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Queer Historian 🏳️‍🌈|PhD @Columbia |Assistant Professor @NLSIUofficial Material Culture, Early Modern World, Public History

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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
Is there an essay that you would recommend to any undergrad majoring in History or those interested in Historical research? Just one, if you had to! I’ll pick Saidiya Hartman’s “Venus in Two Acts”. How about you?
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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#TMC all set to send 9 women elected representatives to the Parliament. They fielded 12 women candidates. West Bengal has around 49% women voters and the voter turnout was the highest in the country. WB is also ruled by only woman CM. There is a LOT to celebrate here.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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Indians quoting Faiz to express their solidarity for the students’ revolution in Bangladesh are woefully ignorant of the sea of Bangla revolutionary literature, especially songs. Bangla is a language of revolution!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
Historian David Ludden there in the human chain who was arrested soon after. He is in his 80s if I am not mistaken. Yes, students are under our care. Protect them from the excesses of the admin.
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Read Abolish Rent
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NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
I guess it is a good hour to share that I will join @NLSIUofficial as an Assistant Professor in Social Sciences. Excited to begin a new chapter in a new city! Bangalore, here’s hoping we will vibe :)
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
Mallikarjun Kharge brutally roasting VP Dhankar on his varna casteist thinking! Brilliant stuff. We need more of this.
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VP Dhankar: Jairam Ramesh is so intelligent, talented, and gifted that you should immediately take the place of Kharge! *Kharge Sahab refutes back*: Don't bring that varnashram! I think you still have that Varna Caste System in your mind. 🔥🔥🔥🤣 Brutally Slayed!
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Prof. Allison Busch’s pathbreaking research on Hindi literature in the Mughal court broke multiple stereotypes nurtured by nationalist and postcolonial histories of Hindi. Remembering Allison (my advisor) on this occasion of Hindi Diwas. Forever grateful to be her student.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
11 months
The first piece of advice I got while finishing my PhD and starting a job is that you need to build a life (alongside) independent of institutions. I can’t emphasise how wise the words were. Hopefully, I will be able to do that
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
Why aren’t we talking abt suicide amongst LGBTQ+ persons in India?A boy took his life bcz he was abandoned by his school, teachers, and friends. Why shouldn’t this make us question the institutions we build, networks of hatred we perpetuate, and cultures of alienation we foster?
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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Teaching Premodern South Asia (History 1) next trimester. Some of my favourite lectures are part of this Compulsory Core. We begin with Early India and end with the Mughals in the Seventeenth Century.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
It’s time that academics acknowledge and study the anti-CAA movements in Bangla, Tamizh, Marathi and several other regional languages too. The narrative needs a different perspective, not centred in Delhi or Shaheen Bagh.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
As a queer person and a first gen PhD I can say that good mentorship played a big role in my academic career. Shout out to all of us who keep our hours flexible. Time is a precious gift that we can give to our students. And, I hope we are doing that well.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
10 months
The toughest part of moving in to a new city is about making friends. You can’t try too hard, you will look desperate. You can’t sit at home because you won’t be trying enough. You can’t be the one always making plans because you will be judged. And, you can’t live alone either!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
There are days when I can’t do a thing. I can’t read or write. I can’t cook or run. I can’t watch a movie or talk to a friend. I am unproductive. I fall behind. Perhaps, I waste precious time. But, I need to shut down in order to be sane again! Loneliness wears you out.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
9 months
I know i post a lot about loneliness, being single through 30s, losing hope in relationships, and struggling to make friends in a new city despite knowing I am difficult. But, I wish i could tell how it feels to be lonely and juggling your first job and your life. Phew.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Humbly suggest that the organisers reflect on the politics of representation of a symposium that has 12 men, 3 women, no Dalit scholar, and one Muslim scholar. Guha’s work is still tremendously relevant but this does not seem a proper way of revisiting.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Why did I sign up to date/fall for men?! I think I regret this more than choosing to do a PhD in Humanities. And, that says a lot.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
29 days
I was in 9th standard when I read an exquisite story about border crossers in the Rann of Kutch. It made me think about borderlands as a distinct place, always made in difference. An early lesson that I remain indebted to. Rest in power, Keki N. Daruwalla.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 month
Earlier this year my students read this brilliant essay on writing the city by Manan Ahmed Asif. Some of you might have read it, sharing this for the larger community of readers here! It’s beautiful meditation on method.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
My research always takes me back to this brilliant book! ❤️
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What’s a book you keep going back to?
