PODCAST: Platforms and Shared Economy: Precarity of Work or Building Agency? by Jeemol Unni, Full article available at Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Volume 66, Issue No. 2, Pages 355–370 (2023).
Platform and Shared Economy -Podcast
Author: Jeemol
Training as an Economist has stifled my writing, Hoping that blogging will release my creative writing spirits!! This blog is dedicated to the loving memory of my father C.I.Unni, who would have loved these random outpourings! Credit for the title of the blog goes to my daughter!!
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A Thousand Full Moons: My Mother at 84
When I said I would be in Kochi for my mother’s 84th birthday a friend of mine said ‘it is a very important birthday to celebrate. At 84 a person has witnessed a thousand full moons’. Wow, what a wonderful concept and sure enough the day before we saw the thousandth moon. To be healthy, … Continue reading A Thousand Full Moons: My Mother at 84
Sabar Tribals and Tishu (Tusu) Festival, Purulia, West Bengal
We visited the Sabar tribals in Purulia district, West Bengal. The visit was colourful as the entire region was celebrating the Tishu Festival, the last day of the Makar Sankranti harvest festival in the month of Paush.
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: Hats off to Shrayana Bhattacharya for writing this extremely engaging and provocative account of ‘India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence’. Seeking independence among young women in India and their silent, sometimes not so silent, protest is vividly depicted.
Death, Death Doula and Death Cafe
Whoever talks about death? It is definitely not something I dwell on, life is worrying enough! Whoever heard of a death doula? Never heard of a birth doula either. Whoever heard about death cafes? Apparently a lot of people as I understood from Mikky Brammer’s new book, The Collected Regrets of Clover!
Maharajas of Colonial India and the Opium Trail: Manu Pillai and Amitav Ghosh
Manu Pillai's 'False Allies' and Amitav Ghosh's 'Smoke and Ashes' note a positive role of the Indian Princely states in the colonial era. In regions where the Princely states were progressive and able to maintain their independence from colonial rule, trade, commercial networks and entrepreneurship flourished. Read here a brief account of these exciting treatises.
The Maharaja Plays Delinquent Again
Is it possible to fly directly from Ahmedabad to London on Air India and Etihad? Read about our adventurous flight to London, direct but hopping airlines!
Jawan: Solutions for the common man
A short review of the blockbuster Hindi movie ‘Jawan’ with the evergreen heart throb Shah Rukh Khan. Review is short as that is as much as I can say about this film! Is there a method in the madness?
Gender and breaking the glass ceiling
The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese’s novel is about a family in Kerala living among the backwaters and canals, but for whom water is an anathema, vehemently disliked! With my Malayalee background I was amazed at the idea that persons in Kerala were afraid of the water? Abraham Verghese’s novel is about a family in Kerala living among the rivers, backwaters and canals, but for whom water is an anathema, vehemently disliked! With my Malayalee background I was amazed at the idea that persons in Kerala were afraid of the water? Read ‘The Covenant of Water’ to understand this ‘condition’.
Munshi Premchand’s तेंतर
Munshi Premchand's ' तेंतर'. How Premchand debunks superstitions in this short story about the girl child.
Unni-Verse 