Amogh Dhar Sharma
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at @ODID_QEH . Research political parties, election campaigns & opinion polls in India. Tweet in my personal capacity (duh).
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Happy to share that I have been awarded a
@LeverhulmeTrust
Early Career Fellowship for my next project: ‘Pulse of a Nation: The Life of Opinion Polls and Psephology in India’s Democracy’. After the debacle of the
#2024ExitPolls
, can’t think of a better time to be starting this!
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As
#PrashantKishor
continues to trend, very happy to share that I have received the first proofs of my book! Look out for chapter 6 if you wanna know more about the man, the myth, the legend.
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My book finally has a cover!😁
Cover illustration by the insanely talented
@JajuMahima
. And generous endorsements by
@MukulikaB
,
@jaffrelotc
, and
@rahul_tverma
. Should be in-stock by the end of September!
Big thanks to
@RanaAnwesha
,
@SaniyaPuri007
,
@qudsiya_Ah
& their team.
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Today’s random find: Nehru throwing shade at Firaq Gorakhpuri.
(From a letter to Indira Gandhi)
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Super excited to share that I have signed a book contract with
@CambridgeUP
for my first monograph. Provisionally titled:
‘The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them’
Excited to be working with
@RanaAnwesha
and
@qudsiya_Ah
on this!
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Viva done! Can’t remember a time in life when I wasn’t thinking about this thesis. Some sense of closure for now. So glad I could get Nikita and
@jaffrelotc
as my examiners - two scholars whose work I have long admired.
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You were born in Shimla; grew up there. You have literally ZERO (yes, I can type in upper case too) claims of being Kashmiri.
Like you, I too have a Kashmiri Pandit surname, and so I’m calling BULLSHIT on your fake victimhood. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I HAVE WOKEN UP IN NY TO THE BEST NEWS OF MY LIFE ABOUT KASHMIR. AND ON THE DAY MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
#LessonsLifeTaughtMeUnknowingly
RELEASES! WHAT BETTER GIFT LIFE STORY OF A KASHMIRI BOY COULD GET. THANK YOU GOD,
#GovtOfIndia
, PM
@narendramodi
,
@AmitShah
. CONGRATULATIONS INDIA.🇮🇳🇮🇳
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Spending a relaxing Sunday colour coding my bookshelf. Some of them are refusing to comply…
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Folks holding up ‘Queers for Palestine’ banners at
#DelhiPride
have more spine than the entire editorial team at
@ThePrintIndia
. Calling it a “cry for attention” is patronising nonsense.
What is worse it betrays a lack of understanding of global LGBTQ history. (1/3)
'Queer for Palestine helps neither queer nor Palestine. It’s just a cry for attention'
@NikhilRampal1
writes in ThePrint
#PoV
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If any PhD student is feeling disheartened after seeing this, then here’s something cheerful:
Chris Bayly’s PhD thesis in the Bodleian from 1970. Previous readers: Gyan Pandey (1972), Claude Markovits (1973), and Shahid Amin (1974).
A rare example, perhaps. But it happens! 😄
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Ever wondered who was India's first political consultant? A tiny excerpt from my upcoming book published in
@thewire_in
today:
The Cautious Rise of Political Consulting in India an excerpt from
@AmoghDS
' book with
@CUPAcademic
– 'The Backstage of Democracy'.
@qudsiya_Ah
@SaniyaPuri007
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Thought of the day: Flakiness is a terrible quality when found in human beings, but an excellent quality in Nizam’s Kathi Rolls.
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Absolutely disgraceful that a senior US academic should accuse an Indian journalist of being a Pakistani mole just because she’s questioning what’s happening in Kashmir.
@RanaAyyub
is one of the bravest journalists India has today.
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This tweet helped me. I had a job interview yesterday where I thought I did sufficiently well. Today I got the rejection email. Feeling terribly miserable.
Sharing this here because the only thing worse than being on social media is making it only about our success stories...
My grant got rejected. I failed. So I'm saying it on Twitter. I don't want sympathy. I just wish people would say stuff like this on Twitter.
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Arrived just in time for the lockdown. Can’t wait to dig in!
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The easiest way to get radicalized is trying to find an affordable place to live in Oxford.
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Modi’s statement that those protesting can be “identified by the clothes they are wearing” is no dog-whistle. It’s nakedly communal and needs to be called out for what it is. This is the true face of the man. Plain and simple.
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My new article out in
@FCCPolitics
! ‘Mr. Clean’ and his ‘computer boys’: technology, technocracy, and de-politicisation in the INC (1981–1991).
One of the first bits from my PhD that I wrote up and it has been a labour of love. Also, it’s open access!
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Pleased to share the schedule for our workshop on 'Cultures of Data and Datafication' taking place on 7th July 2022.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by
@SVRuparelia
.
Register NOW:
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(1/4) Start of a new academic year in Oxford today. It is also EXACTLY 10 years since I first arrived in the UK! I remember that it was a cold and grey day, and I felt terribly home sick. Only one of those two things is true today :)
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As Oxford touches a scorching 38 degrees, an important reminder that KwK’s rapid fire round has always been ahead of the curve… 😆
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Today I submitted my PhD thesis!
Thread 👇🏽
In the last few years, I have often wondered what this day would look like. Somehow, in my mind's eye I always imagined that it would be a nice sunny day, I would walk into the exam schools with a hardcopy of the thesis in my hands,...
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Oxford is so obsessed with being No.1 that it’s all set to be the first uni in the UK to call the police on its students.
#Shame
It is evident the administration would rather arrest, silence, and physically assault its own students than confront its enabling of israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Delighted to hear that my former student
@usamasalamat
is the joint winner of the BASAS Master’s Dissertation Prize. Usama’s thesis offered a stellar analysis of the civil society actors at the forefront of anti-blasphemy law activism in Pakistan. Richly deserved!
@ODID_QEH
Congratulations to Usama Salamat and Damni Kain, the winners of the BASAS Master's Dissertation Prize 2024!
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Absolutely aghast at the Indian government’s behaviour towards
@NitashaKaul
. Today it is Nitasha, tomorrow it could well be you and I. India is truly headed towards a point of no return…
IMPORTANT: Denied entry to
#India
for speaking on democratic & constitutional values. I was invited to a conference as esteemed delegate by Govt of
#Karnataka
(Congress-ruled state) but Centre refused me entry. All my documents were valid & current (UK passport & OCI). THREAD 1/n
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I hear a lot of people complaining that Heeramandi is not historically accurate. But I can personally vouch for the hardcore realism of this scene.
If I had a penny for each time this happened, I would be richer than Bhansali’s set designer.
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Look what arrived this morning! So excited to see this excellent volume put together by
@_pinheira
and
@estocastica
. Glad to have contributed a chapter to it based on some of my early research as a grad student.
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Serendipitous circumstances bringing 6 old friends together in London.
@KamraLipika
@ankitapandey110
@CMihika
@ShannonKPhilip
. Wishing a temporary farewell to Garima (who’s not on Twitter)!
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The trees on Parks Road are always the first to signal the arrival of fall in Oxford. 🍂🍂🍂🍂
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Rather fortuitous to receive this in the mail! In solidarity with
@PriyamvadaGopal
. ✊🏼
PS:
@VersoBooks
is having an excellent summer sale. Check it out!
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If it wouldn’t put me in violation of copyright law, I would print out copies of this essay and hand it out at street corners. Reading Pankaj Mishra feels like holding on to the last bits of sanity in a world gone mad.
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London today was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. No words can capture the solidarity that was on display. And a pleasant surprise to run into some of my students there! 🇵🇸✊🏼
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That time when Ludwig von Mises was
#AccidentallyLeftWing
.
From
@zeithistoriker
’s Globalists.
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Super excited to be a part of this
@routledgebooks
volume on ‘The Rise of Radical Right in the Global South’ being edited by
@_pinheira
and
@estocastica
!
I will be writing on the techniques of electoral mobilisation and social media used by the Hindu Right in India.
I am thrilled to share that
@estocastica
and I have signed a contract with Routledge Studies in Fascism and Far Right to edit the book “The rise of radical right in the Global South”, which presents cases from several parts of world: India, Brasil, South Africa, Philipines
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Best part about being back in Delhi: 1. Food
2. Catching up with friends
3. Watching old episodes of Koffee with Karan on Hotstar.
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Now reading: Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules.
Off to a good start, I’d say!
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Sometimes I think that my lack of (sufficient) interest in cricket will be my biggest barrier in cracking South Asian academia.
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Pleased to be featured on
@BASASofficial
’s Early Career Researcher profile this month. 😊
I write about my doctoral research on political parties and election campaigns in India:
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A wrote a thing! A short piece on the rise and rise of political consultants in India’s election campaigns, and their relationship with political parties.
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The joy of unexpectedly finding an amaltas tree in Oxford.
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Unlocked a new level of lockdown desperation today: bulk ordering Lay’s Magic Masala from Amazon. 😬😬
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Kicking off the
#ECSAS2023
panel on ‘Democratic Crisis in South Asia’ (w/
@diegoemme
and
@KamraLipika
). Excellent turnout for the first session.
@KatAdeney
and
@WilfriedSwenden
sharing their research on different types of authoritarian nationalisms in SA.
