Arun Kumar
@draykay.bsky.social
Reader in Global Development & Management, King's College London
Disciplinary interloper | Reads widely, writes slowly
Author, Philanthropy & Development of Modern India (OUP, 2021).
Disciplinary interloper | Reads widely, writes slowly
Author, Philanthropy & Development of Modern India (OUP, 2021).
The status of academic freedom in the world's largest democracy. Courtesy: @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The status of academic freedom in the world's largest democracy. Courtesy: @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social
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Well done, Nadia Whittome.
It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.
It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.
The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Well done, Nadia Whittome.
It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.
It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.
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thewire.in/world/magas-... - two figures stand out as unlikely architects of a new Right Wing Order: Charlie Kirk and Michael Anton @martindbbrown.bsky.social @msenn.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @charleskeener.bsky.social @thenation.com
MAGA’s Intellectuals: Kirk, Anton, and the Forging of Trump's America First Empire
Kirk and Anton's combined force has transformed the GOP: from Reagan's shining city on a hill to Trump's fortified bunker.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
thewire.in/world/magas-... - two figures stand out as unlikely architects of a new Right Wing Order: Charlie Kirk and Michael Anton @martindbbrown.bsky.social @msenn.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @charleskeener.bsky.social @thenation.com
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
Trump's America, 2025.
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Trump's America, 2025.
Why I remain hopeful. Even as the older, wealthy Tories are moving enmasse to Reform, the young people are rejecting it outright.
An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."
Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe
Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Why I remain hopeful. Even as the older, wealthy Tories are moving enmasse to Reform, the young people are rejecting it outright.
what else would we expect the Financial Times to say? keep making the case for workers to be taxed more because the wealthy apparently do not take dividends or hoard up assets but only invest in the future.
To boost UK productivity, ordinary workers must bear more of the tax burden on.ft.com/4hGEZqD | opinion
To boost UK productivity, ordinary workers must bear more of the tax burden
The key to restoring both fiscal sustainability and productivity growth is to expand Britain’s most competitive businesses
on.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
what else would we expect the Financial Times to say? keep making the case for workers to be taxed more because the wealthy apparently do not take dividends or hoard up assets but only invest in the future.
I wrote about the history of business schools in India: message me if you would like to read and cannot access a copy:
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#management #India #B-school #history
journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...
#management #India #B-school #history
Management Education as Modernization: The Historical Role of Modernizing Elites | Academy of Management Learning & Education
In extant historiography, management education was exported by U.S. elites, particularly its philanthropic foundations, leading business schools, and academic experts and consultants, to the Global So...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I wrote about the history of business schools in India: message me if you would like to read and cannot access a copy:
journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...
#management #India #B-school #history
journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...
#management #India #B-school #history
Easier option was to ban firecrackers, or community firecrackers like the rest of the world, but the Sanatanis were offended that they weren't being allowed to celebrate Diwali; so we have gimmicks like this: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Except there are no rain clouds in Delhi winters.
Except there are no rain clouds in Delhi winters.
India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city
Bharatiya Janata party launches first test flight as brown haze blankets city after Diwali – but experts decry ‘gimmick’
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October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Easier option was to ban firecrackers, or community firecrackers like the rest of the world, but the Sanatanis were offended that they weren't being allowed to celebrate Diwali; so we have gimmicks like this: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Except there are no rain clouds in Delhi winters.
Except there are no rain clouds in Delhi winters.
Read some of the comments arguing it isn't antisemitism because unlike Aston Villa a particular religious/ethnic group isn't being singled out - except in that case too, football hooligans were singled out not a particular religious/ethnic group.
Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot.
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Police cancel Tel Aviv derby after fans riot at stadium
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October 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Read some of the comments arguing it isn't antisemitism because unlike Aston Villa a particular religious/ethnic group isn't being singled out - except in that case too, football hooligans were singled out not a particular religious/ethnic group.
