comes to representation.
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Starting this year's #30DayChartChallenge with this quick pie chart on women's political representation.
In India, women make up less than a fifth of the Parliament and an even smaller fraction of the Cabinet, lagging behind global peers when it comes to representation.
In India, women make up less than a fifth of the Parliament and an even smaller fraction of the Cabinet, lagging behind global peers when it comes to representation.
📚Best history book I’ve read this month: White Malice by Susan Williams.
Williams meticulously documents the role played by the CIA in undermining African independence movts from the murder of Congo’s first PM Lumumba to the coup which overthrew Nkrumah’s government in Ghana.
Williams meticulously documents the role played by the CIA in undermining African independence movts from the murder of Congo’s first PM Lumumba to the coup which overthrew Nkrumah’s government in Ghana.
March 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📚Best history book I’ve read this month: White Malice by Susan Williams.
Williams meticulously documents the role played by the CIA in undermining African independence movts from the murder of Congo’s first PM Lumumba to the coup which overthrew Nkrumah’s government in Ghana.
Williams meticulously documents the role played by the CIA in undermining African independence movts from the murder of Congo’s first PM Lumumba to the coup which overthrew Nkrumah’s government in Ghana.
Unsurprisingly, Indian women continue to do a big chunk of the unpaid work in the household, including unpaid domestic services and caregiving, while men lag.
Built a quick graphic on the factsheet released last week by MoSPI on the 2024 time use data:
Built a quick graphic on the factsheet released last week by MoSPI on the 2024 time use data:
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Unsurprisingly, Indian women continue to do a big chunk of the unpaid work in the household, including unpaid domestic services and caregiving, while men lag.
Built a quick graphic on the factsheet released last week by MoSPI on the 2024 time use data:
Built a quick graphic on the factsheet released last week by MoSPI on the 2024 time use data:
The husband raped his wife, a minor, so violently that she died.
Criminalize marital rape.
www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...
Criminalize marital rape.
www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...
Husband jailed for raping wife freed because marital rape not a crime in India
A 40 year-old man was previously convicted of rape and culpable homicide after a trial found his wife, a. minor, died of injuries suffered during forced intercourse
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The husband raped his wife, a minor, so violently that she died.
Criminalize marital rape.
www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...
Criminalize marital rape.
www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...
📌 Finally got around to building a website for my reporting portfolio.
48 hours of hyperfocus later: bansarikamdar.com
Say hello and let me know what you think
48 hours of hyperfocus later: bansarikamdar.com
Say hello and let me know what you think
February 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📌 Finally got around to building a website for my reporting portfolio.
48 hours of hyperfocus later: bansarikamdar.com
Say hello and let me know what you think
48 hours of hyperfocus later: bansarikamdar.com
Say hello and let me know what you think
A beautiful essay by Paromita Vohra on the how patriarchy feeds the fantasy of masculinity to Indian men and what current discourses fail to address.
Notes how our emotional segregation is reflected in the gender segregation of our films. (Thappad v. Animal)
www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumba...
Notes how our emotional segregation is reflected in the gender segregation of our films. (Thappad v. Animal)
www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumba...
January 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A beautiful essay by Paromita Vohra on the how patriarchy feeds the fantasy of masculinity to Indian men and what current discourses fail to address.
Notes how our emotional segregation is reflected in the gender segregation of our films. (Thappad v. Animal)
www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumba...
Notes how our emotional segregation is reflected in the gender segregation of our films. (Thappad v. Animal)
www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumba...
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
— Mary Oliver, from Invitation 🌻
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
— Mary Oliver, from Invitation 🌻
January 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
— Mary Oliver, from Invitation 🌻
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
— Mary Oliver, from Invitation 🌻
Winter morning walk to the fruit market
December 28, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Winter morning walk to the fruit market
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I can't stand it when people say "the first Western journalist to report from". Who cares? What is it supposed to mean? That their reporting will be somehow better than the local journalists already there? Puts me in mind of colonisers "discovering" other people's countries.
December 9, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I can't stand it when people say "the first Western journalist to report from". Who cares? What is it supposed to mean? That their reporting will be somehow better than the local journalists already there? Puts me in mind of colonisers "discovering" other people's countries.
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In the past 5 days:
—Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide
—CEO of largest US health insurance company killed
—Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours
—French government collapses
—Assad regime collapses
Weeks where decades happen…
—Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide
—CEO of largest US health insurance company killed
—Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours
—French government collapses
—Assad regime collapses
Weeks where decades happen…
December 8, 2024 at 7:04 AM
In the past 5 days:
—Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide
—CEO of largest US health insurance company killed
—Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours
—French government collapses
—Assad regime collapses
Weeks where decades happen…
—Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide
—CEO of largest US health insurance company killed
—Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours
—French government collapses
—Assad regime collapses
Weeks where decades happen…
“Honesty has a way of creeping in even when it is not intended”
- John Steinbeck in a letter to John P. McKnight on #journalism
Found this a while ago on @lettersofnote.com.
- John Steinbeck in a letter to John P. McKnight on #journalism
Found this a while ago on @lettersofnote.com.
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 AM
“Honesty has a way of creeping in even when it is not intended”
- John Steinbeck in a letter to John P. McKnight on #journalism
Found this a while ago on @lettersofnote.com.
- John Steinbeck in a letter to John P. McKnight on #journalism
Found this a while ago on @lettersofnote.com.
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
November 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
#booksky Books I read in Nov:
1. Men Who Hate Women
What do Elliot Rodger, pick-up artists and the “your body, my choice” men have in common?
Bates goes undercover in the “manosphere” and uncovers how it grooms and radicalizes vulnerable men and encourages extreme acts of violence against women.
1. Men Who Hate Women
What do Elliot Rodger, pick-up artists and the “your body, my choice” men have in common?
Bates goes undercover in the “manosphere” and uncovers how it grooms and radicalizes vulnerable men and encourages extreme acts of violence against women.
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 AM
#booksky Books I read in Nov:
1. Men Who Hate Women
What do Elliot Rodger, pick-up artists and the “your body, my choice” men have in common?
Bates goes undercover in the “manosphere” and uncovers how it grooms and radicalizes vulnerable men and encourages extreme acts of violence against women.
1. Men Who Hate Women
What do Elliot Rodger, pick-up artists and the “your body, my choice” men have in common?
Bates goes undercover in the “manosphere” and uncovers how it grooms and radicalizes vulnerable men and encourages extreme acts of violence against women.
Patrick Fealey, former award-winning reporter and arts critic for outlets including The Boston Globe and Reuters, writes a harrowing firsthand account of homelessness in America.
If you read only one thing this month, let it be this: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
If you read only one thing this month, let it be this: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Patrick Fealey, former award-winning reporter and arts critic for outlets including The Boston Globe and Reuters, writes a harrowing firsthand account of homelessness in America.
If you read only one thing this month, let it be this: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
If you read only one thing this month, let it be this: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
Hello, Bluesky! Let me know who all I should follow.
+ Follow me for all things financial markets, economy, and inequality. Additionally, brace for some book recommendations and feminist rants.
+ Follow me for all things financial markets, economy, and inequality. Additionally, brace for some book recommendations and feminist rants.
November 20, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Hello, Bluesky! Let me know who all I should follow.
+ Follow me for all things financial markets, economy, and inequality. Additionally, brace for some book recommendations and feminist rants.
+ Follow me for all things financial markets, economy, and inequality. Additionally, brace for some book recommendations and feminist rants.