Aradhya
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Aradhya
@econ-aradhya.bsky.social
Development guy. Keynes Appreciator. Russell Westbrook's #2 fan

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Nah I can’t really remember anything density. But the closest we get is stories about moving to the big city and your life improving. I actually read a lot of these for school (Maos last dancer, Brooklyn, books about migrants etc)
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I mean the US has much worse public transport than Canada and Australia, and their distance and density problems are worse.
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What about the stories about moving to big city and leaving the old life, like Brooklyn?
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think it’s the primaries that are squeezing out the third parties. America notably does not have regional parties, a feature in most FPTP democracies.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Two round systems with proportional voting 🤮
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Nitish is lowkey one of the worlds most talented politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It could have made so many different decisions. It has Kerala level social outcomes and started market reforms in early 70s. But the Tamil conflict totally derailed the whole thing and its never got back on track.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Sri Lanka was the great lost opportunity in South Asia. Literally threw away a possible economic miracle to maximise racism.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ooft the worst of the lot
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Convergent evolution!
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I think the best argument for Indian democracy is seeing how badly Bangladesh/Pakistan/Nepal did under dictatorships.

India didn’t develop cause it lacks a Pervez Musharaf is a take lol.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
IMO I don’t think it really applies. Nepal had the democracy movement in 1990 (which had more protestor deaths), civil war etc. What was shocking was the speed and geographical spread
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Afghans already do this. The problem with Afghanistan is that they are poorer than Nepalis, so they cant migrate in as large numbers. Education is also an issue relative to other poorer countries.
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kindergarten is just one year in NSW, before you start Year 1. I didn’t realise it was different in other states
July 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The way it’s used in this context, nation means ethnic group.
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I originally got on twitter to learn about developing country urbanism. This is total dead space for that type of content.
July 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
They probably make up the bulk of rail trips in developing world
July 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Not an exact one but Joh Bjelke-Peterson inherited a rural gerrymander from the Labor Party in QLD. Because poorer people were concentrated in rural electorates and then shifted.
July 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s just bizarre that Nick Adam’s was my deputy mayor during my childhood. He wasn’t even the weirdest person on council. There was a lady who wanted to monitor the toilets in local parks for gay sex.
July 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
America would be a net beneficiary if the oil price went up.
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
America has loads of domestic oil. This would cause problems primarily for China and Europe
June 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Sort of interesting that Indian logic flips this. You have the traditional ‘village republic’ setup that Gandhi admires and Ambedkar hates. So anarchism is more trad in the Indian context.
June 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I think the worry for Nepal is that it ends up in place with low labour demand and low labour supply. The net outcome may just be very little economic activity, which is very worrying.
June 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM