It’s my quarterly reading update! Some of these were 🙌🏻 Struggling to find time the past few months (new job/single parent life) but loved @anniemacmanus @ZadieSmith@cydharrell (finally read months after @MarMurube sent it to me!) & starting ‘get divorced by happy’ tonight 😂
#TheHinduNewsQuiz
Which table tennis player, who just bagged a gold in singles in the #TokyoOlympics, is nicknamed "The Dictator"?
1. Fan Zhendong
2. Ma Long
3. Meng Chen
4. Timo Boll
To find the answer and play the full quiz, visit: trib.al/kF9Ymno
The August 2021 issue—The RSS’s attempt to hide its Nazi heritage; Playing politics with judicial commissions; The Naga peace process in peril; How Indian anthropology fails tribal people; PG Wodehouse and the comic tradition; and more: bit.ly/3zYsuiY
It. Is. Here!
I’ve never waited so breathlessly for a book’s arrival.
As always, a @DukePress cover is a stunning cover.
@bjorkman_d can’t wait to discuss with you — and you, @Dr_mauraf ❤️
@BediTarini, welcome to twitter! ✨
Friends, do your thing and pre-order this promising new book by Dr. Tarini Bedi 💫
I can’t wait to read it:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574…
Wrote a short essay on the dissonance of distance from home during the pandemic and how it’s made me think about my identity as a diasporic subject.
It’s published on EPW, but it’s paywalled…
So, I’m going rogue and here it is: drive.google.com/file/d/1H0NmCb…
In my latest article out with the awesome @socprobsjournal, I write about the gender/class dynamics of safety in cabs in Hyderabad, India.
Find attached abstract and here is the link to the article: academic.oup.com/socpro/advance…
Comment for access, as always.
Profile | With its planned streets, intricate water management system and architectural features, the ancient Harappan city located at #Dholavira in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch has a lot to offer on the ancient civilisation.
trib.al/iiOtLZl
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
~ William Wilberforce
In 2018 alone, 50,000 victims in 148 countries.
Our society is plagued by evil of #humantrafficking , accounting for too many innocent lives uprooted and exploited.
Percentage of per-existing factors that #traffickers have taken advantage of:
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. Zadie Smith
#EndHumantrafficking#Awareness
"Where might the poem begin? Where might it end? What is essential, and what can fall away? What are the other possibilities?" Words to remember, from the wonderful poet Maggie Smith.
"Where might the poem begin? Where might it end? What is essential, and what can fall away? What are the other possibilities?" Words to remember, from the wonderful poet Maggie Smith.
for a minute about how COVID has changed everything. She went back to her scripted last line of telling ke to contact the bank if I required a loan. I said I would and we said “bye” and hung up. I hope she smiled.
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