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“Life Cycle” my first documentary film on bicycling, air pollution & urban mobility in India. 42 min English subtitles.
Screen & share.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eljw…
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Coming up this term the Modern South Asian Studies @CSASPOxford @StAntsCollege Seminars with @ankitapandey110 @GowharFaroq @MaliniSur
All welcome - Starts Tue 13 October
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On Anticipatory Complicity — Durba Mitra muse.jhu.edu/article/994228
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Applications are open for the 2026 Hugh Owen Prize. SASAA's $500 award for the best undergraduate essay on South Asia (any discipline, any nationality, 4,000 words max).
Submit by 31 Aug.
For details visit: southasianstudies.org.au/pri… #SASAA
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Evacuation orders means things like people being unable to go for dialysis or other such routine life-maintaining treatments, or the collapse of fragile livelihoods they spent years to build and maintain. It's lethality in a humanitarian way you don't notice on a screen.
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What a gorgeous set of essays in CSSH, responding to a prompt by Andrew Shryock about concept work from On the Semicivilized. dukeupress.edu/on-the-semici…. I learned so much and am so inspired by these scholars and the worlds they shared.
The feature includes captivating essays by @ottomanchoon, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Ahmad Bishara, Anoush Tamar Suni, and Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Stay tuned for @JElyachar's response!
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I'm an anthropologist living and working in Beirut. In Fall 2024 Palestinian friends of mine from Tyre stayed with me during the war. I wrote about it and how it was like. My friends from Tyre are staying with me again, I'm posting this text, because imaginations of war are so...
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@nbt_india We are a small indie press, so it hurts a lot to pay over 50k for a 3*2 stall and then get damaged panels and no furniture at all (even though we paid for a constructed stall). Also, people came and messed with our material lying inside this morning, and stole a chair we rented from a vendor. #EpicFail
And as promised here is the trailer: Parramatta Redux (38 min) screening at #ParramattaTownHall Nov 14, 2025. After two and half years in the making! @abcnews @SBS
After almost 3 years #Parramatta Redux (38 min) is ready!!! Screening this Friday Nov 14, at 6 pm at the Parramatta Townhall. Come all! @abcnews @SBS @parracity @westsyduics @westernsydneyu
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Call for papers for the Yale Modern South Asia from advanced PHD students Workshop @YaleSouthAsia . Link below
macmillan.yale.edu/southasia…
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Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, themed “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives,” to be held June 8-12, 2026. Apply by Nov. 3, 2025: sites.psu.edu/vergeglobalasi…
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.@tarangini_s and my expanded essay in @TheIndiaForum on the on-going revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and what it says about documents, identification, belonging, and the contemporary Indian state. #SIR theindiaforum.in/politics/wh…
What is theory?
A postgraduate symposium @westsyduics & @Sydney_Uni Sep 23, 2025.
For doctoral scholars/ECRs across social sciences, humanities & law.
@westernsydneyu Parramatta City Campus.
Panelists from ANU, @Macquarie_Uni, @SOAS, @UTS, @westernsydneyu @Sydney_Uni.
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And here it is - The Cambridge Companion to Periyar! Delighted to have coedited the volume with @ARV_Chalapathy. We have an amazing set of contributors here. Book will be released at a big event - more details soon! Many thanks to @qudsiya_Ah @RanaAnwesha & others @CambridgeUP.
Announcing 'The Cambridge Companion to #Periyar', a landmark work & our foremost publication in 2025. Developed over several years with an exceptional team of editors @ARV_Chalapathy & @KRManoharan & contributors, it brings critical insights on the modern thinker's ideas & legacy
ALT https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-periyar/5349F4B097E2F671F41E653F8F966610
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"What India is seeing today is the creation of a new category of people whose citizenship is suspect because of caste, class, gender, name, language, occupation and, even, speech, dress and deportment."
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Looking forward to reading this special issue on India’s borderlands with contributions @salahpunathil @RitapriyaNandy & others.
After two years of persistent efforts, the special issue of Asian Ethnicity “Migration and Borderlands: Ethnographic Explorations from India” is finally out in the world! Congrats to @salahpunathil for pulling this off!
tandfonline.com/toc/caet20/2…
#migration #borders #southasia
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Thrilled to share my first single-authored article from my PhD work, which has been published in Asian Ethnicity.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
#southasia #borderlands #migration #asianethnicity
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This issue of The Continent includes
an excellent series of pieces on the war in Sudan by Sudanese authors. Read it instead of the recent Atlantic article.
thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/…