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hip hop, vibes, & urban space ~ PhD candidate @UCLgeography ~ she/her ~ of Delhi but not from it ~ innocent analog spectre ~
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@RabaniGarg
and I are still looking for one more presentation to round out our panel! If you’re interested in hip hop methodologies, please do send in abstracts by November 10th!!
#AAG25
#cfp
Doing Hip Hop Ethnographies. CFP linked from
@RabaniGarg
and I for the
#AAG25
in Detroit. Abstracts due October 15th. Session will be hybrid. Excited to chat about themes of collaboration, reciprocity, digital ethnography, mobilities and more!
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As PhD application season opens up, happy to support friends from South Asia, particularly first-gen learners applying to social science/humanities programmes in the UK with general help, proof-reading, & applying for funding (particularly the UBEL-DTP). send me a DM!
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Incredibly excited to share that I will be moving to London this fall (visa processing timelines permitting) to start a fully funded PhD at
@UCLgeography
focusing on graffiti, place-making, and Delhi !!
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being an international student is so expensive. Financially — there are so many costs before you even get to university, and then the hidden costs that you only realise once you reach. And emotionally — the constant need to demonstrate success and gratitude. it’s exhausting.
As an international student in the US, the comments on the recent crowdsourcing tweet are tone-deaf and disconnected from reality. Allow me to explain why your suggestions to get a scholarship, do part-time work, or take a loan are options that are simply out of your hands.
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Friends in London, if you're interested in ethnographic fieldwork, do consider presenting at a conference
@Ty_Valiquette
and I are co-organising with the early-career network at
@UCL_IAS
in November. Full details including the
#cfp
here:
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In Delhi and doing fieldwork — which means attending concerts, meeting incredible people, and sharing really fantastic dialogue. I would love to grab a coffee (irl or virtually) with people who are fans of, performers, or writing about hip hop in india!
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I may not have an argument (yet) but at least I have plants.
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Throwback to 2013, and flying home for the holidays. I was told by the agent at the Des Moines airport that I couldn’t board my flight because i didn’t have an Indian visa. We spent 15 minutes googling & verifying that an Indian passport meant I didn’t also need an Indian visa.
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moving to London, and starting the phd has been such a strange experience. it was hard to move and tackle the anxieties that come with being back in school. a sweet note from a new friend that made me smile. community really is everything, and I’m so glad to be finding mine here.
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telling my colleagues in the uk, that no I can’t just go to a European city for the weekend … because passport, visa, waiting times, but mainly VFS, and I’m glad they have the energy to be upset, because I no longer do.
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putting together a reading list on poetry and protest — twitter friends if you wanted to recommend absolutely essential reading (particularly around South Asia), I would be most appreciative ~
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she looks sweetest, right after causing maximum chaos.
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found a book belonging to my great great grandmother, with recipes, poetry, and letters from friends ~
(there’s a recipe for nadru ki yakhni In here that I’m particularly excited to try)
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I know I use commas excessively in my writing ~ but It’s only because I appreciate the mystery and softness of a well-timed gentle pause, ,,,
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does anybody have recs for good writing cafés in Delhi? I’ve always gone to the Hauz Khas market blue tokai, but feeling like I should branch out ~
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uff did my undergrad in the US, and my masters in the UK, but still need to prove my English proficiency by paying obscene amounts of money for ridiculous tests. sos.
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such a special moment to walk this path, my nani studied here in the fifties ~ missing her a little extra today.
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surreal experience to be back at Grinnell, a space that has always offered community and home. Even more surreal to be standing in the front of the classroom.
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analog rooftop summer music scenes in dilli meri jaan 💕
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Befriended the sweetest little cat — bedeyu, in mysuru ~
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Two ish years ago, a shelter in Delhi posted a photo of ‘miss guss’ (short for gussa) an orphaned street cat found near JNU. she’s still shy, and slightly distrustful, but she’s finally grown into her ears. Uff, grateful for jamun the jinn (nicknamed so by her vet) 🧿💕
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today was the day that my mum finally broke. she called and said she’s scared, she loves me, she’s proud of me, and that if and when we make it out of this, if she’s not here, she wants me to know that. I’m enraged and terrified and exhausted and terrified –
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just let me do my charity shopping in peace, London. this is not what I wanted for my Sunday.
