Amol Agarwal, Economic Historian, writes on his blog Mostly Economics on Economists in India in changing times. https://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/economists-working-with-the-government-what-has-changed
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!!
I also blog and 'iphone photo shoot' my travels across the world. Do visit at
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Randy Pausch, ‘The Last Lecture’: The Parent Lottery
I read Randy Pausch’s ‘The Last Lecture’ on a flight. The lecture was on achieving your childhood dreams. He wrote ‘I was born with a winning ticket, a major reason I was able to live out my childhood dreams’. He beautifully describes how he won the ‘parent lottery’ as he got the best, most encouraging … Continue reading Randy Pausch, ‘The Last Lecture’: The Parent Lottery
Railways: In Cinema and Building Architecture
The History Literature Festival, 2024 was held in Pune, India during February 9-11. The format of this festival is to bring to the public books and discourses on the history of common everyday life. Among various themes discussed, such as the history of cinema and music, there was a fascinating session on the Railways in … Continue reading Railways: In Cinema and Building Architecture
Platform and Shared Economy -Podcast
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).
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?
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