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Anshu Gupta telling the story of Goonj, the remarkable NGO he co-founded 26 years ago.

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Ramzan Mubarak.

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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All who care about #civil society and #democracy should read this please carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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#FreeAlaaNow

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'Asking which governments will step up is the wrong question. The UK aid cuts point to a more fundamental one: Can humanitarians change the system so that it’s not reliant on governments at all?https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2025/02/26/inklings-whats-humanitarian-gameplan

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“Donations won’t fill the gap” @vixvrana.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/02/25/f...

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#philanthropy

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Drat! The one thing at which we were #1 in the world.

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“I write my jokes in MS Word. I email the doc to my lawyer. He replies with an Excel sheet, he puts my jokes in different columns in different colours—yellow for medium-risk jokes, and red for high-risk...for medium-risk, they may abuse you but for high-risk, they may kill you.”

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Moment of zen.

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#mustread Maria Ressa has been at Ground Zero of the deployment of social media, artificial intelligence and their byproducts to distort journalism, politics and society. We must now deal with the consequences of having ignored her (and others) warnings all over the world.

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Quoting Harsh Mander: “The enfeebling of independent citizen voices within each of our countries is a collective project of the far right,” said the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. “It is a collective project stretching from Budapest to Washington, D.C., to New Delhi.”

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How a false DOGE claim ignited a political firestorm in India Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service said last week it had canceled a $21 million program for “voter turnout” in India. The Post found no evidence of such a program. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Philosophy, religion and politics summed up in 6 words.

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The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

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“I share this story to remind those in philanthropy that for people fighting for dignity and justice, this is a life’s work, which starts with trust.” - Martin Macwan, Dalit rights activist.

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Does democracy need philanthropy? Or vice versa?

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How India’s Muslims have been ghettoised, often with collusion from the state.

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A bookshelf in a bookstore that is dedicated to books about books, book lovers, libraries, librarians, and bookstores. #BookstoreLove

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“We will not mince words, scrub websites, or capitulate from ushering in a world that demands justice that is truly just.”

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Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

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The systematic muzzling of Kashmir’s journalists finally gets some judicial attention.

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Those who argue most fiercely for “merit” are most likely to reward loyalty over competence. #RandomObservation

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In this difficult time for CSOs & donors alike, community philanthropy cannot provide all the answers but it offers some important insights on why local funding is not just an option anymore – its an imperative globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/blog/local-f... #ShiftThePower #AnotherWayIsPossible

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Moment of zen.

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The growing array of legal and extra-legal weapons India’s government deploys against independent media. Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. #FoE

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Salman Rushdie on Elon Musk.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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What others have learned in similar contexts: 1. Appeasement doesn’t buy safety. It only emboldens authoritarians. 2. There are no safe spaces to which to retreat. The corner you paint yourself into just keeps getting smaller. Resist early. Resist fiercely. Build solidarity. #HoldTheLine

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Happy Hippo Day.

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Purple haze.

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Precapitulation doesn’t augur well for the nonprofit sector, however understandable it may be for individual organisations with vulnerabilities. Strong collective action would help.

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True, not just in Germany.

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Sounds chillingly familiar.

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Familiarize yourself with the concept of 'Social Murder'. We are going to become familiar with it, sadly.

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“The competition was on – to see who could channel their inner sadism best. There were no votes to be had in compassion. Affording people dignity. That was so last year. Now the fashion was to celebrate human misery. To turn deportation into a spectator sport.”

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RIP Tom Robbins, who did unspeakable things to the English language and kept this cowgirl from having the blues.

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Homi Bhabha, father of India's nuclear programme, walking in the woods at the Institute for Advanced Studion in Princeton, with 3 world renowned scientists, John Wheeler, who coined the word "Black Hole', Albert Einstein, and Hideki Yukava, theoretical physicist and first Japanese Nobel Laureate.

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A backstage portrait of Jamshed Bhabha, Chairman of NCPA and an ardent patron of the arts, along with Narayana Menon, art critic and erstwhile Executive Director of NCPA, and internationally acclaimed musicians Allah Rakha, Ravi Shankar and a young Zakir Hussain, during the early years of NCPA.

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Unprecedented attack on #civilsociety in the US, giving huge discretion to curtail the work of those CSOs which are key for democratic accountability and resisting further #democraticbacksliding. #Civicspace is closing fast. Will US civil society muster the strength to mobilize resistance?

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The #journalism India needs and deserves. Thank you @article-14.com.

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“In moving to federated social media sites people are re-imagining and rebuilding civil society online (whether or not they know it).”

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