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
21 days
Casteist Savarna losers attacking Prof. Shailaja Paik after her spectacular McArthur win (read the comments)! Try building a career like hers in global academia before you say a word about her. She is a trailblazer. Her win is epic🔥
@timesofindia
The Times Of India
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Historian and a professor at University of Cincinnati, Shailaja Paik has received a $800,000 "genius" grant from Mc Arthur Foundation for writing about challenges faced by the Dalit women in the country. Details here:
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@GhoshSamyak
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2 years
Here’s your newly minted Dr. matching lavender nail polish with lavender cupcake. Thanks to my wonderful mentor @sepoy and my friends @Bedatri @popeyed @KarimMaged @Shaunnaroder @prateekpaul7 and @corridor_person . This feels special:))
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@GhoshSamyak
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5 months
Please try to understand the anger that pushes a woman constable to slap someone, while she is on duty! She is risking her job, her career, her reputation. She knows she will pay for this. Yet she did it. That’s how frustration against the powerful works. I hope she remains safe
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
The last TT Assistant Professor position in my field (early modern South Asian history) in the US was in early 2023. I was a finalist for the position. Since then no new search has been announced. I know many recent & superb PhDs in the area but jobs aren’t being created!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 year
Led a tremendously invigorating discussion on “eighteenth-century South Asia” this morning with 2nd Year BA LLB students @NLSIUofficial My first class as an Assistant Professor in History will always be special for the sixty students who made the gig worth it 😊😇
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Historians edition Favorite historian of all time:Natalie Davies,Partha Chatterjee,Shahid Amin Historian I dislike:Bada’uni Historian that grew on me:Spiegel Most overrated historian:Dalrymple Most underrated historian:Alessandro Portelli The GOAT(s):Ranajit Guha,Carlo Ginzburg
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 month
It’s September and if you are applying for PhD in the US then you need to reach out to the faculty right now. Don’t wait till the last minute, please. Conversations that begin early are productive. Also, this shows that you respect their time. That’s a crucial thing to remember!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
Women across West Bengal are taking to the streets in the night to demand justice wrt to the #rgkarincident Protests are being organised both in urban & semi-urban areas. The night belongs to all, fearlessly. Right to mobility is a fundamental component of urban democracy! ✊🏾
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Terrifying times: inching towards finishing your PhD while realising you are unemployed, your research isn’t cool enough for the market, and you have to feed yourself. 30s, I didn’t need you so soon :(
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
I get abused on X for my chosen pronouns (they/them). But, the reason why I identify as non-binary is my discomfort with cis-het men. Their casual jokes. Their chit-chat. Their stares. Their touch. Their confidence. I try to unlearn whatever it “takes to be a man”. Everyday!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
how do you survive in institutional environments that aren’t intellectually inspiring or rigorous but takes care of your bills?! 😢😔
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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Two lines that healed me. I took a picture so that I can read it whenever I want to :)
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
wishing you the smell of ābīr/gulāl and the heaviness engulfing your body after a long day of holi rumpus! Happy eid-e-gulal/holi/dol/phalgutsava Pictures: The Cleveland Museum of Art (1971.83).