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I’m on the website, I guess that means the PhD is real ~
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Excited to share my review of Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home' for
@epw_in
-- a text that is so useful for thinking through gendered lives in the contemporary Indian city.
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thinking about distances today ~ between friends, family, loves, across geographies and borders. the emotions that come with navigating reunions and goodbyes, are some of the most tender and heartbreaking.
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this is such an important thread. the discourse on the crowdfunding tweet, is so horrible and really really disconnected. please consider supporting and amplifying if you can.
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“she was a revolutionary – a woman who engaged with the work of Marx and Lenin, and who brought that revolutionary praxis to her music in a way that continues to resonate with us today.”
Nina Simone, who died on this day in 2003, is often remembered for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement – but she was also a socialist who saw revolution as the path to true equality.
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siolim 🌸 starting the PhD has meant a constant pressure to be doing something intellectually useful? and feeling guilty about not. I have this lovely view that I indulged in by thinking I would commit myself to a writing retreat. but instead I will just rest and be gentle.
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we befriended the sweetest cat today. have named her mishti. 🥰🥰🥰
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excited to have shared a little glimpse of my research with colleagues at
@UCLgeography
this week. Playlist for songs referenced, and overall vibes :
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did some investigative work (aka watched the British reality tv show : the real marigold hotel), and found out re: the gorgeous hotel that we stayed at in Pondicherry — we occupied the same room as former Bond girl (the man with the golden gun) Britt Ekland. strange world.
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my first time cooking kashmiri food for friends (something so intimate, vulnerable, and joyous about sharing family recipes like this) ~ feeling very very grateful for an evening of conversation, laughter, and friendship ~ and ofc, chosen communities.
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I never want to ever hear someone say, ‘live each day like it’s your last’ ever again. Its tiring & terrifying. I just want to live like I have time. like the ones I love have time. like every ‘bye’ and ‘love you’ isn’t loaded with heaviness and fear.
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an interview spot from last week ~ thinking through where interviews take place, sounds that make their way into the recording, and the way the city shapes the ethnography.
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wrapping up fieldwork, and savouring the little bit of time left with this sweet one.
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wild to think I’m almost halfway through the PhD ~ what a journey it’s been. the friendship and collaboration through it all has been 🥰🥰🥰 sharing my website here: with a little bit more information on what I’ve been upto, and what my project hopes to be
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in the very very early stages of interviews, but aaaah so excited by the conversations and themes that are developing. Wondered if anyone had formats/ suggestions for best practices when documenting notes/ reflections from interviews? I feel like I'm not v efficient at this
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sweetest reunion with most chaotic djinn. jamun 🥺🧿
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nothing quite like the late evening and early night auto rides in Delhi that make you believe in magic and romance and poetry ✨
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Doing Hip Hop Ethnographies. CFP linked from
@RabaniGarg
and I for the
#AAG25
in Detroit. Abstracts due October 15th. Session will be hybrid. Excited to chat about themes of collaboration, reciprocity, digital ethnography, mobilities and more!
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my first time back in America since 2017, and I’m in Nashville — a strange, confusing, but wonderful city.
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so grateful to everyone who has made time to speak with me and share their experiences and their music since the time that I started my fieldwork. this is such an exciting moment to be doing hip hop research in India, and I really feel the expansiveness and community.
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super excited to be presenting on ongoing research, and thinking through hip hop ethnography as method. Big thanks to
@saeedahmad04
for inviting me to this.
As part of the course, The Built Environment and its Histories, JSAA welcomes Sarojini Atal Sapru to discuss her work on gender, space, and hip-hop in Delhi.
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a sweet gift welcoming me back into our shared office space. so grateful for friends and intellectual companions who make the PhD less lonely 💕
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It’s national pet day !