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Hard to think of another time when politicians in the Global North were so out of touch with public opinion outside their little fiefdoms.
Nothing screams imperial nostalgia louder than the hubris of thinking you can cherrypick international law when it suits you.
My statement on the Iranian regime’s attack on Israel.
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WSJ’s expose of Facebook India’s pro-BJP is only the tip of the iceberg. A much bigger story waiting to be uncovered is how big tech firms ghost-write sympathetic op-eds on “freedom of speech” for BJP ministers. Exhibit A:
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WOW.
That’s all I can manage to say after
@natcphd
’s fabulous Isaiah Berlin Lecture at
@WolfsonCollege
last night. Eagerly looking forward to the full book.
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Join us today for what promises to be a fascinating panel on campaign strategist in India. Starts at 6 pm (India time)/12:30 pm (UK time).
Parties & Candidates are increasingly employing consultants - can they win elections?
Please join us TODAY 6:00 pm with
@AmoghDS
@journogour
@politicalbaaba
&
@ajitphadnis
to understand what services do consultants provide.
Zoom Registration:
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The scale of the academic witch-hunt and crackdown taking place in Delhi right now is mind-boggling.
During my time at Hindu College, PK Vijayan was one of the most widely loved and respected professors in the English Department.
(I was in Econ & yet I knew of his popularity)
Professor PK Vijayan of English Department of Hindu College has been summoned by NIA under UAPA charges. SFI Hindu College stands in solidarity with Prof Vijayan against such blatant misuse of a law designed to curb dissent and create an atmosphere of fear and apprehension.
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Re-reading Katherine Frank’s biography of Indira Gandhi these days.
Struck by Indira’s description of her life in London in a letter to Nehru from August 1936.
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“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
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Of all the news stories that are making headlines today, it is curious that THIS is what Shekhar Gupta is highlighting from his personal handle.
No tweets about Modi invoking Adani, or his jibe about vote jihad so far. One has to ask: why foreground this news story over others?
In 1950-2015, Hindu population dipped from 85% to 78%, Muslims rose to 14% from 10% — PM-EAC paper
@rishachitlangia
reports for ThePrint
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Spent a lovely afternoon sampling the culinary delights that CR Park has to offer. Starting to realise why Bengalis love their Kasundi.
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I have so many questions...
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First day as a Lecturer at Queen's College - someone just asked me if I was one of the PPE freshers. A little less terrified about turning 27 later this month!
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And so starts Trinity Term at Oxford…
I find myself partially sympathising with Indira Gandhi in her letter to Nehru from January 1938:
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I sure as hell know how Twitter algorithms work. But I still find it staggering that each day my feed has at least 5 academics sharing that they are leaving academia.
This is truly a mass exodus in the making.
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This was so fuck all I’m in utter disbelief. Delhi has run out of Oxygen and this man wasted 15 minutes saying absolutely nothing.
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Finished the
#TrojanHorseAffair
Podcast and in genuine disbelief that it hasn’t managed to make bigger headlines in the UK. Have spent all week recommending it to anyone I happen to come across!
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From the Black Panthers in the US to the UK Miners’ Strike of the 1980s - there is a long history of solidarity between LGBTQ groups and other progressive causes. These were principles alliances, not a “call for attention”.
Where’s the editorial oversight,
@ShekharGupta
?
(2/3)
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One my biggest academic pet peeves: scholars who randomly add the phrase “spatiality and temporalities” in their writing.
Most of the time it adds zero analytical value to the sentence.
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At a college dinner last night, I happened to be sitting next to other early career scholars - DLs, JRFs.
The vast majority of the night was spent talking about how utterly unaffordable it is to live in Oxford for ECRs. How much longer can this continue?
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Self-proclaimed ‘progressive’ Americans (and their cheerleaders across the Atlantic) will bemoan the flaws of US democracy, yet refuse to give up delusions of American exceptionalism. That’s the first problem.
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Looking forward to Day 2 of the "True Costs of Misinformation" Workshop organised by
@Kennedy_School
@ShorensteinCtr
this afternoon. Excited to be speaking on the ‘Election Campaigns and Advertising’ panel.
Quite fitting I guess since the
#AssemblyElections2022
results are out.
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To borrow from the GenZ lingo - Yogendra Yadav ate!
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Reading Amartya Sen’s new memoir. The best anecdotes are from his time at Cambridge:
-His landlady’s fear of “coloured people”
-His college tutor offering him sherry
-Maurice Dobb’s advice on his PhD thesis.
