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> The mission of Equator is to hold up a mirror to a global audience of readers and writers who don’t yet recognise themselves as belonging together.

Hell yeah. Paulo Freire would be proud.
equatormag.bsky.social Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · Oct 9
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Defector's Tom Ley thinks more people should experience worker-owned journalism.! 🦋
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Tom Ley Thinks More People Should Experience Worker-Owned Journalism
As Defector turns five, the founding editor reflects on what he’s learned.
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September 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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We’ve been successful in eight federal courts, six districts, and two federal appellate circuits — and we’re doing the same in other cases across the country.
How The Intercept Fought to Reveal Key Evidence in Student Deportation Cases
In critical cases involving pro-Palestine speech, The Intercept convinced courts to make the full dockets public.
interc.pt
July 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
There are momentous changes taking place in US society and the economy and we’d be foolish not to recognise thier significance and act appropriately.
My piece in @scroll.in today #Trump #Tariffs

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As the global trade system crumbles, what should India do?
New Delhi must rethink its economic strategies to adapt to a world where traditional free trade assumptions no longer apply.
scroll.in
April 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"Trump’s scattershot, shifting, chaotic policies have, wittingly or unwittingly, a thematic coherence and political message." Understanding Trump's economics which are rooted in his politics:
#Trump #USEconomy #Inequality
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King Ludd in the 21st Century
Trump seeks to disrupt the old order with policies that he promises will reverse the fall in labour's share of the American pie. But these inchoate actions also threaten the size of the pie. The march...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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“I now wear a different uniform”

Sanju Mandavi, who joined the Maoists in Chhattisgarh at the age of 10, tells Raksha Kumar he surrendered to the police after 11 years of battle. A few months later, he began fighting his former comrades

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Accused Of Extrajudicial Killings By Families of Victims, Former Maoists-Turned-Police Troopers Say They Yearn For Peace
In 2024, 287 Maoists were killed in Chhattisgarh, 812 arrested and 723 surrendered, making it the most successful year for the security forces, in a war of attrition spread over half a century. Senior...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"India's early environmentalists offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming ecological collapse" Ashish Kothari reviews Ramachandra Guha's book.
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Speaking for Nature’s Spokespersons
The early environmentalists featured in ‘Speaking with Nature’ offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming ecological...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There can be a two-way street between India and Germany writes Harsh Mander.
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India and Germany: A Two-Way Learning Street
There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India has been...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The March issue of @theindiaforum.bsky.social has just been published. Read the aritcles on India as a 'rising power', on state insurance schemes, reviews of books by Sunil Amrith, Janaki Bhakle, Bela Bhatia and much more...https://www.theindiaforum.in/issues/march-7-2025
March 7, 2025
The India Forum is India’s digital destination for the best long-form comment on contemporary issues presented in a reader-friendly magazine-like style.
www.theindiaforum.in
March 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
What explains the popularity of #Psychology as a subject for university students today? Rachana Johri unpacks the many currents in the discipline.
#Universities #Students #Colleges
www.theindiaforum.in/education/ps...
Psychology in India: A Critical Perspective on its Growing Popularity in Universities
The search for oneself in these neoliberal times, a job market for psychologists, and the emergence of an “Indian psychology” explain the current popularity of this academic discipline in India. What ...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
With MK Stalin highlighting the issue of #Delimitation again and the possible negative impacts on some states, Sunil Kumar argues that we should be looking elsewhere to improve representation and administration.
www.theindiaforum.in/politics/emp...
Empowering Local Governments in India’s Federal Structure
Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by strengthenin...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The US has gone bonkers.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 26
Woke up to see Donald Trump sharing a video on Truth Social about turning Gaza into a holiday resort with a giant gold statue of Trump, ending with a final shot of Trump and Netanyahu enjoying the beach together. Absolutely unhinged.
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A survey of the state of state health insurance programmes at the States which have exploded in the past 10-15 years.
#India #Health #Insurance
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How Healthy is Health Insurance?
State-sponsored health insurance schemes are growing by leaps and bounds in India. Ensuring that they serve the public interest rather than private profit is a major challenge. Insurance apart, what I...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
A review of the writings of an indomitable fighter for India's marginalised:
"This is more than just a compelling read—it is an invitation. For young people from privileged backgrounds, it offers a window into an India they might otherwise never encounter."
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
A Call to Understand, Feel, and Act
Bela Bhatia fervently urges privileged groups to recognise and respond to the struggles of the marginalised. She acknowledges caste’s influence, but does not fully confront its pervasive role, instead...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"In Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company said it consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, or about 10 days’ worth of water for the entire city of London." From @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
#AI #Google

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Counting the Environmental Costs of AI
Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
www.theindiaforum.in
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
When too detailed a set of instructions to enumerators can led to quirky results. Example of #PLFS and measurment of women's economic status in India. By PC Mohanan and Aloke Khar
www.theindiaforum.in/forum/rise-f...
Is the Rise in Female Work Participation due to an Odd Set of Instructions to Enumerators?
Given the high degree of informality in the Indian economy, national employment surveys have drawn up complex instructions to capture all those who work. This however also comes with the risk that mis...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A federal institution facilitating political-level cooperation is crucial to respond to the demands of a modern economy
By Yamini Aiyar of Brown University
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NITI Aayog has Failed. India Needs a New Institutional Compact
Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution fac...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries
A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...
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February 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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RIP fierce one
February 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"...life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 yrs during the first 12 months of the war, about half the prewar level..."

Guillot, M, M Draidi, V Cetorelli, José HCM Da Silva, & I Lubbad. 2025. Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip during the Period Oct, 2023, to Sep, 2024. The Lancet.
Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024
Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...
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February 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Sitharaman: "*This* category of taxpayers is the one which is helping run the country..."

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February 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
'Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests. This is not without reputational risks for India.'
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When Big Business Influences the State and Foreign Policy in India
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using t...
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February 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Masculine apology - getting your VP to say sorry for you. "Calling it an “inadvertent error”, Meta India has apologised for ...Zuckerberg’s statement that the incumbent government in India lost elections in 2024 due to its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic." www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Bend the knee to Trump, now Modi
Who is next?
Neytanyahu, Xi, Piton, Oban, Erdogan
#Facebook #meta #zuckerberg
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Meta India apologises for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remark on 2024 elections, terms it “inadvertent error”
Meta India VP apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg's incorrect remarks on India's 2024 elections, debunked by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
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January 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Threats To Beat & Boycott, Inciting Violence Against Muslims: BJP’s Nitesh Rane, With 20 FIRs, Is Now A Maharashtra Minister
He calls Muslims Pakistani pimps, green pigs and green snakes; threatens to strip, beat them and urges Hindus to boycott them and demolish mosques. The police have filed—on court directions—20 first i...
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January 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM