Jophin Mathai (jofmat.bsky.social) @jofmat
education, careers, philanthropy, social change | here mainly for the reading recos | @uoessps alum joph.in India Joined July 2010-
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Not a great time for anyone who actually understands what is happening.
Indians are the only people in the world who quietly pay for every government failure out of their own pocket. Dirty water? Buy an RO. No electricity? Buy an inverter. Polluted air? Buy an air purifier. No gas supply? Buy an induction. Bad schools? Pay for private tuition. We don’t protest. We purchase. And then the government calls it “growing consumer economy.”
This is what the African nations especially have been pointing out. Others have been able to come and showcase their culture and fans, but this country’s racism is so blatant that it’s prohibited a wider cultural exchange. It’s so against what the World Cup is as a social event.
@mcmansionhell 💯 I’ve been journaling about 800 words consistently each day for the past 7 years (apart from other rare, public writing), and maybe some day, some ideas may seed a book. But that’s not the point. I read and write to feel rebelliously alive and joyful in this macabre time.
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We need to make this shit so completely socially unacceptable that no one would DARE wear those glasses in public anymore than they’d walk around with no clothes on or waving swastikas or whatever. Bars should kick anyone covertly filming people TF out & ban them.
We need to make this shit so completely socially unacceptable that no one would DARE wear those glasses in public anymore than they’d walk around with no clothes on or waving swastikas or whatever. Bars should kick anyone covertly filming people TF out & ban them.
A guy and his friends came up to us at a bar asking to play Jenga. My friends agreed, but while playing something seemed off with the way they were talking and making conversation. Then I looked closer and realized he'd been recording us the entire conversation. When I called it
Does anyone know about SIR forms in Delhi NCR? What the hell is happening?
Essentially, there is nothing that can prove you are a citizen. It has to be decided on a case by case basis, for a limited period at a time, by the 'proper authorities' using their intuition and gut-feeling. Since no one can at any point of time be sure if they are a citizen or not, they need to, at all times, be propitiating the 'authorities concerned', so that whenever required, they may be granted a few drops of citizenship. Radical reinvention of the Constitution that we can all applaud. The next step towards progress could be to determine four hereditary hierarchies of citizenship.
Passport is a travel document, not document of citizenship, say MEA officials
AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems – as a matter of transparency No more hidden costs. No more shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it. It is time to come clean.
The whole education system is being destroyed systematically. Please tell me how this is not worse than anything Zia did to Pakistan's education system. Colonial rulers would be proud of what the BJP is doing to finish India's worth as a knowledge centre.
Mumbai is undergoing a transformation which will have far-reaching consequences for its future. Localities like Bandra having fallen prey to rampant redevelopment are already feeling the heat. Do read these articles to better understand the issue and the solutions for it.
Junk the extra FSI rule and needless construction/infra projects. The city's carrying capacity is stretched to its absolute limits. Its waste management system is in deep disrepair as are its ecological ecosytems!
In this piece for @DeccanHerald's Gender page, I write about the Indian trans community's creative use of parody, building on shared cultural knowledge, to deliver a strong critique of a law that robs them of their rights. deccanherald.com/features/gende…
Book Alert📢 The open access version of my new book Wages for Housework: India’s Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women published by @OUPAcademic is now available to download at lnkd.in/edADJtQC. @LawsOfSocialRep @KCL_Law #cashtransfers
We should all *buy copies* And download the kindle version only as back up. Only. This work, despite the bombardment of state driven and sangh driven abuse happened because of the Grit and Commitment and Yes, Genius of a Survivor. Hats of to @UmarKhalidJNU @banojyotsna his wonderful birth family and friend family, law/legal family too.
Fractured Communities: Adivasi Histories and the Politics of Power Umar Khalid's PhD is being published as a book by @juggernautbooks You can get a free kindle version till 27th and after that it will be officially launched and available at bookstores
“…morabeza is more than a quaint island lifestyle, devoid of problems…It is a sense of hospitality and obligation forged across centuries of enslavement followed by the famines of the early 1900s caused by the Portuguese abandonment of the islands once slavery was abolished.”
Cabo Verde’s national team is at the World Cup for the first time in their history. To understand why they might surprise everyone, you need to understand morabeza. africasacountry.com/2026/06/no-str…
We are commissioning one long-form book review (4000-5000 words) for the first issue of the @newdelhireview, to be released in July. Looking forward to connecting with PhD scholars working broadly in economics, public policy, and development studies. There is an honorarium.
I interviewed @vandanawriter about her excellent book OTT Please! Online Buyers, Sellers & Gig Workers in South Asia for @htTweets. She talks about her research questions, labour laws, barriers to unionizing & collective bargaining. (Edits: @utterflea) hindustantimes.com/books/vandana-…
Timeless advice from Kafka,1912
🚨For over a year, I've worked with a small team of researchers to clinically document evidence of the role Big Tech platforms play in encouraging Hindutva Pop music. We found a total of *523 SONGS*, encouraging violence against Muslims, stoking hate. YouTube, Meta, Apple and Spotify, were all found complicit in not just amplifying but even *funding* these songs. #HPop For @csohate @raqib_naik
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