This is why I am proud of my MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell.
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York MP calls on royal family to explain source of £12m Virginia Giuffre payment
Rachael Maskell says ‘a lot of clarity’ needed over how Prince Andrew funded settlement of sexual abuse case
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is why I am proud of my MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Elites who run the world.
They’re morons, they’re just dickheads who accidentally struck it rich by chance, not by merit, and this system does not give a fuck about the ability or morality of the idiots who relentlessly quest to amass as much money as possible
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Elites who run the world.
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The paintings of Gazan Ahmed Muhanna, seen today on their last day in Copenhagen. Expediency drove Ahmed to use flattened cardboard boxes from World Food Program aid packages. Necessity proved to be a brilliant mother of invention.
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The paintings of Gazan Ahmed Muhanna, seen today on their last day in Copenhagen. Expediency drove Ahmed to use flattened cardboard boxes from World Food Program aid packages. Necessity proved to be a brilliant mother of invention.
What happens when there is no internet and what it takes to put it back on.
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Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
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September 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What happens when there is no internet and what it takes to put it back on.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
I was never really a fan of T20 anyway (it isn't cricket at all), but more importantly this is why I don't like to follow cricket anymore.
Indian leader controversially refers to the politically-charged win as an extension of ‘Operation Sindoor’.
PM Modi invokes conflict with Pakistan after India’s Asia Cup cricket win
Indian leader controversially refers to the politically-charged win as an extension of ‘Operation Sindoor’.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I was never really a fan of T20 anyway (it isn't cricket at all), but more importantly this is why I don't like to follow cricket anymore.
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Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation.
As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.
As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
heated.world
September 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation.
As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.
As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.
What we knew all the flag waving all summer was going to lead to: nine year old girl shot at with an airgun in a racially aggravated assault.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Come on, Yvette, tells us how you love your flags and buntings and tea cozies.
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Come on, Yvette, tells us how you love your flags and buntings and tea cozies.
Girl, nine, shot with airgun in ‘racially aggravated assault’ in Bristol
Police seeking a white male suspect and treating incident as a hate crime after ‘traumatised’ victim hit three times
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
What we knew all the flag waving all summer was going to lead to: nine year old girl shot at with an airgun in a racially aggravated assault.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Come on, Yvette, tells us how you love your flags and buntings and tea cozies.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Come on, Yvette, tells us how you love your flags and buntings and tea cozies.
Yes, this.
Lamp-posts in York now have flags which the council has refused to take down. It is much less about patriotism but more about the far-right declaring war, and Labour are refusing to speak up and do something about it.
Lamp-posts in York now have flags which the council has refused to take down. It is much less about patriotism but more about the far-right declaring war, and Labour are refusing to speak up and do something about it.
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yes, this.
Lamp-posts in York now have flags which the council has refused to take down. It is much less about patriotism but more about the far-right declaring war, and Labour are refusing to speak up and do something about it.
Lamp-posts in York now have flags which the council has refused to take down. It is much less about patriotism but more about the far-right declaring war, and Labour are refusing to speak up and do something about it.
It isn't very hard, is it?
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It isn't very hard, is it?
Yes Yvette, what changed?
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Yes Yvette, what changed?
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“…there is no way to advance this project without violating international law.”
This is a quote from Josh Paul, the former-US State Department official who famously resigned from the Biden Administration in October 2023 over Biden's decision to continue supplying weapons to Israel.
August 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“…there is no way to advance this project without violating international law.”
The deepening inequality and the accumulation of wealth by a tiny percentage of the country's population comes together in this sharp song about the rich and the poor.
आर्टिकल 15 का यह गाना शोषितों की कहानी बयाँ करता हुआ | कहब त लग जाए धक् से
YouTube video by Voice85 India
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August 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The deepening inequality and the accumulation of wealth by a tiny percentage of the country's population comes together in this sharp song about the rich and the poor.
