Ananya Singh

1 month ago | thewire.in | Ananya Singh

Srikar Raghavan’s Rama Bhima Soma is an ambitious and deeply immersive project – a roving inquiry into the tumultuous and electrifying decades that shaped modern Karnataka. An intellectual history, a travelogue, a work of literary excavation, Rama Bhima Soma resists easy categorisation, much like the very cultural landscape it seeks to map.

2 months ago | madrascourier.com | Ananya Singh

Few things are as predictable in modern India as the state’s knee-jerk reaction to controversy: a call for tighter controls and broader censorship, all under the guise of “morality.” The manufactured outrage machine has found its latest victim. A few crude, unfunny remarks on a show called India’s Got Latent have somehow spiralled into a full-blown national scandal. FIRs have been lodged, and moral panic has been unleashed.

Jan 7, 2025 | dev.to | Ananya Singh

React 19 introduces a game-changing built-in compiler that automatically optimizes components during development. This feature minimizes unnecessary re-renders by handling performance improvements in the background, reducing the need for manual usage of useMemo or useCallback. The compiler analyzes component dependencies and optimizes rendering, making apps faster and more efficient.

Oct 31, 2024 | storybench.org | Ananya Singh

The U.S. presidential election is five days away, and it's going to be close. Or is it? CNN Senior Political Data Reporter Harry Enten noted last week that despite polling showing a historically close race, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris could still capture more than 300 out of 538 electoral votes - a relative landslide by recent standards. Storybench spoke to Enten about his approach to polling analysis and what the data might reveal about this election's final stretch.

Oct 10, 2023 | theswaddle.com | Ananya Singh

Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the 2023 Nobel economics prize for “having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.” Goldin’s research was the “first comprehensive account” of women’s participation in the labor force which helped explain the gender gap in employment and pay; that is, why women are likely to work less, and earn less, than men. Goldin is only the third woman to win this prize – Elinor Ostrom won it in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019.