To understand runaway tuition at IIMs, we must focus on how the avarice of post-industrial neoliberalism combined with pre-industrial Brahmanism.

As with everything else, caste is at the front and center of the 2007-2023 story in this thread.

https://twitter.com/maheshperi/status/1629043945845018626

2007 was when IIMs implemented OBC reservations (amidst significant pushback from a faculty body that was almost entirely "upper" caste). As public institutions were thrown open to Bahujan students, the entrenched elites pulled the carpet under their feet.

With due respect to the protagonist, a first-rate scholar, and not to diminish his experiences as a young graduate student, this thread is really about how and why mainstream development economics is a colonial project.

https://twitter.com/cblatts/status/1592511038695821312

Can you even imagine my Indian students being able to do this in Madurai, let alone North America? What would have been the experience of a Black Canadian American student? These are questions that development economics must ask but does not.

This year, #WorldWaterDay turns the spotlight on making the “invisible” groundwater “visible.” Here is a thread on a new genealogy of the most famous tool to make water visible --- “virtual water.” The virtual water construct has its origins in India and not the Middle East. Virtual water entered the contemporary water discourse when the late Professor Tony Allan (inspired by the work of the Israeli economist Gideon Fishelson) formulated the “embedded water” construct to explain water conflicts (or lack thereof) in the Middle East.

Today is the ninety-fifth anniversary of the historic Mahad Satyagraha. A thread.

#MahadSatyagrahaAnniversary

Chavdar Tank, Mahad Exclusionary control over public goods (especially water sources) has historically been a central strategy in maintaining the boundary between “touchables” and “untouchables.” 2/n