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Ashoka Social Ventures: startups in India. Former senior writer at in San Francisco.

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  1. Jan 9

    Worth reading

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  2. 2 May 2020

    Anyone researching this should really follow author

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  3. 2 May 2020

    Is Covid a ‘chimera’ created in a series of ‘passaging experiments’? No intermediary host has been found, and early positives didn’t arise in a wet market. An intricately hyperlinked medium piece, a one-stop place to learn the science of virus genetics:

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  4. 20 Apr 2020

    It should come as no surprise that the “small business” stimulus is a misnomer. The SBA has long been criticised for favouring large companies:

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  5. 24 Mar 2020

    Worth reading:

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  6. 11 Aug 2019

    This story from 2017 seems relevant to what happened in El Paso:

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  7. 27 Jul 2019

    SFUSD president Stevon Cook has two typos in the first two paragraphs of his official bio: I would really love to see a smart magazine piece about what the state of SFUSD says about priorities in SF, where middle class families with kids barely exist.

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  8. 26 Jul 2019

    This reflects 2 trends: 1) The replacement of liberalism by a "progressive" culture that disdains anything that makes its adherents feel uncomfortable 2) Families of means fleeing SF public schools due to chronic neglect and underfunding

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  9. 6 Mar 2019

    The University of Oxford is partnering with ! The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies will advise us on program design and send a senior lecturer to our campus in Kerala this summer to serve as a teacher in residence. We're really excited about working with them!

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  10. 21 Feb 2019

    Reporter of has written a nice story about what inspired Purvi and me to start . Check it out!

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    9 Feb 2019

    Listen to our co-founder Purvi Patel talk about Camp Cardamom right now on AM 1310 in the San Francisco Bay Area, or live on Facebook here:

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    7 Feb 2019

    Camp Cardamom is an immersion program for young people and families located in the mountains of Kerala. We offer an amazing range of arts, cultural, and outdoor adventure activities based around our 100-acre organic farm and Ayurvedic lodge. Apply now for summer 2019.

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  13. 9 Dec 2018

    Happy 6th birthday to Kiran! – at KoCo

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  14. 6 Dec 2018

    This past weekend we did a video and photo shoot for , our new summer camp for kids in Kerala. Worried that our Kathakali dancer would capsize, I jumped in to steady him. Afterwards I was ready for a cup or three of warm chai.

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  15. 29 Nov 2018

    I hear that lobbyists these days are really predators. (via )

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  16. 30 Jul 2018

    Here's an irony: Indian bank has begun using Ripple to settle international transactions but has frozen my bank account with no warning because I used it for bitcoin trading 3 months ago. The big guys get to benefit from blockchain, but the little guys, not so much.

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  17. 29 Jul 2018

    This is one reason why we moved to India, where it's normal for kids to run around the neighborhood without parents hovering over them. Which is to say, to be kids.

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  18. 29 Jun 2018

    NYT story today aptly points out why local journalists face bigger security threats than national ones. I'm reminded of the case of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland:

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  19. 27 Jun 2018

    Decided to end my long hiatus from Twitter to take note of this. An amazing moment.

    To get the crowd to quiet down at the @Ocasio2018 victory party, the speaker is yelling mic check -- crowd yelling back mic check. For you kids, this is from Occupy. Occupy is coming to Congress.
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  20. 15 Dec 2017

    Dogs and a robot vs homeless people: so very San Francisco.

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