@chandra_rums

Lawyer & Researcher @cis_cnrs, @OKFN. Alum @nyulaw + @wbnujskolkata. Law, STS, data commons. Lover of first rains, cats and chai.

Joined December 2014
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Yes ofcourse. Because banning books always eliminates « false narratives » Job well done…
Greater Kashmir
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#JammuAndKashmir | Govt bans publication of 25 books, declares their publication and their copies and other documents to be forfeited to the government. As per the Home department, these books "propagate false narrative and secessionism in J&K".
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Socio-Legal Review@SLR_NLSIU11 Apr 2025
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 21(2)! We seek research articles, case comments, and Notes from the Field based on the Special Issue Theme of Law and Culture. Deadline: May 31, 2025
Poster for the Socio-Legal Review (SLR) journal published by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. The poster announces a "Call for Papers" for Volume 21(2), themed Law and Culture. Submission deadline is May 31, 2025. Submissions can be made at [https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr](https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr). The background features a monochrome image by Raghu Rai showing a crowded, possibly industrial or railway setting, overlaid with a yellow tint.

ALT Poster for the Socio-Legal Review (SLR) journal published by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. The poster announces a "Call for Papers" for Volume 21(2), themed Law and Culture. Submission deadline is May 31, 2025. Submissions can be made at [https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr](https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr). The background features a monochrome image by Raghu Rai showing a crowded, possibly industrial or railway setting, overlaid with a yellow tint.

Poster for the Socio-Legal Review (SLR) announcing a Special Issue: Law and Culture. The background shows a grayscale image by Raghu Rai of people sitting and dancing on a patterned carpet, with a yellow-tinted banner overlay. The poster invites contributions exploring the entanglement between law and culture — addressing questions of censorship, resistance, cultural artefacts in legal texts, and the role of cinema, art, performance, and literature in shaping identity, citizenship, caste, and belonging. It welcomes interdisciplinary work, especially from the margins of caste, gender, sexuality, and region, broadly interpreting culture to include film, theatre, photography, performance, comedy, and more.

ALT Poster for the Socio-Legal Review (SLR) announcing a Special Issue: Law and Culture. The background shows a grayscale image by Raghu Rai of people sitting and dancing on a patterned carpet, with a yellow-tinted banner overlay. The poster invites contributions exploring the entanglement between law and culture — addressing questions of censorship, resistance, cultural artefacts in legal texts, and the role of cinema, art, performance, and literature in shaping identity, citizenship, caste, and belonging. It welcomes interdisciplinary work, especially from the margins of caste, gender, sexuality, and region, broadly interpreting culture to include film, theatre, photography, performance, comedy, and more.

