Tag Archives: caste
Super-spreading, mobility and crowding
I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to “super-spreaders” vis-à-vis the novel coronavirus – implying that some individuals might be to blame for ‘seeding’ lots of new infections in the community – instead of accommodating the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged basic amenities, caste, class, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Dharavi, herd immunity, housing poverty, inequality, Mumbai, novel coronavirus, public distribution system, public toilets, seroprevalence survey, super-spreader, T Jacob John
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The climate change of bad news
This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. As one friend put it, “It starts somewhere and then goes in a different direction.” This year hasn’t been beset by the same old steady drizzle of bad news … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Op-eds
Tagged bad news, Ben Smith, caste, cognitive dissonance, fact-checking, Jacob Silverman, Jonah Lehrer, journalism, Miami Herald, parachute journalism, privileges, Rafia Zakaria, Rukmini Callimachi, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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Caste, and science’s notability threshold
A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the ‘scientific genius’ just concluded, with Gita Chadha and Shalini Mahadev, a PhD scholar at HCU, as panellists. It was an hour long and I learnt a lot in … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged Brahmins, caste, casteism, constructs, experimental physics, Gita Chadha, Indian journalism, mainstream media, Nobel Prizes, science communication, Shalini Mahadev, sociology of science, upper caste, Western modernity
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Bollywood, Kollywood, etc.
Tamil cinema has been able to touch upon societal ills more often and better than Bollywood has been able. Continue reading
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Tagged Bahubali, Bollywood, BR Ambedkar, caste, Dalits, Kabali, Kollywood, Rajinikanth, Tamil cinema, The Economist, Tollywood, Vaasanthi
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