May 2024
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Brown Pundits Podcast 100: The origin of Indo-Europeans and Indians
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Crafty Designs
Starting from the Eameses’ 1958 India Report, which led to the National Institute of Design, the author profiles designer Poonam Bir Kasturi and Industree, and her later critique that Indian…
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Rajaji: Our forgotten hero
Reposting a 2018 piece, the author argues that C. Rajagopalachari, Rajaji, is perhaps the most forgotten of India’s founding leaders, and that his free-market ideas and Swatantra Party remain relevant…
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From Udaipur to Okinawa riding on orange peel
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on Narayan Lal Gurjar, a young Rajasthan innovator whose Okinawa-based startup makes superabsorbent polymers from orange and banana peel to help farmers in arid…
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The Caped Crusader
The author recounts how a teenager in India tried to rescue a stranger from a 2008 suicide livestream when no one else acted, uses it to discuss the bystander effect,…
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The young entrepreneur from Jharkhand who wants to simplify spiky jackfruit for India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in profile of Aman Chhabra, a Jharkhand entrepreneur whose startup Kathalfy sells ready-to-eat vegan jackfruit products, with a link to the full story.
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A Kerala entrepreneur’s jackfruit startup that’s fighting India’s diabetes ‘pandemic’
A Kerala start-up making flour from green jackfruit, and the case for jackfruit as a food against India’s diabetes epidemic.
