Netflix’s analytics for last week are out, including Pakistan. Dhurandhar: The Revenge is at the top of the Pakistan charts. The OG Dhurandhar is at 7th, completing 16 weeks in the top 10.
Even the main Netflix handle (not Netflix India, but the one based in the US) has been openly promoting the release.
Continue reading Dhurandhar, Netflix and the India-Pakistan Asymmetry
1) Rashid kidwai writing in ndtv.com, says that the CJP “movement ” might boomerang on opposition and not necessarily on BJP.
2) OTHERS have started seeing a new AAP.
3)The point to be considered is that, there is a generation that is rootless and is not connecting to the main stream parties. Will this turn into votes is still a question mark.
4) while the revolts in Sri Lanka and elsewhere (colour revolution ) succeeded ,it failed in Iran and Bangladesh to change the system.
5) It looks increasingly possible to do a TVK type upheaval with media’s help.
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We pulled the consultant roster of a leading Indian hospital, well-known, charitable, multiple metros, decades old, and ran the surnames against caste. The institution does not publish anything beyond name, sub-specialty and city. We have anonymised the hospital because the point is structural, not gossip. The pattern here is the pattern at twenty others. What we found will not surprise anyone who has sat in an Indian waiting room, but the numbers are worth tabulating.
The Methodology
This is not a census. It is surname sociology. Indian surnames are imperfect caste signals, especially in Tamil Nadu where initials often suppress jati markers altogether, and elsewhere where regional surnames detach from their origin communities through migration and intermarriage. We are not building a genealogical claim about any individual on the list. We are reading the aggregate. Elite institutional patterns in India are often visible precisely through these imperfect signals: when the noise floor is what it is, a strong signal still tells you something. The exercise is probabilistic, not deterministic, and we have tried to keep the language commensurate with that.
The Numbers
Continue reading Who Sees? A Caste Audit of an Anonymous Elite Indian Hospital
