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Swati Narayan
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Academic, Activist and Author of UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours http://t.ly/Qmnnz
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A friend just tipped me off about Fund a Kitchen in Gaza, a free tool that helps you locate and donate to community kitchens currently serving some of Gaza's most vulnerable!

#Palestine #Gaza

www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/
Fund a Kitchen in Gaza - Humanti Project
Free tool to locate food kitchens across Gaza that are providing and distributing urgently needed meals to hundreds of thousands of people.
www.humantiproject.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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They're not going to stop unless we make them.
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here is the latest political map. See which state governments give eggs 👇 🤔

#AndaDo
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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India's “egg map”: Eggs in midday meals are still a no-no across India’s entire “north-west” region, even in states where most people eat non-veg. Undernourished children pay the price.
[Credit: Swati Narayan]
January 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today the #Maharashtra state government withdrew funding for eggs in school midday meals when 78% of Maharashtrian adults eat eggs

Why are governments playing with children's food?

Check your state 👇
January 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
At a time of intense disinformation on #Bangladesh - here is my piece in the Bangladeshi paper Daily Star News largely drawn from #UNEQUAL

'Dreaming About Ladyland'

P.S. Please see AltNews for their excellent debunking of fake news on Bangladesh altnews.in

www.thedailystar.net/opinion/focu...
Dreaming about Ladyland
More than a century ago, revered Bengali writer Begum Rokeya in her short story Sultana’s Dream had visualized futuristic inventions like solar cookers, atmospheric water generators and flying air-car...
www.thedailystar.net
December 4, 2024 at 4:15 AM
See who I bumped into in #Bhopal - the amazingly kind and courageous @nehadixit123 who held the audience spellbound

Now cannot stop reading the beautifully woven

The Many Lives of Syeda X ✨
December 1, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Today is one year since #UNEQUAL was published by @WestlandBooks ❤️✨

Beyond grateful that it has been reprinted so many times. Best of all - so many friends and readers have read it cover-to-cover and still send me messages 😍🙏

www.amazon.in/Unequal-Indi...
Amazon.in
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November 27, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated.

Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: Death toll far higher than previously reported - study
More than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, researchers say.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
"So, so you think you can tell..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdN...
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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November 19, 2024 at 2:37 PM