Nilanjana Roy 🦊Beautiful story about how Ken Liu, translating The Three-Body Problem, restored Cixin Liu's original beginning:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html
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He/his. I ask questions about things about which I know little. Or a little. I read the books I buy.
Dexter Filkins in fine form: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india
The part that gets me the most: Ashis Nandy's assessment of Narendra Modi:
Vinay AravindGreat piece by Alok Prasanna Kumar on the Ayodhya judgment and the dichotomy between the principles it touts at length in an extended preamble, and the actual logic that informed the judgment (which is more candidly set out in the 'dissent') - https://www.firstpost.com/india/ayodhya-judgment-sc-using-faith-and-religion-to-settle-ramjanmabhoomi-title-claim-is-disingenuous-and-insincere-7633081.html
KavitaKrishnan 😼Shun the hagiography, here's a balanced assessment that doesn't whitewash bias & authoritarian tendencies displayed by ex CEC #TNSeshan, while also giving credit where credit is due - @jaffrelotc in the book edited by @DrSYQuraishi https://scroll.in/article/911757/how-former-chief-election-commissioner-tn-seshan-tamed-the-criminalisation-of-indian-politics
Kiran Jonnalagadda#introduction #india I'm a computer programmer, community organiser and digital rights activist based in Bangalore, India.
Growing up as a lonely, bullied kid in the 90s, I found solace in books, computers, and later, the online world. In my quest to find belonging, never quite fulfilled, I've been involved with various communities over the years. A biography in toots:
stux⚡️I like to clarify why we don’t have a verification system like the #birdsite with the blue thingy next to your name.
On the #fediverse or at least #Mastodon we all are equal. No person is ‘higher in ranks’ or better than everyone else, our point is exactly the opposite. We want equality right?
We have plenty of methods to prove who you are on other platforms, we don’t need a badge for that 😉 Ofcourse you can use it however you like but this would be the reason, I’ll hope you’ll understand
Audrey TruschkeAlright folks, let’s try again with some specificity — Float me your questions about Mughal history and let’s see what we can do...
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@nandu ohai 🦀