Midweek Readings
Rajeev Srinivasan and Abhishek Puri recently wrote a piece for Open on “The New Knowledge War on why Indic scholars and AI experts (and enthusiasts) need to be alert to the risks posed by unrepresentative...
Author: B Shantanu
What I read (& found interesting) last week…
This week I am going to be lazy and so you will just have to do with a collections of interesting articles/tweets from the last two weeks. Noah Smith has a blog series running...
Global Carbon Emissions
Global Carbon Emissions… Of the major emitters shown in Figure 7, only India is set to have national per capita consumption emissions within the 1.5?C-compatible per capita level in 2030… Source: https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621305/bn-carbon-inequality-2030-051121-en.pdf
Back to work…
…and feeling good about it ! I started my journey to understand Bharat with a newsletter in 2003-2004. Some of you may remember that my earliest attempt at reaching to a wider community was...
Ancient Indian Wisdom
1 How many of you remember your parents or grandparents telling you that walking barefoot on earth is beneficial for you? Here are two surprising papers on this (one from 2011 and the other...
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