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I wrote a long-read for the good people over at
@ppesydney
- on the current interregnum, conjunctural analysis, and southern authoritarian populism.
Thanks to
@AdamDavidMorton
for the space!
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Thatโs right. You managed to spoil it all on your own.
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Shashi, my dude, where to begin with you โฆ
Only last week you were sending birthday wishes to one of the chief architects of this politics.
This is disgraceful.
@salman7khurshid
is a statesman who has done India proud in international forums &always articulated a moderate, centrist, inclusive vision of the country domestically. The mounting levels of intolerance in our politics should be denounced by those in power.
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For the past 4 hours, I've been writing a piece on the CAA protests + the Hindu nationalist statecraft that the protests respond to.
During that time, I've had to update the death toll no less than three times - just now to include an 8-year-old child.
That's Modi's India.
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Charging truth-tellers with sedition is part and parcel of the Hindu nationalist statecraft that is dimming the lights of democracy in India.
More power to
@Shehla_Rashid
and all others who raise their voice in dissent against Modi 2.0!
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Our students doing us proud at UP โ๐ผโ๐ผ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ
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To those who voice their concern about violence against property during the
#CAAProtests
- have you also voiced your concern when Muslims and Dalits have been lynched on the streets these past five years?
If the answer is no, that means it's shut-the-fuck-up time for you now.
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Modi presided over murder in Gujarat in 2002.
Twenty years later heโs doing the same thing at a national scale.
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Abhijit, my dude - I donโt know what they taught you at Harvard when you did your doctorate, but building toilets doesnโt qualify as left of centre welfare politics.
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, speaking at the
#ExpressAdda
, said PM Modi appeared to be Left of Centre in his economic approach towards the nation.
Watch the full video here:
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Hey
@RutgersU
- why would you want to disgrace yourself by hosting a known islamophobe and repugnant sexist such as Vivek Agnihotri? Rescind the invite now!
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[Thread/1] Tomorrow it'll be 10 years since a white supremacist terrorist killed 77 people in Norway (mostly youth) in a direct attack on the labor movement.
I thought I'd tell the story of this piece from 2013 and the reaction it evoked ...
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This echoes, more than anything else in recent memory, how Hindu nationalist goons were allowed to rampage across Jawaharlal Nehru University in early 2020, attacking activists challenging anti-Muslim citizenship laws in India.
It is certainly equally as shameful.
UCLA sounds even worse than Columbia: riot cops allowed Zionists to continue attacking the encampment before moving in to
@shut
it down: โAnanya Roy, a professor of urban planning, social welfare and geography, condemned UCLAโs lack of response to the โฆ 1/
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Iโve found this little fact to be the most effective way to teach a classroom of students about how our everyday worlds are deeply shaped by the collective action of social movements from below, in ways that make those worlds better and more livable.
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Gramsci in 1930. Still abundantly true today.
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Wondering what to do to show solidarity with those under attack by Hindu nationalist brownshirts at JNU?
Here you go ๐๐ป
#StayStrongJNU
#SOSJNU
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In which the Supreme Court of India once again demonstrstes that it is fully aligned with the BJP government and its Hindu nationalist statecraft.
@iumlofficial
@MahuaMoitra
@Jairam_Ramesh
@asadowaisi
@tnprathapan
@maiamofficial
@ikamalhaasan
@harsh_mander
SC refuses to stay the
#CitizenshipAmendmentAct
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1/2) Two things I know about research ethics.
1) You practice full disclosure - itโs not your prerogative to withhold, itโs the right of those who you research to know.
2) You should always be mindful of the porous boundaries between your research, your personal life, and โฆ
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Ashoka, or, as I call it, New England in Sonipat.
I'm slightly confused / alarmed at the make up of the faculty of Philosophy Dept at Ashoka Univ. - In India.
Can someone explain please?
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Hey
@TheNewSchool
- you should know that when I get my honorarium for the talk I gave to your wonderful staff in October, itโs going straight to their strike fund.
