ADAM TOOZE

000s of brick kilns along Ganga provide work & building material for urbanization but cause huge environmntal damagenhttps://t.co/4HyY8sgT2g

The Economist on kolkata’s deindustrialization and politics: India’s Havana or is it Detroit?nhttps://t.co/GovrxD7GB6

“@abuaardvark: Saudi war in Yemen was most underanalyzed issue in MidEast in 2015." True but you helped me do this: https://t.co/hFeXEOhkgM

Subimal Misra on the extraordinary political violence in Calcutta in 1970-1971: Police-Congress-CPI(M)-Naxalite.nhttps://t.co/puGKJgrIP4

Some flavorful background on Kolkata's marginality in post independence India and its prospects by Ian Jack https://t.co/E2akHcwpOn

Amartya Sen makes headlines in Kolkata with quotes about impact of left on west bengal economy and their ousternhttps://t.co/GXLyL9qDLt

KADINGIRRA — Failed Architecture essay on Pouria Khojastehpay's amazing photomontages https://t.co/HaWJOOgc0u

The real "war on Christmas" https://t.co/LFE7iI0EzD

In 2011 census Indian migrant numbers expected to reach 400m half global total of 740m and twice China’s 221mnhttps://t.co/mK7Hz9JyLf

Where migration is a truly MASS condition: Indian census of 2001 found that of pop of 1.028 bn 307 m were migrants nhttps://t.co/xAif0BRr1H

On historical development, social, religious diversity of Kolkata’s slums – 20-30 % of population or c.1.5m peoplenhttps://t.co/j2lrsOa7Nb

the routine crisis of migration: Kolkata, the entry way to the Ganges flooded with desperate & impoverished migrants https://t.co/v4GnuOs5Ms

Kolkata, the entry way to the Ganges flooded with desperate and impoverished migrants https://t.co/v4GnuOs5Ms

70 % of adults in kolkata displays symptoms of respiratory illness due to intense pollutionnhttps://t.co/fZRTRYJjRa

Kolkata most polluted city in India. But environmental monitoring lax.nhttps://t.co/MyViNZ2khD

Kolkata smog no joke. US consulate reports hazardous pollution levelsnhttps://t.co/T6XdaSAuRJnwhole mind-blowing city veiled in sulphur haze

Smell of coal-fired Smog in Delhi is eerily evocative of 1980s gdr!!

In the middle globally seems an odd description … Us deviates wildly from income adjusted norm! https://t.co/7qcs1WidHg

Merkel’s all conquering CDU received only 6 donations in excess of 70k euros.nhttps://t.co/lsinBwuFRs

Largest single donation to any German political party was 252400 Euros to the COMMUNIST party of Germany nhttps://t.co/lsinBwuFRs

All German political parties together in 2015 received large donations (50k+) of derisory 1.5 m Euros. nhttps://t.co/lsinBwuFRs