Author Archives: Rashid Faridi

About Rashid Faridi

I am Rashid Aziz Faridi ,Writer, Teacher and a Voracious Reader.

Agri Land Ceiling Act

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on India Farms Blog:
How much agri land is too much as per Govt law? Know your limits otherwise you will end up loosing some. Ceiling Limits on Land Holdings (IN Ha.) Irrigated with two crops Irrigated…

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What is resilience?

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Interesting alternatives if not contradictions in understanding “resilience” in recent publications. Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun understand resilience as a Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus): we understand resilience as a mode of governing the ‘ecological’ city. In Resilient…

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Supercomputer says no: gridding the Earth in next-generation weather and climate models

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on ClimateSnack:
The “Yin-Yang” grid, or “tennis ball” grid, is under consideration for use in future climate models. Making a timely weather forecast, or running a high-resolution global climate model, requires the use of a massive supercomputer.? Simulations…

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An Ice Age for Indian scholarship

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
These are lonely times for scholarship in India.Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book ‘The Hindus:An alternative history’ by…