With @darrickhamilton.bsky.social at @nber.org conference on race and stratification

Some photos from a recent visit to #princeton Centre for Global India. It was really nice of Avinash Dixit to come to campus just to meet me 😊 Thanks to Tanushree Goyal for all the warm hospitality 🥰

On Monday at Princeton. Trying to unpack the puzzle of India's low female labour force participation (the recent rise notwithstanding). (What's demand got to do with it? 🤔) @seema.bsky.social

My take in the IndianExpress today on the Larsen and Toubro 90-hour work week controversy. Instead of glorifying burnout, we need to focus on more sustainable work schedules, fair compensation and genuine equity.

Farm to table: freshly harvested kumquats converted to delish marmalade. Joys of #gardening & fresh #produce

When the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to DSE for Kaushik Basu’s 65th birthday conference in 2017. An erudite, gentle, courteous presence, he interacted with all of us with utmost ease. Deepest condolences to my Ashoka Univ colleague Upinder Singh & rest of the family.

🥇of my 2024 reads. Happen to be written by women but that's not the (only) reason I found these excellent. The writing is empathetic, nuanced, lucid, moving & the analysis is sharp with new insights. Reveals a face of India that urban, upper middle class, Eng-speaking Indians are mostly oblivious to

Me to AI: Show me a photo of a doctor and nurse at work. First photo: ChatGPT. Second photo: MetaAI. Docs always male; nurses female. Meta has non-White images, ChatGPT predominantly white. AI inherits & reflects our stereotypes & labour market imbalances

These were some of Meta’s photos when I asked for a picture of a “professional at work”

Algorithmic bias? I asked ChatGPT “Show me a picture of a professional at work”. It was always a white male. With Meta, first it showed several white women, then a black man (photos in the next post 👇🏽)

Best day at work! Getting to meet the G.O.A.T maestro A.R.Rahman 😍🤩🥰

So excited about this! “The Many Lives of Syeda X” by Neha Dixit is one of the best books I’ve read recently, absolutely fabulous, and Namita Bhandare is an old favourite. Moderated by our fantastic Ceda director, Akshi Chawla, this should be fun conversation. #Datascape 2024 @IHCDelhi

📣Three of the four panels at Datascape by CEDA.

Datascape: We, at CEDA, Ashoka University, are planning a whole day of discussion around #data in #India. Here’s the first of the four panels. Register for the event here: bit.ly/datascape2024

Indian fragrant kaffir lime variety: gondhoraj lebu: flower and fruit; freshly harvested red radish; baby tomatoes #gardening #homegardens

Excited to be at #IEAWC2023 to talk about our new initiative @iea_we 🤩 @drodrik.bsky.social

Excellent book by Sudeshna Guha

Short, informative, lucid, jargon-free essays. Easy to read, 1 essay at a time. Today’s read: the dancing girl, who apparently could equally have been a warrior 🤷🏽‍♀️

#books #authors #history #india