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In August, 2011, I returned to Thiruvananthapuram after 7 years in Texas when I made no India visits. These are notes I kept from the day I landed. Originally shared with a group of friends on Facebook, it is sort of a public diary. Daily doses of the realization that everything and nothing has changed!

20200918

PUP Day 56

Participatory socialism continues with discussions of social lottery for seats in higher education to ensure generous mix. And greater fund...

20200917

PUP Day 55

Piketty discusses the need for transparency of wealth so that progressive taxation can be effective. Carbon taxing and co-management of com...

20200916

PUP Day 54

Skipped yesterday. Started the last chapter on Participatory Socialism which is essentially Piketty's suggested way forward for societi...

20200914

PUP Day 53

Finished the chapter with the discussion on Brazil and the uselessness of the catch-all term Populism. Illustrative how classist and nativi...

20200913

PUP Day 52

Moved on from Europe and Piketty's suggestions for European Parliamentary Union as a sub unit to start with, to the wonderful case stud...

20200912

PUP Day 51

Long elaborate discussion on democratising European Union. Not of much interest.

20200909

PUP Day 50

The long chapter on Social Nativism starts with a recap. The disadvantaged classes feeling abandoned by the social democratic parties get e...

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