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Cholera to Covid-19: Why Indians Have Selective Amnesia About the History of Pandemics
3 years, 9 months ago

Cholera to Covid-19: Why Indians Have Selective Amnesia About the History of Pandemics

News 18  

As COVID-19 upturned our world, it felt like it came out of nowhere. As Chinmay Tumbe’s brilliant new book, Age of Pandemics, shows, these cataclysmic events have been a significant part of India’s modern history. Part of the reason for this amnesia, Tumbe argues, is that the world hasn’t experienced a catastrophe of this scale since the influenza pandemic. Even …

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How the NRI voter could swing Indian politics
3 years, 11 months ago

How the NRI voter could swing Indian politics

Live Mint  

Nayanika Barat, 45, grew up in Kolkata and Jabalpur. As Chinmay Tumbe, an economics faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the author of India Moving: A History Of Migration, pointed out in Mint in 2019, the diaspora has acquired “newly minted political clout in an independent, aspirational India”, with politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to …

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First IIMA Faculty and Doctorate from US. But They Call Her 'Mistress': Kamla Chowdhry's Unconventional Life
4 years ago

First IIMA Faculty and Doctorate from US. But They Call Her 'Mistress': Kamla Chowdhry's Unconventional Life

News 18  

Textbooks are replete with contributions of men in science, politics, art and political movements, often rendering a masculine tone to the way we look at history. Such is the case of Dr Kamla Chowdhry, who was in fact among the first faculty members of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad when it was established in 1961. Today marks Dr Chowdhary’s 100th …

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Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world
4 years, 1 month ago

Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world

Firstpost  

In ‘The Age of Pandemics’, Tumbe specifically focuses on the period between 1817 to 1920, which witnessed nearly five percent of the mid-point global population —or 70 million people — being wiped out by pandemics. But for an epidemic to become a pandemic, both time and space are equally important, that is, the disease has to spread across a sufficiently …

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Migration to surge, we need smarter policies
5 years, 5 months ago

Migration to surge, we need smarter policies

Deccan Chronicle  

On World Population Day, the buzzwords are “population” and “demographic dividend”. The Economic Survey 2019 tells us that India is set to witness a sharp slowdown in population growth in the next two decades, and that although the country as a whole will enjoy the “demographic dividend”, some states will start transitioning to an ageing society by the 2030s. “In …

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