Sumita Pahwa
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Sumita Pahwa
@sumitapahwa.bsky.social
Social scientist, religion and politics, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5829/politics-as-worship/
Yep.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's also deeply odd to care about what the kid of a politician, who basically trolls people on social media, thinks about politics. It's like the movie star kid obsession in Indian media.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I'll say it: the title does the article a disservice. The article is a very good explanation of the role of elite ed insttns in the US political imagination, how difficult it can be to get a point or experience across to a newspaper with a set narrative about this.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Well, I guess it's all relative, and people are responding to what they perceived or experienced as insecurity. I talk to a lot of my former students who are recent grads and am regularly stunned at how little the pay has gone up in the 25ish years since I graduated.
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
We have good local toy stores but not much else...sigh.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Not saying he has a point on solutions, just noting one major way things are palpably worse for the young, that I can see.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Same as a grad student in my 20s. Having said that, most ppl I knew (NGO and govt workers, grad students) could still afford rent in shared apartments. Now the rents have gone up and pay hasn't.
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
And it's not going to be gendered at all. Or be a problem for those wearing masks during Covid or other viral illness spikes.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
That didn't stop the multiple men who shared data and cited each other from doing just that, in the Watson story.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
oooooooh.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Feelin' groovy?
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM