PhD in Public Policy researching urban change and social stratification
Mumbai, India
Joined July 2010
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Eloquent writer and novelist Saikat Majumdar has insightfully reviewed “Will AI Murder Us All?” in @scroll_in :
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Monday Oct 26, 2026 4 PM, @IiserMohali I am giving a lecture on (my new work in progress )
Phule or Ambedkar: Nothingness to Self Or Self in Nothingness to claiming Social Self
Those in Chandigarh Tricity, interested in #Phule #Ambedkar Nothingness and Self, please join
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Friends in Chennai... Pls do come, pls spread the word.
Saturday, Oct 24 | 7 PM; High tea at 6:30 PM.
Venue *The Lab @ Shanta,* Shanta Ayurveda Hospital, T. Nagar, Chennai 600017
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Entry Free. Registration via WhatsApp to 9940620268
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Reviewed Muzaffar Ali’s "India, Habermas and the Normative Structure of Public Sphere" for @epw_in . An original and ambitious attempt to theorise an Indian public sphere.
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#ExpressInvestigation | Defence PSU gives tender for anti-tank missile part to ex-chief’s family firm
Investigation by: @PratyushDeep1
Read: indianexpress.com/article/ex…
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Delighted to have this "ExPosition" (25000 word) paper out with @ScotGeogJournal, thinking about conferences as spaces of ideas and interactions that shape disciplines and academic lives... 50 free downlaods available at tandfonline.com/eprint/ABQ8D…
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I think of email as an advanced form of physical mail, but my students think of it as an archaic form of texting. This difference causes a lot of miscommunication.
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Look at this brazenness. No registration plate, police light bar, tinted glass. And he is the son of Pinki, a goon from Ghaziabad!
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To term Navi Pillay an ‘indentured servant’ is historically false and profoundly demeaning. Her forebears endured indenture. Their suffering is neither an insult nor a hereditary status to pin on a descendant.
You may disagree with her judgments if you wish, but do engage with them. Reducing a distinguished jurist to the colonial subjugation suffered by her ancestors betrays contempt for the dignity of labour and for a painful chapter of our own history. A seasoned Indian journalist should know better.
An indentured servant just won the Nobel Peace Prize. ndtv.com/world-news/nobel-pe…
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Strikes and protests are supposed to cause some inconvenience to draw public attention to the issue. Now you don't even need to actually strike/protest. Call for one, and the government will do the rest for you.
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Finally, UNBLOCKED on Instagram. 😊
Thanks everyone for supporting me & standing with me. Really means a lot. 🙏
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Let the esteemed guest learn the repercussions of his acts through CONSTITUTIONAL route.
#Update Shyam Kacholia from Jaipur, who allegedly made casteist remarks openly at the IIT Bombay guest house and insulted Babasaheb Ambedkar, has been arrested. 🔥
A case has been registered against him under the SC/ST Act and other serious sections.
He is also reportedly a BJP leader and a former IAS officer. Just think about the level of hatred these people harbor toward an entire community.
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Before shutting Mumbai’s T1 and shifting a huge number of passengers to Navi Mumbai, shouldn’t the basic public transport infrastructure have been ready?
While there are buses, there is still no direct metro connecting Mumbai to NMIA. A cab home can cost ₹2,000–₹3,000 or more.
Metro Line 8, the crucial Mumbai–Navi Mumbai airport link, is still only in the planning stage, with 2029 being the projected opening.
Why are we shutting down a busy & crucial airport terminal before putting the mass-transit alternative in place? Mumbai is one of the world’s great cities. This level of infrastructure planning simply isn’t good enough.
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Upcoming book talk in Mumbai:
“Artificial Ethics for Artificial Intelligence”: Human morality in non-human minds.
AI alignment tends to assume that morality can be carried from one kind of intelligence to another.
But human ethics grew out of the lives that we actually live: finite, vulnerable, embodied lives that we live alongside other people.
Even a 10-year prison sentence takes its meaning from those facts. It matters that a human life is limited, and that we cannot pause it or begin it again.
So what would a proportionate punishment mean for an AI that could be paused, copied, sped up or restored?
The question goes beyond punishment. Ideas such as responsibility, fairness and care change meaning when the beings involved have different capacities and constraints.
That does not mean that we should give up trying to make AI safe.
It means that we have to ask what our naturally-grounded concepts mean for artificial intelligences, rather than assuming that they will apply unchanged.
That is the question that we explore in Artificial Ethics.
