Robert Smith @Robosmit

Researching: health, clinics, and electoral politics in South Asia. PhD candidate @GVAGrad_anso. Visiting PhD Scholar @CSHDelhi. graduateinstitute.ch/discover-insti… India Joined May 2012

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SOAS South Asia Institute @SOAS_SAI

4 months ago

Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society 🗓️19 - 20 June 2025, 10am 📌S312 (Paul Webley Wing), SOAS Registration: shorturl.at/w9XPG Programme 👇

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Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval

4 months ago

It's part of a long-running movement, some of it is covered here:

Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK

4 months ago

It's part of a long-running movement, some of it is covered here: https://t.co/jzkLIC0Kf1

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Wrote something for Public Culture on what Bulldozers have come to mean today. It engages Science and Technology studies with questions of contemporary politics in India and beyond. The proof copy is behind the paywall for a while. Here is the link. read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…

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PC Saidalavi @pc_saidalavi

5 months ago

Thrilled to share the cover of my book, forthcoming from @PennPress 😍❤️

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Kiran Kumbhar @kikumbhar

5 months ago

In the public health literature on India, one thing folks like me dont agree with is the persistent belief that India is 'resource-poor' or has 'insufficient funds' for taking care of its people. Awesom that back in 1971, KS Sanjivi had already made this point: India ain't poor.

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Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval

5 months ago

Meera Nanda - A Field Guide to Post-Truth India Explains a lot of the nonsense we see today in terms of saffronized institutional discourse and its intellectual roots - especially in the fields of science, medicine and education - while offering solid rebuttals. Read:

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Ritwika Patgiri @RitwikaPatgiri

5 months ago

Very interesting read so far.

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Purva Dewoolkar @purvadewoolkar

6 months ago

Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

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Rohit @itihaasnaama

6 months ago

Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia cambridge.org/core/books/ass…

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Ismat Ara @IsmatAraa

6 months ago

The past few days have been a harsh lesson in how India's top private hospitals treat EWS patients. What unfolded at @fortis_hospital in Delhi was not just negligence, it was open discrimination. A case study on how healthcare, at its worst, becomes a privilege, not a right:

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Sukhada @appadappajappa

6 months ago

Want to pick up a great book to read on Women’s Day? These are my 5 recommendations - 1) Why Loiter? This book is such an eye-opener on how we perceive and behave in public spaces and how inherently gendered these spaces are. Fantastic for working towards an inclusive world!

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Robert Smith @Robosmit

6 months ago

18 months later. That was hard. Lots to write. I didnt feel safe posting much on twitter during the duration of my research. Will be nice to be back, and redicosver my voice. Fieldwork: done ✔️

Robert Smith @Robosmit

2 years ago

18 months later. That was hard. Lots to write. I didnt feel safe posting much on twitter during the duration of my research. Will be nice to be back, and redicosver my voice. Fieldwork: done ✔️ https://t.co/MgUfbmODIB

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Akshay Marathe @AkshayMarathe

7 months ago

AAP has made lots of mistakes - but this 2025 election loss cannot be attributed to a single one of them. BJP won thru a brazen power grab. Other explanations are missing the giant elephant in the room - a BJP that is subverting our democracy. theprint.in/opinion/bjp-de…

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Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai

9 months ago

It's practically nightmare going to big private hospitals. You get the sense from minute you step foot they are preparing you to spend as much money as possible before they let you leave. We recently went to prominent hospital in NCR to doctor who came recommended for my mother

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Rebecca Waxman @RebeccaWaxman1

9 months ago

The CfP for the UCLA Center for India and South Asia (CISA) Interdisciplinary Grad Conference (May 17 '25) is live. Please submit abstracts and share widely: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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Kiran Kumbhar @kikumbhar

10 months ago

Ppl r rightly mad about a new South Asian ('Indian') history textbook by an academician whose Twitter feed contains massive red (& bhagwa) flags. Just taking the opportunity to remind folks of a brilliant history textbook they might never have heard of. G. Aloysius's eye-opener:

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Siddharth @DearthOfSid

a year ago

How people are fooled to work against their collective interests by popular capitalist propaganda tropes: a thread 🧵

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Josh Ellis @jzellis

10 months ago

OK, let me solve American "economic anxiety" very quickly. I'm gonna sort it out for you in less than ten tweets and then you won't have that excuse anymore. You ready? Here goes. The cause is capitalism and greed. That's it. Nothing else. Just that.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel

10 months ago

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and…

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Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan

10 months ago

Casteist Pure Veg peeps have more blóód on their hands than all of India's meat eaters combined. Theyd rather let malnourished kids in India dié a slow painful deáth than let them have eggs for mid day meal. Janeu over children, clearly! From here (m.thewire.in/article/caste/…)