Shame on you.
As announced on Monday, we have made the difficult decision to stop paying wages and premiums for healthcare benefits for employees who are striking. Up to this point, we have continued to compensate our faculty and staff who have chosen to exercise their right to strike.
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The racism of Sanghi trolls is pathetically despicable - โSitting in an African jungle you cannot judge all this,โ one particularly cretinous specimen tells me.
Well, if nothing else, the cretinous specimen confirmed all I know about the nature of Hindu nationalism.
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"The radicalisation of the majority community has seeped into society and organs of the state and is being seen as essential to protect the motherland from the "traitors"."
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I wasn't afraid. I took a stand in Baton Rouge because enough is enough | Ieshia Evans
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So just to be clear, hereโs Walter Mignolo gushingly blurbing the book of a rabid Islamophobe.
Things are not well in the lands of decoloniality.
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My piece for Elections With EPW
@qudsiya_Ah
@SVRuparelia
@PoMoGandhi
@sanjaygreddy
@ProfSrilaRoy
@kavita_krishnan
@jigneshmevani80
@nandinisundar
@Shehla_Rashid
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I see Uday Chandra is out and about with slanderous lies about me, my personal life and my work.
I trust that decent people in the field recognize this for what it is - slander.
And I expect those decent people to recognize when enough is enough.
Thatโs all I have to say.
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Thread!
Shame on
@TOIIndiaNews
for their murderous defamation of
@Shehla_Rashid
- one of Indiaโs bravest and strongest voices for justice and democracy.
This is not art or entertainment. This is intimidation. And it tells us everything we need to know about the sanghi media!
Fascinating. Agent Rana, TOI's serialised graphic novel tinged with soft-porn now features an (anti-) National University with a firebrand female student leader about to be funded by an Enemy Agent and fake currency.
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This and the rejection of ceasefire all in one day should make it so abundantly clear that it was never about the hostages - it was always about the foundational genocidal impulse of the Israeli state.
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My take: The making of the Hindu nation will spell the end of Indian democracy.
@ProfSrilaRoy
@NitashaKaul
@PoMoGandhi
@sthembete
@nandinisundar
@kavita_krishnan
@Shehla_Rashid
@RanaAyyub
@suchitrav
@bhakti_shringa
@qudsiya_Ah
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At this point, the only thing that can compete with the consistency of the lying is the obviousness of the lying.
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Colleagues at JNU/the Indian academy: An open letter of solidarity from scholars at Norwegian universities!
@Jayati1609
@hashiyaarai
@Shehla_Rashid
@kavita_krishnan
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Whenever I read Jacobin, Iโm always surprised at how the Nordic countries appear as peasant and workersโ republics in the mindsโ eye of the American left.
Speaking from the point of view of a Norwegian Marxist - you couldโve fooled me!
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Letโs amplify this: Any left platform that fails to address the crisis in India now is a left outlet that doesnโt know its purpose.
@DissentMag
@ROAR_Magazine
@RedPeppermag
@LeftForum
@viewpointmag
@nplusonemag
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Proofs are in โ๏ธ๐๐โ๏ธ๐
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Today in pandemic news:
Corporate tycoon who rents mansion in Mayfair, London for 69,000 dollars a week lowers price of vaccine by 1.34 dollars, while several thousand of his fellow citizens die every day from Covid infections.
As a philanthropic gesture on behalf of
@SerumInstIndia
, I hereby reduce the price to the states from Rs.400 to Rs.300 per dose, effective immediately; this will save thousands of crores of state funds going forward. This will enable more vaccinations and save countless lives.
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Best summary of Vijay Prashad's bankrupt politics I've seen so far.
Just to add that its lineage stretches back to his hand-wringing and apologism for the CPM's Nandigram massacre in West Bengal in 2007.
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It's standard practice in international media to keep the public informed about the health status of those who govern them. The current hissy fit against
@thewire_in
is nothing but yet another natak to discredit those who produce the very finest of journalism in India today.
