#India: #Samsung Electronics suspends three #union activists. Employees respond with #SitIn.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/samsung-suspends-three-workers-affiliated-to-trade-union/articleshow/117956759.cms

IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti’s remarks on the medicinal benefits of cow urine have generated controversy. At an event celebrating Tamil festival Maatu Pongal, Kamakoti claimed cow urine had anti-bacterial properties and could treat ailments. His comments drew criticism from groups like Dravidar Kazhagam, who argued there is no scientific evidence supporting such claims and criticized his lack of scientific temper.
#IIT #Madras #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iit-madras-chief-hails-gaumutra-for-med-value-draws-flak/articleshow/117379643.cms

The environment matters for economic growth. Rainfall shocks & water scarcity reduced investment & limited economic growth in early 20thC Asia. Nath, Cheng & Ratnoo in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Rev argue that irrigation helped, but uneven public water management worsened regional inequalities. OA
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12285
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Asia #water #Punjab #Madras #Tawian

#Birth #Patterns in the Aftermath of the 1918 #Influenza #Pandemic in #India: The Case of #Madras City https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39053937/?utm_source=Feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1fgJURi2yzLesFml6et0Bb6krzs_FrNIYgPYVFN50JPwVNFg9s&fc=None&ff=20240727023430&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414

We found a contemporaneous #spike in excess #deaths and #infant deaths and a 40-week lag between the spike in deaths and a subsequent deficit in births.

Environment matters! Rainfall shocks & water scarcity hampered growth in early 20thC Punjab, Madras & Taiwan. In a new Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev article, Nath, Cheng & Ratnoo argue that irrigation helped, but uneven public water management worsened regional inequalities.
OA
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12285

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Asia #water #Punjab #Madras #Tawian

#India launches nation's first 3D-printed rocket engine…
https://www.space.com/india-agnikul-3d-printed-rocket-engine
"It signals the ability to rapidly assemble rockets that is unparalleled," Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy of Agnikul Cosmos, who is also a professor of aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in #Madras, said in a statement.

Always have fond memories of the #yelaisaapadu

Lunch on the leaf
#Chennai #Madras #Madros #Madrosy #doesa #saambhrr
#SriramV @MadrasMobile
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/lunch-on-the-leaf-the-many-flavours-and-tastes-that-madras-offers/article67204743.ece

Twitter destroying its brand by renaming itself reminds me of large Indian cities renaming themselves and destroying the goodwill associated with their historic names. #chennai for #madras. #mumbai for #bombay. #kolkata for #Calcutta. #bengaluru for #bangalore.
Instead of solving real problems, politicians take these stupid steps.

Juniper hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus). Per one source, this species' odd choice of a conifer as a host might be because its ancestral species ate mistletoes, a dicot parasite that is often found attacking junipers. Then over evolutionary time a mutant popped up that could eat the conifer host, too, followed by further specialization and eventual speciation. Interesting theory, which I've probably butchered. #lycaenidae #butterfly #lepidoptera #insect #entomology #nature #madras #oregon #speciation

Good morning, my favourite city! #Chennai #Madras

Florence Nightingale in Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts:

.> The more one hears about this famine, the more one feels that such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before.

.> — Florence Nightingale (1877)

.> The newly constructed railroads, lauded as institutional safeguards against famine, were instead used by merchants to ship grain inventories from outlying drought-stricken districts to central depots for hoarding (as well as protection from rioters). Likewise the telegraph ensured that price hikes were coordinated in a thousand towns at once, regardless of local supply trends.

.> Dissident journalists like William Digby in Madras... and the Bombay Statesman’s representative in the Deccan stirred troubling memories of the Irish famine as well as the #SepoyMutiny. In England, moreover, a group of old Indian hands and Radical reformers, including William Wedderburn, Sir Arthur Cotton, John Bright, Henry Hyndman and Florence Nightingale, kept The Times’s letters column full of complaints about #Calcutta’s callous policies.

.> Obdurate Bombay officials meanwhile continued to outrage Indians and incite charges of a cover-up in the press by refusing to publish any estimate of rural mortality. (Even Florence Nightingale was snubbed when she requested figures in early 1878.)

.> The bubonic plague came to Bombay in summer 1896 probably as a stowaway on a ship from Hong Kong. At the time, some scientists theorized that drought, as previously in southern China, was a critical factor in driving plague-carrying rats into more intimate commensality with human victims.36 Bombay, in any event, offered an ideal ecology for a pandemic: fetid, overcrowded slums (perhaps the densest in Asia) infested with a huge population of black rats. For years health officers had warned #British administrators that their refusal to expend anything on slum sanitation was preparing the way for an “epidemic apocalypse.” Florence Nightingale, in addition, had repeatedly crusaded against the city’s “phantasmagoria” of disease conditions, but the “European townspeople were united in blocking increased taxation to pay for new water and drainage schemes.”

.> The railroad system, meanwhile, consumed (to 1880) thirteen times as much investment as all hydraulic works. As the pro-irrigation lobby led by Sir Arthur Cotton and Florence Nightingale protested during the 1876–77 famine: “Now we have before our eyes the sad and humiliating scene of magnificent Works... that have cost poor India 160 millions, which are so utterly worthless in the respect of the first want of India, that millions are dying by the side of them.” ( #Gandhi, echoing this critique, would later denounce the railroads that “depleted the countryside of its [food] stocks and killed the handicrafts” as an underlying cause of #famine.)

மக்கள் தொகையில் மூன்றாவது பெரிய நகரம் சென்னை
https://patrikai.com/madras-third-largest-populated-city-in-1871-census/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#சென்னை383 -வது பிறந்தநாள்: நிறைய சம்பவங்களை செய்யப் போறோம் என முதலமைச்சர் ஸ்டாலின் டிவிட்…
https://patrikai.com/chennais-383rd-birthday-we-are-going-to-do-a-lot-of-events-says-chief-minister-stalin/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#ChennaiDay #Chennai383 #Madras #MadrasDay #madras383 #சென்னை @CMOTamilnadu@twitter.com @mkstalin@twitter.com @chennaicorp@twitter.com @chennai_day@twitter.com

“தற்காலிக ஆசிரியரை நியமிக்க என்ன அவசரம்?” இடைக்கால தடையை நீக்கக்கோரிய வழக்கில் அரசுக்கு நீதிபதி கேள்வி
https://patrikai.com/why-rush-to-appoint-a-temporary-teacher-judges-question-to-the-tn-govt/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com