#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.
A brilliant peice on the EWS judgement by lawyer Rajesh Chavda which weaves personal history and data to show utter deviousness of the SC judgement.
"Of the 256 judges appointed to the Court since its inception until November 2021, only five have been from the untouchable groups and one from tribal communities."
On Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's birthday remembering the first book I read on him -a book that completely transformed my understanding of the man and his ideas-.
The book stayed with me because it situated Azad's ideas about Islamic modernism, reform and Hindu-Muslim unity to the great mid -19thc intellectual effervescence in the Arab world centred in Cairo. Azad's ideas were embedded in the Egyptian 'nahda' or Enlightenment as much as in the local syncreticism of the Sufi silsilahs of India.
““With its majority verdict upholding the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution de livered on November 7, the Supreme Court has finally performed the antyeshti - or last rites - of reservation as an instrument for the redress of caste discrimination.”
“The real damage to the anti-caste-discrimination dimension has been done by the unanimous opinion that economic criteria alone may be used to determine eligibility for reservation.”
Satish Deshpande on the SC verdict on EWS reservation.
Now that a lot of people are in the Mastodon, they are getting to see “decentralization” in the original internet sense of the word…not the contorted crypto jargon.
The internet used to work this way until around 15 years ago. Everything from email, discussions, website content etc was decentralized and interoperable.
We can get back there. There is “a passage back to the place I was before.”
Spatial Delight – ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/
Two episodes available so far Introducing Spatial Delight and Full of Power
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