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Sad to be leaving
@CSASPOxford
. Despite all the turmoil of last year, it provided an excellent starting point for someone fresh out of his PhD. Got the chance to work with some incredible students & colleagues -
@Kate_SdE
,
@NayanikaM
,
@KiraHuju
, Uma, Polly, Imre, Stephen… 🙂
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Excited about the (Dr.?) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan concert at the Oxford Town Hall tonight!
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‘Queers for Palestine’ matters precisely because this is a moment when Israel is stirring up homonationalism to justify its crimes against humanity in Gaza. The brainless op-ed in
@ThePrintIndia
recycles the same stereotypes that this pinkwashing campaign is premised upon. (3/3)
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Had the chance to speak to
@michaeljswalker
at
@novaramedia
last evening about the Indian general elections. Catch the full thing here:
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Earlier this week I had reported a handful of popular Twitter accounts for spreading fake news and communally inflammatory posts on the CAA protests. Today Twitter confirmed that these accounts have been suspended. 🥳
Drop in the ocean but it’s a start...!
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It cannot be emphasised enough - India is no longer a democracy. BJP has torn up the rule book and is having a good laugh at everyone’s expense.
All our bank accounts have been frozen. We cannot do our campaign work. We cannot support our workers and candidates. Our leaders cannot travel from one part of the country to the other. We're unable to put out our ads.
This is being done two months before the election campaign.
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AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN.
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Starting NOW!
Panel Discussion on the 2022 UP Elections. With Prof Sudha Pai &
@rahul_tverma
.
Join here:
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Finished the last of my tutorials with PPE and H&P 1st years at
@QueensCollegeOx
today.
Bitter-sweet feeling. The last year has been so hectic - finishing the PhD alongside weekly teaching. But undeniably rewarding given how sharp and engaged these students were.
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During the 1962 general elections, a conspiracy theory spread by the Jana Sangh claimed that Delhi's famous Ashoka hotel had been built for the sole purpose of preparing beef-based meals for Nehru.
Have to admit - the Hindu right is nothing if not persistent in its propaganda.
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Duflo & Banerjee recommend a “Covid-19 Marshall Plan”.
But I don’t know...How can we be sure that the Marshall Plan works? Has anyone done an RCT on it yet? 🙄🙄
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Keen to share more details on the project soon. But for now, glad to have had the support of
@professor_sud
,
@jaffrelotc
,
@MukulikaB
,
@hodgdan
, and so many others in
@ODID_QEH
and beyond for my application!
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Of course, I have voted YES on
@ucu
’s ballot. Fingers crossed that
@OxfordUCU
meets the threshold this time!
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Dhauladhar mountains at sunset.
Being in Himachal feels (quite literally) like a breath of fresh air. Painful reminder that Delhi, despite all my fondness for the city, feels like a gas chamber during the winter months.
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The ONLY op-ed worth reading on the Bhoomipujan in Ayodhya is this brilliant piece by Mukul Kesavan:
Blaming “deracinated liberals” for the death of Indian secularism willfully ignores the decades of groundwork done by the Sangh Parivar.
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Excited to be headed to Brussels for a promising workshop on ‘Quantified Futures’.
Any recommendations for things to do/see/eat while in BXL? 🇧🇪
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On one of the most shameful days to be an Indian, 3 videos I'd recommend to everyone:
1. Newstrack's footage of the 1992 demolition:
2. Testimony of the reporters at Ayodhya:
3. Patwardhan's Ram Ke Naam:
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Modi and Adani after Rahul Gandhi’s press conference yesterday.
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Have ZERO patience for the pro-monarchist argument that goes: “At least we won’t end up with a Theresa May or a BoJo as the head of state!”.
Trading the uncertainty of elections for the certainty of inherited privilege is plainly anti-democratic. We need no benevolent dictator.
Italy & Germany don’t have directly elected President. Meanwhile Michael Higgins, Ireland’s President, is arguably most popular person in country.
Stephen Fry is arguing against *any* form of democracy. Why wouldn’t this logic apply to hereditary MPs too?
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Trying to apply for a Schengen visa to attend 2 academic workshops.
But it is an absolute nightmare to use TLS Contact to book appointments. Website is riddled with technical glitches. No reply to emails. Helpline utterly unhelpful.
@ConsulFranceUK
@FranceintheUK
- any help?
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Friends in Oxford!
Make sure you check out this fascinating film produced by my good friends Ikuno & Garima on the everyday life of the Indian bureaucracy.
Tomorrow - 5:30pm - St Antony’s College!
📽️Screening📽️
Monday Tuesday Thursday is a nonfiction film by DPhils Ikuno Naka & Garima Jaju, capturing the daily hustle within a small reception room of a much larger bureaucratic government office in New Delhi, India.
⏲️18 Feb, 5:30📌
@StAntsCollege
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