compelling fact: 85% of surnames do not convey caste signals in urban-educated settings (e.g., elite colleges typically located in urban centers) due to migration and geographical variation in naming conventions (Mamidi, 2011; Jodhka, 2015; Wiltshire, 2020).

"Trump's nominee for US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that India's middle class is bigger than the entire population of America." ... Context = India's 90th percentile of income ~ $15k. www.indiatoday.in/business/sto...

some context about the recent events in Nepal ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

🧵 One of the most remarkable stories of change in India has been the successful effort to bring most children into schools. #Enrolment #Education #HigherEducation #India #DataForIndia

Gandhi And His Critics - By Gaurav in India — 07 Mar 2014 Gandhi And His Critics Gandhi could never come to terms with the fact that he took leave from his dying father to have sex with his wife; his father died while he copulated. This episode produced a lifelong obsession with overco… Read more →

Even 'India is the enemy' (page 68 ...?) was only 61% in 2009 ... gallup.com.pk/wp/wp-conten...

TIL "Roughly three-in-four Pakistanis (74%) consider the U.S. an enemy, up from 69% last year and 64% three years ago." From 2012. www.pewresearch.org/global/2012/...

"[accidents] are the leading cause of mortality among men aged 15-29, responsible for more than one-quarter of the deaths every year in this age group." www.dataforindia.com/road-acciden...

There was conventional wisdom a decade ago that China can't do software. Today, Tencent is ~700B, Alibaba about half that. India's largest software company is TCS, with a net worth of ~ 125B

There was conventional wisdom a decade ago that China can't do software. Today, Tencent is ~700B, Alibaba about half that. India's largest software company is TCS, with a net worth of ~ 125B

Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi - By Gaurav in Gender — 19 Nov 2017 Missing Women on the Streets of Delhi Photo by Ibrahim Rifath / Unsplash In 1990, Amartya Sen estimated that more than 100 million women were missing in South and West Asia and China. His NYRB article shed light… Read more →

Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa - By Gaurav in Interviews — 13 Jun 2007 Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of Cracking India and The Crow Eaters . She currently lives in Houston, Texas. What does your name Bapsi mean? Who gave you the name? My grandmother doted on the British.… Read more →

🧵 Manufacturing is a key driver of India’s economy, contributing 15% of the gross value added while providing 10% of jobs nationwide. #Factories #Jobs #Manufacturing #Economy #India #DataForIndia

NEW - The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - cup.org/472gDEr - @simonchauchard.bsky.social & @sumitra.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Interpretation. NDA tended to win larger seats and by bigger margins (which should raise its winner‑surplus waste). Yet NDA still shows lower total wasted votes and a lower wasted share than INDIA. The dominant driver is loss‑side waste: INDIA accumulated many more votes in seats it did not win ...

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🧵 Access to mobile phones and the internet in India has expanded rapidly over the last decade. However, there is a gap in the technical skills needed to use these technologies effectively to communicate, learn and work. #ICT #Technology #DigitalIndia #India #DataForIndia

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would nominate Sergio Gor, one of his closest aides, to be the next U.S. ambassador to India, where he will oversee frosty relations that have worsened with the planned doubling of U.S. tariffs on India next week. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

My coauthored CSIS report with Tina Dolbaia on Russia-India relations has now been released. www.csis.org/analysis/gun...

Internal migration of agricultural workers in India leads to a downsizing of farms near cities and an expansion in remote areas, prompting a spatial reorganisation of agriculture. Read today's article to learn more:

Nair opened the first Leela hotel at the age of 71: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._K...

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc... pair w/ www.newsonair.gov.in/ashwini-vais...

"In particular, none of the sampled female [village] presidents (sarpanch) and only 28 percent (3 percent) of the sampled male presidents have a multiterm experience as member (president) of the GP." cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/c...

New dataset alert 🚨 Using LGD codes assigned by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in India, I link villages across India with SHRUG (@devdatalab) identifiers to their corresponding Gram Panchayats, allowing for GP level analysis of census and other village-level data. (1/4)

most indian parliamentary elections are blowouts with fairly large margins (nothing compared to the US house elex. ballotpedia.org/Election_res... but still average of 14%, close to senate)

the logic of wasted votes ...

These are from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Gr... if you were to sort the results by ward by margin, you will see that the bottom 20 (max. margin) are all AIMM! but also votes/seat is lowest for AIMM

kartik is wrong about average margin of victory. most are blowouts docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Given the dogs ruling, a good time to re-up www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...

Over half of all women aged 15-49 in India were anaemic as of 2021, according to the National Family Health Survey’s (NFHS) 5th round. #Women #Children #Anaemia #Health #India #DataForIndia

apparently women raise more issues than men in gram sabhas from chattopadhyay/duflo: economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Here’s to India, and its ambition to bring kidney exchange up to national scale. #india #econsky #kidneys #transplants #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/visu...

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... A terrific report by Mangal!

Pair w/ a somewhat diff. take: www.gojiberries.io/burning-168-...

"In poorer states, additionally, a quarter of mothers still have five or more children, ..." www.dataforindia.com/email/220ad8...

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... A terrific report by Mangal!