(not that I needed an excuse to post Jamun content)
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the silence of international development orgs with programmes/offices/ employees/volunteers in India, is truly deafening.
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twitter friends -- does anyone know where/how I could access the documentary, 'gali'? I've looked in all the usual places, but don't seem to be having any luck. Any help most appreciated!
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favourite part of Delhi 💕 Jamun the djinn (slowly accepting me again).
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three years from my first visit to Bangalore, I finallllly made it to
@ChampacaBooks
and it was magic ✨
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snail mail 🐌 I found a box of postcards in my dadi’s things ~ letters that my dad sent her from his travels while he was a student. sending my own slow correspondence, and wish you were here messages.
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ottolenghi inspired picnic with friends ~ (in which the London sun makes a rare but welcome cameo)
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I learnt many useful things at grinnell. But also, living in small town iowa taught me how to chit-chat and make small talk. I don’t acknowledge often enough how useful this iowa life skill is.
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15 mins into being in New York, and I bumped into a dear dear dear friend from college I haven’t seen since 2017. my heart is so so so full. processing and crying 🥰 Grinnell was so small and strange and far away, but it really meant so much in terms of community.
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just overheard my dad try to explain my research topic to another uncle, and — sos.
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uff, my entire timeline is filled with photos of delhi winter ~ and I’m so so so jealous. excited to be going home in a week ~ friends if you have any fun suggestions/ recs for things and events on in the city, please please please share!
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“We give this country food and we get tear gas and water cannons in return.”
'Repeal the 3 farm laws or we are staying here until death arrives'.
At the
#FarmersProtest
sites in Singhu and Burari, protestors in makeshift camps prepare for the long night and fight ahead in a spirit of camaraderie and renewed resolve.
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took myself on vacation to celebrate submitting something big. wandered slowly, ate the most vibrant vegetables, saw art (on the streets and in museums), drank delicious wine, listened to soulful music, and reminded myself to move gently through time and space.
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I think about this question often
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I just got called out for overusing (read misusing) commas. I like to think of commas as soft pauses, and, I, like, the, idea, of, my, words, pausing, softly,
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he is watching / save this country
seen near hauzkhas
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painted a little something today, but jamun seems to have claimed it.
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“Sarojini studies borders and migration, but not the physical ones, the imaginary ones are real too” … “and graffiti”
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I really don’t know how to meet my deadlines, and show up to work meetings and pretend that I have things under control right now. I don’t. a lot of us don’t. and it’s cruel to expect us to.
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evening djinn time
wrapping up fieldwork, and savouring the little bit of time left with this sweet one.
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starting the process of saying goodbye to our apartment, and feeling so overwhelmed by the life and community that
@mariam97cherian
and I built and nurtured in this space ~ sharing a sunny photo from one of our first weekends here, when we still hadn’t _quite_ moved in.
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trying to incorporate sounds in my writing by including ‘recommended playlists’ at the start of every piece. Wondering if any one else has suggestions for how to bring sound into essays?
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had such an inspiring field-work day today listening, walking, exploring -- mapping the city through sounds.
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morning walks ~ Goa in the monsoon is truly gorgeous.
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In which Jamun and I spent the morning playing fetch with a paper straw 🥺
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@rhoehan11
lol read the thread for why I said this. the opportunities are not the same. often because of a lack of funding - precarious funding environment- particularly in the humanities, and a terrifying political climate including censorship, as well as fewer opportunities after.
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truly one of the shambliest moments I’ve ever been part of.
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stayed up late last night reading a gorgeous book that made me cry in all the best ways ~ sad that I stopped reading non-academic books when I started grad school, and hoping to get back into this ~
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कोरोना के लिए मोदी ट्रम्प ज़िम्मेदार।
Seen near hauzkhas
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aaah, the visa's here, and it finally feels ... real? Friends in London, make plans with me!
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just thinking about how a lot of my fieldwork is attending cool music gigs in Delhi, and 🥰🥰🥰
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a little extra grateful today, for this sweet lil bb 🌸
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