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
11 months
Wishing my queers more smiles and happiness! Happy Pride, India 🌈🏳️‍🌈 P.S. this year was special because I walked with our amazing students. Big shout out to @NlsQueer for their spectacular turn out @NammaPride Pride March 💜🫶🏽♥️
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Glad that I had the privilege of coming out when I was 26. This picture drawn by my cousin reminds me of the love, support and acceptance I have received since. It’s never an easy journey but it’s a sweet one #HappyNationalComingOutDay
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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@KunalGhoshAgain একটু চুপ থাকুন না। খামোকা পাড়ার কাকুর মতো গা-জ্বালানি কথা বলে কি লাভ। নাগরিকদের প্রতিবাদ করার অধিকার আছে। তাতে গনতন্ত্র শক্ত হয়। পারলে আপনিও যান। পাশে দাঁড়ান। গোটা ব্যাপারটায় আমরা-ওরা না করে একবার অন্তত সচেতন রাজনৈতিকের মতো আচরন করুন।
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Successfully defended and submitted my PhD dissertation. Also, wrote 80,000+ words between May and September. I don’t think I will ever do anything as impossible as that.
@WeSoUnderRated
Under Rated Society
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EVERYONE INCLUDED :: Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2022 that you’re proud of.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 year
Yesterday a queer identifying student came to meet me in my office to let me know that my presence makes a huge difference in their campus life. Apparently, their queer friends feel safe and seen around me. Couldn’t believe my ears! ☺️🏳️‍🌈✊🏾
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
Columbia students making history! Hundreds of students occupy Hamilton Hall and unfurl a banner that read Hind’s Hall, in memory of Hind Rajab, a five year old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli forces
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Hamilton Hall at Columbia University has been liberated tonight 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Now you can check out the abstract of my PhD dissertation in Academic Commons and ProQuest. Formations of the King: Politics, Pleasure, and Law in Early Eighteenth-Century Brahmaputra Valley, 1700-1750
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
Excited to be part of this volume along with some excellent scholars of premodern and modern South Asia. @BloomsburyAcad
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
In solidarity with Columbia University students who continue to resist in face of brute force by the largest police department in the world and a vicious administration out to get them. Takeaway, learn from your students! They are far more brave and courageous ✊🏾🇵🇸🍉
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@GhoshSamyak
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7 months
A friend recently told me not to skip shower and to stay hydrated even when you are in the thick of spirals, mood swings, and meltdowns. I didn’t pay much attention then but in the last few days I have realised how honest and sincere they were. It works wonders!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Another “India Studies” endowed professorship based in the US has been announced. I know a couple of new institutions in India that have a similar position. Is this Indology staging a return? How are these positions different from “South Asia/South Asian Studies”? Any thoughts 🤔
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
Please read Bangladeshi authors on the July revolution. Listen to Bangladeshi news channels. Talk to BD friends if you have. This is an opportunity to learn and understand rather than bank on what we know & critique. I know this sounds identity politics max. But, it matters.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
5 months
Posters for next trimester’s elective course/seminar @NLSIUofficial (The images used in the posters are photographs of Zarina Hashmi’s drawings, available in public domain.)
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
7 months
Loneliness is unpredictable. Sometimes a smack in your tired face right in the middle of the day. Sometimes the knots in your muscles as you drag yourself out of the bed. Or, the rushed heartbeat that ceases to calm down. Loneliness is never consistent but always cruel!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
I turned a year older this week. I’m in my mid 30s and I feel that the thing I want most is to remain single. I’m tired of dating and I’m tired of waiting. Of course I whine. And, sometimes I cry. But, I want to be the person that my mother could never be but always wanted to!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
Submitted my first TT assistant professor application this weekend while recovering from the delta. Not sure if i will be employed after my PhD, but, boy I love teaching and that’s why I am here!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
The most difficult part about completing the dissertation is keeping yourself motivated amongst rejections, failures, and hopelessness 😥
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
@AbubakrJamalSci I have nothing against Faiz or Urdu poetry. But, can’t stand people who fetishise Urdu or quote that one poem in every occasion. Bangla’s fight was against Urdu imposition/oppression. Urduwallas are too quick to forget that.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
10 months
Chuffed to teach an elective course next term @NLSIUofficial titled, “History, In the Present” on what it means to study, think, and engage with the remembered past in wake of increased misinformation and how has AI complicated public memory. Dropping posters soon. Hope it’s fun!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
5 months
I was nine when I saw him in the morning prayer line. Quietly walking towards his class. New kid. Everyone spoke about him. The girls, mostly. He topped the class that year. Then, his father got transferred. I never got to tell him that he was the first man I ever loved ♥️🏳️‍🌈🌈
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
At that point in my life when I know it’s best to hide your feelings for a person. Never let them know. Maybe even say otherwise. Faraz sahab was right. The hiding of love is love too.
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
If I had to pick one book (from my area) for a historical writing seminar then it would be this! A masterpiece in the genre. Also, the nod to Vermeer’s portraits as the inspiration tells you a lot about how historians think
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
What’s a thing that is common between Tavleen Singh, Shekhar Gupta, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Barkha Dutt? They are highly inconsistent and confused thinkers. This isn’t a bad thing but it makes us realise we should not take them seriously
@tavleen_singh
Tavleen Singh
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The most fundamental change that has happened in India in ten years of Modi’s rule is that a process of decolonisation has taken place. When Indians say we are proud to be Indian for the first time it’s this they mean.
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Finally watched PS 1&2. Yes, better late than never. Despite all the criticism, I like it more than all of the Bhansali historical movies. Also, the films belong to Aishwarya Rai Bacchan & Vikram. Nandini is the soul of PS & Aditya it’s beating heart!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
You can’t use Bengalis to mean Calcutta elites. Bengali history is not confined to twentieth-century Calcutta. Look beyond. Look around. Bengalis are a transnational/transregional community. And, surely they will write about other Bengalis. You can’t “ban” or silence them.
@manujosephsan
Manu Joseph
2 months
When I was editor of Open I banned two things: 1) Exclamation marks 2) Bengalis writing about other Bengalis
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
At this point, I am no more excited about the PhD, job applications, or about changing the world. 🙏🏽
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
In a world racing towards unequal opportunities the most we can do as academics is to be generous with our time. I learnt this from the best, who opened their doors and let me in. Mentors, colleagues, friends, and lifelines. Here’s to them. And to surviving 2022!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 year
In last three months I survived break up and travails of dating in a new city. Some days were unbearable but I knew I had to pull through. Now that the first trimester of teaching is coming to an end, I know I am doing what I do best. Here’s to me being there for myself 🥂
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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As many Bengali Hindu families from erstwhile East Bengal worship the goddess Laxmi today, I remember my grandmothers. Women who crossed borders carrying nothing but traditions. In refugee homes, they worshipped the goddess with unfailing love & care. Shubho Kojagori Purnima!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
I hope Krish Ashok reads this because he has been telling his audience that non-stick (read teflon) is safe in that irritating science-bro tone!
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Barbara Oneill
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What's the best cooking pan material? .
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
10 months
Have been waiting for this! Of breathtaking scope, the book combines research in the Ottoman, Mughal, Maratha, and British archives. Look out for the delicious prose! Congratulations to my friend Rishad Choudhury for this brilliant achievement 🎉🥂
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
I grew up with labels because I was not boy enough. School was a torture. I would return home and lock myself up in my room for hours to recuperate. I still carry these trauma bonds in my personal and social life. This news and the letter broke my heart! No one deserves this
@LgbtqIndia
LGBTQ India News
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DPS Faridabad student ends life, alleges bullying over sexuality in suicide note
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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As an early career scholar, I am sceptical of contributing to yet another edited volume unless it is right up my alley. Reason, I need to protect my time and publish in prestigious peer reviewed journals! Don’t know if I am doing the right thing. Any suggestions, X acad fam?
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 years
My department denied giving me a promised TF that too in the last semester. Fighting it out with GSAS, Admin right now. Unbelievable. I have paper trail and yet they are lying. Really, MESAAS (Columbia University) this how you treat your graduate students!!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
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This is great news! In my opinion, the #INDIAAlliance will have far better opportunities as the opposition. Mobilise. Solidify. And, make inroads. Assembly elections in the next 3 yrs are crucial. Maha, UP, WB. A lot is on the cards. Picture abhi baki hai, mere dost! #Khelahobe
@Tamal0401
Tamal Saha
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“We will take appropriate steps at the appropriate time to realise the desire of the people” #INDIAAlliance after the meeting, claiming that for now they will play the role of the opposition to #NarendraModi Govt. But the catch is “appropriate time”
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Don’t know why you are surprised at the lack of concern except a perfunctory statement from Mahua Moitra wrt #rgkar She has never said anything that concerns women at large. She opposes the BJP. That’s it. I can’t imagine her as being part of a collective struggle. She can never.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
11 months
2023 has been a year of accepting what life gives. And, living with it. I still don’t know where I’m headed but if I have learnt one thing it is to not think about the destination. Live with the hope that you will reach where you belong, someday if not today!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 year
Every time I read Munis Faruqui on the Mughals and their “successors” I end up with fanboi feelings! “At Empire’s End” (in Expanding Frontiers) is by far the best piece on early 18thc South Asia! Please read and teach Faruqui if you don’t already
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Imtiaz Ali’s Chamkila is an extremely important and film. Chamkila is a strong reminder of the artist’s location in a society in grip of religious fundamentalism. It’s a brave film and asks difficult questions about art itself. I think this is Ali’s best so far. Kudos!
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
7 months
In today’s public history seminar, What kind “histories” do heritage workers, genealogists, architects, podcasters, and artists create? How can we understand their “passion” for the past as an iteration of public history knowledge? Why listen to “outsider” history makers?
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Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
6 months
This is outrageous. You can’t punish students for peacefully protesting against a genocide that has been going for 200+ days and then claim to be beacons of “academic freedom”.
@wawog_now
Writers Against the War on Gaza
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@Princeton Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the @Princeton campus, thereby preventing them from finishing their degrees.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
5 months
As I complete a year of teaching as an Assistant Professor I am grateful to students & colleagues for giving me the space to learn and grow. Despite hurdles, I feel every class has taught me to be a kinder teacher. To listen and to adapt. It’s a gift I will always cherish 😇🙏🏽
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
9 months
A lot in store for next term! I’ll be teaching a seminar that I wanted to since joining @NLSIUofficial Thanks to my mentor Manan Ahmed for provocations to think about premodern historical narratives in the present and to my colleague @PostitAcademic for the encouragement 🙂😇
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
Case for Objects | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic This is a brilliant article on teaching material culture/object history. Definitely using this for my seminar on “Objects-History”. ⁦ @AHAhistorians
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Sad Historian an exciting read on the historian's method in wake of history's turn towards visual materials/visuality
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 month
You can’t stand in a classroom and lecture about ideas that you don’t believe in. You can’t talk about history as if it has nothing to do with who you are & where you are. Talking about history can get intimate. And, right now very difficult as well. Hope we are doing it well!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
10 months
Halfway into the term and I am surprised that the students are engaging, enjoying, and learning. And, rarely do they miss lectures. I know some of us think teaching isn’t the most important thing we do. But, I would rather spend time in the classroom than do other things!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Here to remind you of the scene from Modern Love S1 where Lexie finally comes out to her colleague as bipolar and her colleague cancels a work meeting to have lunch with her. May many such kind gestures take you through 2023! Happy New Year 🥳
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
7 months
PhD rejections: Arizona State University University of Chicago PhD acceptances: University of Texas at Austin Columbia University (Didn’t have money to apply to more than four places 😬🤣) 9 years later I’m a procrastinator. Lol.
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Eman Abdelhadi
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
5 months
Rahul Gandhi says the people of India have fought to save the Constitution at the Congress press conference 🔥🔥❤️❤️
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
I miss my advisor Allison Busch these days more than ever before. I wish she was here to read my PhD dissertation 🥺
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
This is misleading! West Bengali liberals can say whatever nonsense they want. But, the students have asserted themselves as muktijoddhas in the present. The students and the people won. Acknowledge it before you jump to conclusions!
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Agnivo Niyogi (অগ্নিভ নিয়োগী)
3 months
Muktijoddhas gave their lives to liberate Bangladesh so that one day the daughter of the Father of the Nation would be kicked out of the country and Islamic radicals come to power
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Was re reading this lovely tweet by @dinasfoodstory and it occurred to me that “nokshi” (patterns) most likely comes to Bangla from Farsi naqsh-e keshidan (to draw lines, maps, patterns etc.). “Nokshi” (v.) was also used in the context of ornamentation of scripts by scribes.
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Dina Begum
2 years
When nokshi pitha (hand decorated rice flour pastries) reunited with mum’s shital pati/adhi - a traditional Bangladeshi handwoven mat - intrinsic to Sylhet & listed as a @UNESCO intangible cultural heritage #Bangladesh . #bangladeshifood #bangladeshiart
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
9 months
This is an excellent opportunity to focus on your writing while being in conversation with some excellent early career scholars. If you have completed your PhD and are looking for a writing position (in India) then this Postdoc is for you! Apply within 15 February, 2024.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
3 months
I have deleted the post where right wing trolls were abusing me. The threats are getting too much to handle. Some of these folks are also misrepresenting my comments. I don’t feel secure in such a situation. Therefore, I deleted my post to put an end to this madness.
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
Historians edition II who help me think:Quentin Skinner,Richard Eaton,Kumkum Chatterjee,Indrani Chatterjee help me write:Camilla Townsend,Prachi Deshpande,Manan Ahmed can’t wait to read:Durba Mitra regret reading:Venkat Dhulipala i re-read:Finbarr Flood AOMM:Daud Ali
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
Kicking off Borderlands Seminar with the screening of Haobam Paban Kumar’s film, Loktak Lairembee (Manipur, 2016). As we watch the film we will think about what it means to orient ourselves to borderlands thinking and the iteration of place from borderlands perspective
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
His first day in office 😍😍❤️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 May you emerge victorious, love!
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 months
@sarayupani They are calling her “Islamist” 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
1 year
Will remember this class forever. The first that I taught as an Assistant Professor. Students brought cake to class with their favourite thing about the lectures inscribed - history as a ground of possibilities. Immensely happy and grateful for the appreciation 😍💜☺️
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
7 months
In today’s Public History seminar we will discuss the sign of the present in studying urban development and the multiple transformations of material pasts wrt Saidlajab village and the Hauz-i-Rani reservoir in South Dilli, with Sunil Kumar as our guide :)
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
5 months
Can’t wait to see the following folks in the parliament 🔥 Rahul Gandhi Mahua Moitra Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan Supriya Sule Kanimozhi Karunanidhi Shayoni Ghosh Bimol Akoijam Gaurav Gogoi Akhilesh Yadav Saugata Roy #loksabhaelctionsResults2024
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
2 years
How did you prepare for your PhD defence? Were you anxious after distributing your dissertation? Was the anxiety related to reception of your work? Is it okay to feel inadequate after you have distributed? I’m in a flux of emotions right now :(
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
Posing in mid 30s! 🤳🏳️‍🌈🌈
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@GhoshSamyak
Samyak Ghosh (they/them)
4 months
The National Testing Agency (NTA) needs to be sacked. This is a huge scam. Education Ministry must take responsibility and resign. There’s no doubt that @NTA_Exams has failed miserably and millions of Indian citizens’ careers are at risk here.
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