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Good morning to everyone but especially to me & @WestlandBooks because it's my book's official birthday. A Man for All Seasons is out & about in bookstores & online ✨
Good morning to everyone but especially to me & @WestlandBooks because it's my book's official birthday. A Man for All Seasons is out & about in bookstores & online ✨
‘JOYLAND’ writer-director Saim Sadiq has finished the script for his next film, ‘LITTLE MEN.’ Plot details are being kept under wraps for the project which is reportedly set in Manhattan.
This beautiful little book has just arrived - some text and lots of gamcha photos. You can buy a copy here - dastkarihaat.com/products/the-l… @JaitlyJaya
My book 'In the Shadow of Minority Rights' published by Cambridge University Press is now available to order on Amazon tinyurl.com/4327kyx3 Also available online on Cambridge core: tinyurl.com/2de32hjh Many thanks again to the wonderful editorial team of CUP
The fourth book in the INDIAN LIVES series that I edit is out. Peter Heehs’s magnificent biography recounts in riveting detail how Mirra Alfassa made the journey from the art salons of Paris to becoming ‘The Mother’ of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Available online and in bookshops.
"Patchwork Ethnography", co-authored by our professor Gökçe Günel (@drgokcegunel), is now the second most downloaded article in American Ethnologist! See the full text, open access: tinyurl.com/2anxhdys
📢On International Archives Day (June 9), IIMA Archives is delighted to launch "Archives on India", a digital public good that lists and maps 500+ archives and repositories. A must-see for history-buffs!! 🧵1/5 google.com/maps/d/viewer?…
#AnthroTwitter, we are accepting pitches for book reviews that focus on new works of theory that often aren't reviewed in anthro journals (but which may come to be influential in anthro). Some ideas of new ones below
📚 'The loneliness room: A creative ethnography of loneliness' is the latest book in the #Anthropology, Creative Practice & #Ethnography series from @ManchesterUP ⌲ Edited by @FayeGinsburg, @jolynnasinanan, Andrew Irving & @Pinkydigital Find it here ⤵️ buff.ly/43bKo1v
Talal Asad and Webb Keane are both critical of Charles Taylor's arguments in A Secular Age but on different grounds. Thinking of productive ways of thinking of anthro as a kind of engaged critical philosophy while getting ready to teach Charles Taylor.
Fun chat with @bala_devarajan about data, India, and embracing the mess open.spotify.com/episode/75k5CC…
Periyar said ‘There is no equal to Dr. Ambedkar in India.’ He held #Ambedkar in great regard and saw him as an inspiration for all oppressed communities. Here's an article of mine on the intellectual relation between the two leaders. #AmbedkarJayanti tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…
When the grassroots economist Jean Drèze speaks, listen.. @EconomicTimes @TribalArmy @JharkhandJanad1 @JmmJharkhand economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections…
An article on Dalit feminism, worth a read. feminisminindia.com/2024/03/27/fro…
Par for the course. Plugging my article on failed queer revolutions in India & what we might learn from queer of colour critique. Free access. I received quite a bit of flak (euphemism for right wing threats) since I critiqued hindutva queer stars (pics). graat.fr/LGBTQ02.pdf
Par for the course. Plugging my article on failed queer revolutions in India & what we might learn from queer of colour critique. Free access. I received quite a bit of flak (euphemism for right wing threats) since I critiqued hindutva queer stars (pics). graat.fr/LGBTQ02.pdf https://t.co/Ekxspxb1mh
Vidyadhar Pathak spent nearly three decades with MMRDA in urban planning and has a great sense of what works and what does not work in India's messy urbanization. New book, at age 78, puts his articles across decades together in one volume.
A project that ran for over #two years finally comes to an end (almost). Presenting before you a special issue of @cdjplus on #queer and #trans community building in post-#NALSA and post-377 #India. The editorial: academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-ar… (#openaccess)
Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data
Prepare to immerse yourself in a unique fusion of poetic depth & scholarly discourse as Atreyee Majumder & Prashant Keshavmurthy unite to explore 'The Book of Blue'. Join us for an evening where poetry transcends boundaries & conversation ignites the soul on April 28th at 6:30 pm

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