Ryan Thomas
ryanosour.bsky.social
Ryan Thomas
@ryanosour.bsky.social
Journalist | Social Media Editor at The Caravan
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Archives | The GDP-obsessed analysis emphasises quantity over quality—to use a medical analogy, it focusses on treating an illness by exponentially increasing the dosage of a particular drug, when another medicine might improve a patient’s health.
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Archives | Imagine someone pouring a bag of rice on the floor and asking you to pick up every grain. Then imagine if, every time you spoke up about the injustice, another bag of rice was poured out and you were asked pick each grain up, again.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The Archaeological Survey of India has asked the archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna to resubmit his Keezhadi excavation report.
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Archives | The RSS and BJP’s ideology of gau raksha, and the entirety of sanyasi economics, can only be defeated through the philosophy of the country’s productive workers—not through standing by Brahminism like Tharoor does, feeling proud that he was born a Hindu from the feet of the Brahmin god.
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was recently arrested over his social media posts related to ‘Operation Sindoor’.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
HAHAHAHA "surrender modi" best thing i saw today
in case you're wondering how things are going with the India-Pakistan negotiation they are currently calling narender modi "surrender modi" in India
May 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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in case you're wondering how things are going with the India-Pakistan negotiation they are currently calling narender modi "surrender modi" in India
May 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
instagram peaked in 2016, now it's on -234726937636 health
May 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt
May 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Archives | Palestine: In Glory and Pain

A diary of destruction from the river to the sea

Maen Hammad's photo essay: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/gaz...
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
ahh to scream into the void again ❤️
May 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
social media sux. but thankfully this platform is not yet popular in india.

therefore i can shit post with ease-and without feeling too conscious.
May 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🚨The Caravan Baatcheet is back with its signature incisive discussions, now with a fresh look! Watch the full episode: youtu.be/uRguBXp6X64

This week, host Vishnu Sharma speaks with Sunil Kashyap to decode the 2025 Delhi Elections and their implications for Indian politics.
Delhi Elections 2025 | किसकी होगी दिल्ली? | AAP या BJP | The Caravan Baatcheet Ep 32
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January 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The Hindu Hoax: How upper castes invented a Hindu majority

Read the full report by Divya Dwivedi, Shaj Mohan and J Reghu: caravanmagazine.in/religion/how...

(From The Caravan's January 2021 issue)
How upper castes invented a Hindu majority
Promotion of the Hindu identity in the early twentieth century helped upper castes take control of a democracy despite being a minority.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The 2025 Delhi assembly election explained, by Ajachi Chakrabarti: caravanmagazine.in/politics/202...

Delhi will elect its eighth Vidhan Sabha on 5 February, in what appears to be the sternest test yet for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party.
January 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Hate by Proxy: How shadow accounts on Meta spread BJP propaganda in Jharkhand

@ryanosour.bsky.social reports:
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How shadow accounts on Meta spread BJP propaganda in Jharkhand
Often masquerading as news platforms, these accounts spend large amounts of money to boost their reach, saturating social-media feeds with divisive, hate-filled content.
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January 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#JobAlert | The Caravan is hiring!

We're looking for a Product Manager.

To apply and for more details about the role, click here:
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January 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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#Archives| While the processes by which the land was acquired to construct the Ram temple will be forgotten in the pageantry surrounding its inauguration, they serve as an instructive episode on what progress looks like in Modi’s New India.

Read Sagar's report:
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January 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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From Gyanvapi to Sinauli and Vadnagar, the ASI’s misuse of archaeology only serves the RSS’s ideological takeover of history.

Read the cover story from our January 2025 issue by Eram Agha, on how the Archaeological Survey of India fortifies Hindutva History:
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How the Archaeological Survey of India fortifies Hindutva History
From Gyanvapi to Sinauli and Vadnagar, the ASI’s misuse of archaeology only serves the RSS’s ideological takeover of history.
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January 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The Ram temple at Ayodhya is a vehicle to promote Brahminical supremacy

Read Sagar's notes from January 2024:
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Ram temple at Ayodhya a vehicle to promote Brahminical supremacy
As the Ram mandir inauguration drew near, mainstream media and BJP promoted Brahmin supremacy, and the Brahminical version of Ram.
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January 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Take back your attention.
January 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute
‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute
Some say it was an unambiguous Nazi salute but others are unsure and say focus should be on Musk’s stated support for far-right * Did Elon Musk give a Nazi or Roman salute, and what’s the difference? There were angry reactions across Europe to Elon…
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January 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’m blue skying now I guess.
January 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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“Don’t Look Up” is a documentary.
January 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM