how you pronounce crore is a class signifier

Painful to be a student at Ashoka U. A hundred emails everyday from clubs - societies- events that I don’t care - which has ridiculous baity subject lines-that I have to delete to avoid the dystopian reality of 1000 unread emails!

If by Dehat we mean rural in a location-sense, a group of people who live in villages then obviously I am not anti-Dehat nor are the @JungIndien @sirfaditya folks I am sure. @svembu has shown wonderfully, for example, you can run the world’s biggest companies, in large parts at least, from villages. Rurban becomes a continuum - a game of infra and sustainable living. I am anti-Dehat, though, in the Ambedkarite sense. The idea that there could be a community veto of who you love, where you study, what your occupation is and so on. That mindset could be in cities too. Little girls being covered head to toe is unfortunately a not uncommon sight in Indian cities. I don’t think there is any need to clarify this, just like post-religious or anti-socialism need not be or modernity itself. But nonetheless it is useful. The point is not to sneer at hillybillies, the way the newly converted Romans sneered at “pagans” - very much a play on the rural polytheists being apparently boorish simpletons. For me Dehat simply means the Khap and its related apparatus. It is a reminder that our civilisation failed to have our own state in large parts for centuries and hence defensively reflexively went into this shell. Being anti-Dehat is breaking that shell, unapologetically.

found a neuron in qwen3.5-4b that makes it talk like her

The best lesson I learned from Uchicago Econ during my undergrad was: “Find an interesting and important question first, then find methods to study it.” Not the other way around.

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l'amore ai tempi della resistenza (serbia)

the art of letting go but secretly hoping it finds its way back to you

A friend of mine initially rejected the man she’s now married to because she didn’t feel attracted to him. A few weeks later she saw him leading a rock climbing trip, suddenly found him incredibly hot, and now they’re married with a baby. Much to think about

Umar Khalid’s thesis is added as a book at IISER, Pune. This is a central government institution for science research.

India’s best chemistry textbooks are written for JEE aspirants, not for its universities. 🧵 - JEE has one syllabus for the whole country and an exam that rote learning cannot crack. - Undergraduate chemistry has neither, and nobody is incentivised to make its books better.

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What’s the worst thing your ex has done to you?