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use sql instead of reaching for pandas..

RT @karatalaamalaka: Great talk by @hamsanandi ! (couldn't attend live)

This talk should be on the Indian history curriculum of schools!

@vjgtweets board game? (This one is designed/developed by a high school buddy of mine.)

@dysinger This appears to be made just for you!

In 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarth dedicated his award to Iqbal Masih.

A short documentary on Iqbal Masih

"Genghis Khan, in fact, may have been not just the greatest warrior but the greatest eco-warrior of all time...the 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance, wiping out entire civilisations, may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere"

India has decided to simplify the process for re-issue of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards. Details here:

@btbytes @ShrikaanthK @talekaayi @avtansa yeah it was... very similar to frooti.

Colts safety Julian Blackmon wows with lullaby to newborn daughter

"My students says their parents are their best and surest allies." Really fascinated by this rupture in the developmental structure of American youth.

Sputnik V deliveries to India to begin in April: Indian envoy Venkatesh

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Incredible. Brian Armstrong’s HackerNews post looking for a cofounder for Coinbase.

“Because Bitcoin worked out so well. Have fun with that, dude.”

“I don’t think you’ve properly thought this through.”

“I’m gonna call it right now: bad idea.”

You'll love this if you're an Oliver Sacks fan.
Do watch it if its available in your region.

Here is an article I wrote on why Gandhian thought will remain essential for Indian (and even global) politics.

I voted for Ambedkar, by the way. Without a strong pragmatic leader, we will be eaten for breakfast.

Please resign. Abject incompetence.

More important than tactically quoting him is to understand the Ambedkarite project. One source of inspiration was his guru at Columbia, the American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. Here is a fine essay by @scottrstroud on this theme.
#AmbedkarJayanti

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died

I randomly found YouTube videos by a Kannada teacher discussing Karnataka state syllabus 10th std Kannada. What a great resource for students, most of whom are taught by worse teachers!

Technology is lovely!

Good interview with @bibekdebroy on the Mahabharata @DrRajBalkaran

excellent personal website!

Our Hindu identity is an umbrella celebrating pluralism and diversity. 2021 will see the Solar and Lunar calendars align to have almost all Hindu communities celebrating their New Year on the same day!

We wish all our students a Happy Hindu New Year 🥳

Sandeep, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?

Yea, definitely…of course (I had been answering this question affirmatively since I was a 1st grader, without ever telling my parents).

From @sandeep_k_sood's compelling essay.

RT @RiskIQ: We're excited to announce the launch of the RiskIQ Illuminate® Internet Intelligence Platform, the only #SecurityIntelligence solution offering a tailored view of the global internet attack surface based on your organization's unique digital relationships:

NY is shutting down a perfectly good nuclear plant

Critical as I am, I generally give Tesla credit for their powertrains and Superchargers... but this 739-page thread about loss of range and/or charging speed and/or increased "vampire drain" makes me wonder. Some (understandably) angry owners.

😳... ok, ok, he was a disruptor. sometimes overlap btwn madness & disruptiveness is fuzzy.

Shorn of the cloak of its colonial tuxedo, this is the Lutyens Idea of India: whether one eats with one’s hand or uses a spoon and a fork.

Commentary on the recent interview between Karan Thapar and Sanjaya Baru.

Just came out with a new video on the languages of the Indian subcontinent. It's a bit more detailed than my other videos on linguistics, so I thought I should share it and maybe get some opinions from academics.

Retroflexes: The linguistics of South Asia

That NCAA Tournament fall didn't kill referee Bert Smith. It saved his life:

"Dr. Kariko was convinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own medicines, including vaccines. But her career at UPenn was fragile & she migrated from lab to lab & never made more than $60,000/year."

[give her a Nobel Prize and more...]

the 2007 film mongol: the rise of genghis khan is underrated

pamela sargent's Ruler of the Sky: A Novel of Genghis Khan is excellent. khasr actually comes off as the most sympathetic and underrated character imo

"In America men often work long hours even when they are already well-off...they dislike leisure even for their sons...The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake"

@SuspiciousPleb @karatalaamalaka

This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have colour. 😮

Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses.

Sixth continuous night of violence. But of course this has nothing to do with oppression.

#oldpost from one year ago.

Personally in this one year, I have learnt many things about #Panini's grammar that I did not know about. I don't know if I have to make some amends to my article, based on these learnings, but that can wait. :-)

I’m saving all of my bushcraft pennies for this premium knife. #want

"By erasing Quechua knowledge and claiming its “discovery”, the story of modern European pharmacology often became one of narrative parasitism...."

If you have had malaria, you'll have heard of 'quinine'. Fascinating histories of a wondrous tree bark.

Nemam Ghafouri, Doctor Who Aided Yazidis in Iraq, Dies at 52