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A THREAD on Saint #AmartyaSen.
A comprehensive story of how the Nobel Laureate in economics (a committed communist klutz to be precise) thoroughly botched up the revival of the Nalanda University using a mix of nepotism, incompetency, and ad hoc functioning.

Please read & share:


First, the appointment of #AmartyaSen, who throughout his career has heaped scorn on everything that is rooted in the Indian tradition, was outrageous for Nalanda University, that had once symbolized Indian culture and the world’s best traditions of excellence in learning.

Indeed, it is open knowledge that the sole qualification of #AmartyaSen to head the Nalanda University was his proximity with Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi.


In 2007, UPA govt constituted a Committee, which was supposed to file a feasibility report in 9 months. But #AmartyaSen didn't submit any report in 3 yrs, could not even prepare a financial estimate or bring any funds from abroad. Yet he was made Chairman of the Board.

Instead, #AmartyaSen continued to use his position to decide on the University’s syllabus and other programs and controversially ignoring the rules.
Why? What was his agenda?
It has to be understood in the perspective of the ‘politics of obligation’ that Dr. Sen practices.
TIPS IN SEARCHING FOR A SUPERVISOR

I had provided a step by step guide in writing a supervisor. If you missed it, look it up here👇

https://t.co/ZrAe27bILv.

Today, I offer you a few workable tips to assist you in the search for supervisors.


1. Go to the staff page within the department or school website and look up lecturers whose research interests align with yours.

2. Another trick is to use the search bar on the website and type in the key terms of your research or interest. E,g Professor in public health/accounting/English etc. You can then instinctively navigate the page through the results.

3. Sometimes it is difficult to find a supervisor due to the number of academics in a school or department. Another trick to use when faced with this challenge is to locate a Postgraduate Coordinator within the department...

and share your proposal and CV with them to assist you to circulate among academics. This is a quick way to get a supervisor. Please note that different schools refer to such persons differently, Postgraduate Coordinator has just been used as a reference.
Okay, let’s get this show on the road. I will begin by sharing research related to the 1971-1972 effusive eruption which is similar to what is happening now. I will be sharing old photos and crediting sources so not to confuse everybody that it’s not related to today’s activity.


To begin: the type of volcanologist I am is a “historical and social” volcanologist, which means I research how past and present activity impact the people who live with volcanoes. A lot of my data are old written records, interviews, photographs, newspapers etc.

This is important to note and acknowledge there are multiple ways to research volcanoes. I therefore know less about the geology BUT knowledgeable in volcanic hazards and how people live with these hazards.

Photos taken by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Vincentian geologist Lance Peters, all taken sometime before the 1971 activity. Important context for 1971-1972 in relation to today’s activity: there was a crater lake. A lot of water was present...


...Water is a key ingredient in making volcanic eruptions explosive BUT sometimes it isn’t. 1971-1972 had no explosions and little to no seismic activity associated. Photos in the 1970s by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Lance Peters.
LIVE NOW

On the need for urgent decisions & a comprehensive set of measures *today*

"Delayed and tentative decision making will result in the deaths of tens of thousands more people"

Getting worse: several more thousand people in hospital than at April peak: no's still rising


Cases in *all* regions are going up, reflected in hospital admissions.

Every region except NE and NW have more people in hospital than during the first wave.

We don’t yet know if tier 4 is enough to slow or contain covid.

The impact of Xmas mixing is still to come.

Schools will contribute to increasing transmission rate - @IndependentSage chair notes their nuanced position on schools + happy to take questions.

Indy SAGE calling for lockdown AND clear plan for exit from such a lockdown. Calling for proper support for testing + isolation

Vaccination rollout programmes vital - including international support

The impact of long covid also identified alongside horrific scale of death is part of the catastrophe we need to prevent unfolding further

.@IndependentSage highlighting the unbelievable pressure on NHS staff across the UK.

Given the scenes at hospitals around the UK, we cannot afford to underestimate the seriousness of this for everyone
Here are 20 of my best threads from 2020 covering personal finance, entrepreneurship, economics & finance, investment banking ++ useful resources.

Massively grateful to everyone who took time out to read, comment & share these across the year. I really appreciate you.

[Thread]

1. Breaking-in – study notes, free textbooks & past


2. Breaking-in – the job connector


3. Breaking-in – book smart vs. street


4. Personal Finance – MEGA Property
Yesterday I spent time (&far too many tweets) trying to defend @Keir_Starmer 's position in a Guardian article which angered & disappointed many who, like me, are passionate pro-Europeans. I will try to explain why (thread)


Starmer is like me a lawyer, not a trade specialist but he obviously took advice. He is also a committed pro-European. As a lawyer when looking at the TCA, I saw all the predicted negatives but also enormous potential for a pro-EU government which results from the

institutional structure of the deal. The TCA sets up 19 specialised committees (including on Customs Cooperation, SPS, Technical Barriers to Trade) dominated by an all powerful 50/50 Partnership Council (PC) which takes binding decisions with immediate direct effect by agreement.

These decisions do not have to be published or not in full. This is undemocratic but typical of FTAs and efficient. In my view there is huge potential to take big decisions, far from the emotional tone of the Brexit drama, decisions which will be crouched in technocratic language

"Removing the red tape" " Customs Simplifications Procedure" (a lesser form of CU), "mobility", "improving access for services (a lesser form of FoM): little by little, step by step, the most negative effects of the TCA will be undone out of the glare of the tabloid press until
The big story in Parliament today really isn't which of three bad options the Opposition parties will choose. It is the absolute travesty of parliamentary democracy that is about to play out: a microcosm of the shattering effect Brexit has had on our constitution. [THREAD]

MPs are being asked to shovel through, in a single day, a bill that was published yesterday, implementing a treaty agreed six days ago, which comes into force tomorrow night. The European Communities Act 1972 was debated in Parliament for 300 hours. Today's bill will get about 5.

MPs will have at most four minutes to speak on a trade agreement covering more than 1,200 pages. Few will have had time to read it anyway, and their votes will mostly be cast by the Whips. The entire charade will be over shortly after lunch.

Today's legislation doesn't just transform our trade relations. As @jeff_a_king points out, it gives ministers the power to rewrite vast swathes of domestic law without further scrutiny. It is a massive transfer of power from Parliament to the Executive.


Parliament has to do this with the legislative equivalent of a gun to its head. The UK's current terms of trade with the EU cease to exist in 48 hrs. MPs cannot inflict a crash-out on their constituents, so all that's left for the Opposition parties to argue about is positioning.