Mahboob's Journal

11-May-2020 Did India miss a trick in testing? [Mint] Countries with relatively high testing rates had to impose fewer lockdown restrictions, and have been able to open up far more quicker than India. KCR-chaired meet favours controlled farming [The Hindu] Denial of Rythu Bandhu, MSP to farmers not raising crops suggested by government mooted https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/kcr-chaired-meet-favours-controlled-farming/article31552943.ece Plasma therapy trials from today [The Hindu] 15 people, who recovered from COVID, ready to donate their plasma

Donald Trump posts a link to his very own ‘Real News Update’ on Facebook. Donald J. Trump/Facebook John Keane , University of Sydney This article is part of the Revolutions and Counter Revolutions series, curated by Democracy Futures as a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. It is also part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative , a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. This essay is much longer than most Conversation articles, so will take some time to read. Enjoy! We live in an unfinished revolutionary age of communicative abundance. Networked digital machines and information flows are slowly but surely shaping practically every institution in which we live our daily lives. For the first time in history, thanks to built-in ch