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Yatharth@thestrangerobot27 Mar 2025
What a masterclass example of AI being the Aesthetics of facism
Pulkit S Bisht
@PulkitSBisht26 Mar 2025
The Watershed Moment 🚩
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Road Scholarz@roadscholarz9 Mar 2025
Anganwadi workers in Chhattisgarh will be on strike tomorrow. Reason? Digital tyranny in the distribution of take-home rations (THR), now conditional on Aadhaar, recipient OTP, photo uploading, etc. AWWs are threatened with salary cuts if they fail.
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Maadhyam
@maadhyam_engage30 Jan 2024
No, this is not a satirical post. This is as real as it can get! 1. The current term of #LokSabha hasn't had a Deputy Speaker yet. This is unprecedented. It violates Article 93 of the #ConstitutionOfIndia & Govt is about to get away with it without any consequences. 2. The current 17th Lok Sabha likely to be the full term LS with least number of #Parliament sittings, only 278 (approx, including the scheduled dates of upcoming last session). This is an average of only 56 days in a year. In 2020, #COVID19 became an excuse to bring down number of Parliament sittings to a historic low of only 33 days in a year. We plan to export #Aadhaar and #UPI to the world, but we couldn't convene virtual Parliament sessions, which many democracies did. 3. With less number of Parliament sittings, Govt relied more on Ordinances - 76 Ordinances between 2014-2021. · The three controversial #farmlaws were first brought as Ordinances as people were busy surviving the first wave of Covid in 2020. Contd.. in #Thread
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Ashok Kumar
@comrade_kumar_10 Jan 2025
43,000 ASHA community health workers in Karnataka with 100% union density just won a 20% pay rise after a massive struggle!
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Carlos Azevedo@cprazevedo17 Dec 2024
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is now rarely mentioned by mainstream media outlets. We are witnessing the normalisation of the utmost barbarity.
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Aakar Patel@Aakar__Patel15 Nov 2024
Read the demands here and sign the open letter so that our Parliamentarians represent our unified voice of solidarity with Palestinians - forms.gle/u8TTVitQWAccDnpE7
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📃 We are happy to publicly announce our new project with @cis_cnrs: "From Open Data to Sustainable Data Commons" 🤗 Together with our communities, we want to build better governance mechanisms and legal tools to develop and maintain the #datacommons. 👉🏾 okfn.org/en/projects/sustain…
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Sharing an article that has been a loooong time in the making. So happy it's found a home in @SLR_NLSIU . Super grateful to @GuariniGlobal and @DataJusticeLab for their support and advice in shaping the ideas at the heart of this paper. And I'm grateful for any feedback!
Socio-Legal Review@SLR_NLSIU7 Oct 2024
In the latest Advance Article for our print journal, Ramya Chandrasekhar (@chandra_rums) brings to focus India's National Digital Health Ecosystem through the lens of data infrastructures, the politics of public spheres, and regulatory law. Read now: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol…
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Some related works-in-progress: (1) The imaginary of 'frictionless' data flows in the NDHE and its impact on India's health data regulations; (2) Politics of India's Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network. Would love to connect with folx working on these issues!
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Jai Vipra@JaaiVipra7 Oct 2024
I tried to make the point here for @epw_in that Indian economic problems are not inherently use cases for AI, and thought through some directions for a people-centred AI policy. Includes looking at generative AI as part of the recent history of Big Tech. epw.in/journal/2024/40/insig…
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Ignacio Cofone@IgnacioCofone3 Oct 2024
This study on how disparities in historical data led to unequal outcomes in healthcare AI systems shows pretty well that AI fairness isn't just about fixing code to correct statistical bias—it’s about understanding social dynamics too. buff.ly/4gegMGR
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✍🏽 📃 "Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons", a policy brief by @avilarenata @OKFN, @melanieddr @chandra_rums @cis_cnrs, and @Andrew_Rens @RIAnetwork, submitted to T20 @g20org. blog.okfn.org/2024/07/15/pol… 🧵👇🏽
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Aasif Mujtaba
@MujtabaAasif13 Jul 2024
Umar Khalid completes 1400 days in jail WITHOUT TRIAL. While Sharjeel Imam completes 1690 days of incarceration. Is there any limit to the time someone can be kept in jail without trial? Looks like in UAPA, it's indefinite. #UmarKhalid1400DaysInJail #ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
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CodingRights@CodingRights21 Jun 2024
[LAUNCHING] Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem, a policy briefing by @joana_varon @schock and @timnitGebru, submitted to T20 @g20org . Can we foster alternative ecosystems for AI development beyond the harmful "one model fits all" sold by Big Tech? codingrights.org/docs/Federa…
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Amnesty Tech@AmnestyTech11 Jun 2024
🚨@Amnesty’s new briefing exposes that @Meta platforms & @tiktok_us removed abortion-related content since the 2022 US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. As a result, increasing barriers to information for people who can become pregnant. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

United States:  Social media companies’ removal of abortion-related content may hinder access to...

Removal of abortion-related content on social media platforms with inadequate or unclear justification can contribute to the increasing challenges in accessing abortion care and threatens the right...

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Laila@babubisleriiiii4 Jun 2024
rishton ke bhi roop badalte hain
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🌟 Today! 🌟 Join us to discuss #OpenDataCommons in the age of #AI and #BigData. 👇🏽 @CPDPconferences panel by @cis_cnrs with @melanieddr @avilarenata @alex_giann @chandra_rums @hbroom & @BenhamouYaniv.
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📃 We're looking to develop #OpenDataCommons licences more suited to today's times. If you're in Brussels, don't miss next week's panel by @cis_cnrs at @CPDPconferences with @melanieddr @avilarenata @alex_giann @chandra_rums @hbroom & @BenhamouYaniv 👉🏾 cpdpconferences.org/registra…
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