Tejas Harad @h_tejas@mastodon.social
Copy editor at Economic and Political Weekly. Journalist fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
Joined Nov 2019
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#caste101 If non-Indians want to understand India's caste system, this essay is a good entry point #india https://aeon.co/essays/how-india-deludes-itself-that-caste-discrimination-is-dead
VCK holds protests demanding OBC reservation in medical admission – The Satyashodhak
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Ambedkar’s diagrammatic representation of the structure of Hindu society @h_tejas
#TIL there is something called as 'nothingburger'
You can't expect me to work during a cyclone surely? #NisargaCyclone #wfh
If OBCs have 5000–6000 castes, not even 500 among them would be peasant castes. So refrain from making generalizations about OBCs based on a few populous castes. And even among peasant castes, most are marginal farmers with less than 2 acre of land which they till on their own.
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RT @JharkhandJanad1
Mahasabha is organising a discussion with workers on their lockdown experience, post-lockdown world and demands from the state. All friends are invited to join the discussion. 8 June, 11 am - 2pm. @meenakandasamy @HansrajMeena @StrandedWorkers @Jayati1609 @SreenivasanJain
'निसर्ग' असं पांचट नाव कोणी दिलं या वादळाला?
Cyclone Nisarga: India evacuates 100,000 as Mumbai awaits historic storm.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/cyclone-nisarga-india-evacuates-100000-as-mumbai-braces-for-historic-storm
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asking for help to get away from an abusive living situation, boosts needed
does anyone nearby (i'm in riverside county, in southern california) have a place i could stay in the near future? like, a couch i could sleep on? not yet, but it looks like things are gonna go to shit pretty soon no matter what i do, so it'd be nice to have an escape plan ready. my parents have been incredibly abusive since i moved back in with them, especially since they found out i was trans. today they went into my backpack and took all my hormones, and that's only the tip of the iceberg of the bullshit they've put me through. at the end of next month they wanna take me to mexico and i wanna be gone before then. please help.
Narendra Modi might be only the head of state in the world who hasn't addressed the press in this pandemic.
On #LabourDay, my salutations to the pioneer of workers' movement in India, satyashodhak Narayan Meghaji Lokhande (1848-1897).
I miss Oxford. :(
I miss Oxford.
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मुम्बई के एक अस्पताल में 40 नर्सों को हुआ कोरोना संक्रमण!
दुखद और चिंतनीय...दान ही मांगते रहेंगे, दिये, थाली ही बजवाते रहेंगे, स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों के सुरक्षा उपकरणों का इंतजाम कब करेंगे ?
“The trading scene is lifeless. Small-time shopkeepers have taken the biggest hit." https://indianexpress.com/article/coronavirus/from-across-india-how-coronavirus-has-hit-small-business-owners-traders-6320558/
"As the number of coronavirus cases in South Asia ramps up ... experts fear unsanitary testing and quarantine centres could present a problem in the densely populated region." https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-southasia-quarantine/flooded-toilets-dirty-sheets-south-asia-quarantine-centres-worry-experts-idINKBN2152CN
I use Oxfam India–Newslaundry survey for quantitative analysis and my own survey for qualitative analysis on the lack of lower caste journalists in newsrooms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZAy8wBwnM&t=6s
OMG childhood song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkv-1Wu0kt0
Copy editor at Economic and Political Weekly. Journalist fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
Joined Nov 2019
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