Resources

I enjoy making lists. I'll keep updating this one as and when I find new and interesting things.

1. Blogs

   • Tejus' blog - blogger helped me survive the last years of college.
   • Alice's Adventures in Numberland by Prof. Alice Silverberg - helped me cope with the sexism and misogyny in STEM.
   • Different Strokes - Prof. V.S. Sunder's blog - helps you notice the various ways in which someone can be excluded.
   • Health and its social determinants - Dr Sylvia Karpagam tries to ensure that the children attending govt. schools especially in Karnataka aren't cheated off the nutrients they derive from the 'midday meal'. Rabbit hole. If you have ever wondered how and why caste affects nutrition and growth, do check.
   • Gravity and Levity - Dr Brian Skinner's blog. Ignore the physics ones if you are not a person of physics but make sure to check out the rest, there's education and drama in academia.
   • For Better Science - Dr Leonid Schneider's blog. There's a lot of drama in academia (formal way to put that would be 'lack of integrity and ethics') and he writes about it. My favorite is Student, Meet Bus - story from namma Bengaluru.
   • The Student Watch - website run by Sahel Iqbal, platform for students to vent about issues they face in Indian educational institutes as an Indian. (Ignore the use of BLM images, the analogous ones from our country are graphic and ugly.)
   • engineuring Alexandra Elbakyan's blog. Sci-Hub.

2. Comics

   • xkcd
   • PhD comics - STEM
   • Emma - helped me see patriarchy better
   • The Nib political cartoons, current affairs, graphic journalism
   • Calvin and Hobbes

3. Donate money to -

   • TeX Users Group
   • The News Minute - Indian digital news platform that's got a decent number of women in its top positions.
   • Survival International - group that works with tribal people to campaign, lobby and protest for their land rights.
   • The Polis Project - journalism focusing on racial, class and caste injustice, Islamophobia and State oppression around the world. New York based, founded by Suchitra Vijayan a photographer and the author of Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India.

4. Games

   • The Guardian Quick crossword
   • Baker's game
   • slither.io
   • Sudoku - level:evil
   • Loop the loop
   • Minesweeper

5. For the people living in India

   • Resources for understanding the caste system - India Ink
   • Parliament debates, court judgements, searchable Constitution - Indian Kanoon
   • Law collective aiding aggrieved students - Legal Collective For Students’ Rights

6. For the mentally ill

   • self care for when you feel like shit
   • Sensory grounding exercise for when you have a panic or an anxiety attack

Last updated on 17 December, 2023