Are you one of those who think a finance minister's health is purely his private concern even if it means he will not finalise and present the budget? Please read
@bainjal
's succinct piece below on how democracies and a free media deal with the issue
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Glad tidings, folks. I've been appointed as the director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa
@UPTuks
I'm very excited about building a dynamic new hub for Asian studies at UP over the coming years.
There's going to be lots of cool stuff happening - watch this space!
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A thread-digest of some nuggets from this perceptive piece by Sudha Pai
@srilaroy
@PoMoGandhi
@alpashah001
@JensLerche
@PKashwan
@anandpvaidya
@MsAMR25
@kfroystad
@jigneshmevani80
@kavita_krishnan
@Shehla_Rashid
Wire
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Thereโs a Norwegian watching a Hindi movie on the bus Iโm on and that Norwegian is not me and I feel very confused.
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I swear, rehabilitating Vajpayee is a whole writing and publishing industry unto itself by now.
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One thing I've learnt about academics in recent years - their capacity for grandstanding on abstract moral issues is only matched by their utter indifference to the moral wrongs being committed right under their noses.
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Today the brilliant, brave, badass, and breathtakingly beautiful
@profsrilaroy
- the love of my life - turns 40.
"aur kyฤ dekhne ko baaqฤซ hai
aap se dil lagฤke dekh liyฤ"
Join me, won't you, in wishing her the best of bestest happy birthdays โค๏ธ
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Happiest 43rd around the sun to my โ๏ธ
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One Irfan Habib is worth all the historians who have stayed quiet about CAA/NRC put together.
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How's about they pay some fucking taxes instead?
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and Bill Gates to fund $25M coronavirus research group
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PSA: It's now ...
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Sanghi in my Twitter-feed asks me to clarify whose agent I am.
Well, obviously I am an agent of full luxury communism with bells on it and a cherry on top.
Foreign hand too.
@PoMoGandhi
@srilaroy
@PKashwan
@Shehla_Rashid
@alpashah001
@kavita_krishnan
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Hereโs one for the dude-bros who are spectacularly slow on the uptake.
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The anti-Muslim pogroms happening in Tripura are an index of just how much the Modi regime relies on violence to make its Hindu Rashtra.
The absence of public order intervention isnโt the state not working - itโs the state at work.
Five days of riots by Hindutva groups in Tripura. From 6 to now 12 mosques in five districts have been vandalized in the last five days.
The police are watching from the sidelines. Is Tripura not worth the Home Ministry's protection? +++
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2/2) spaces of power - and if youโre too close to certain spaces of power, certain research sites are simply off limits.
It isnโt rocket science.
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Excellent essay on the reactionary uses of decolonial frames in Hindutva historiography.
(Also: IR scholars, take note โฆ)
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Please pardon the Hindi imposition but south India meri jaan! โค๏ธ
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Hello again โฆ
@BearGrylls
โฉ - this is just to inform you that yesterday, followers of โฆ
@narendramodi
โฉ, whom you hobnob with on your show, burnt a young Muslim boy to death.
Care to comment?
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It's been almost 9 years since I started researching this project. Finally the book is out!
Check it out here:
Huge kudos to
@qudsiya_Ah
and colleagues
@cambridgeindia
for being such a brilliant editorial team, and to everyone who helped along the way!
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"This is the real Indian political economy, with statistics and horrifying facts suppressed, ignored by the ruling elite."
Development as mirage in Modi's India.
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Admirable swagger from veteran journalist
@paranjoygt
after ten hours of police questioning - more power to him ๐๐ปโ๐ผ
#NewsClickRaids
| Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was questioned for nearly 10 hours. He says he was questioned on whether he covered Delhi riots and farmers' protest.
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Reading an article on decolonization by an ๐บ๐ธ scholar, who fails to engage with the work of even 1 non-๐บ๐ธ scholar.
Even though many non-๐บ๐ธ scholars have made the argument he makes way before he did.
Why is it that ๐บ๐ธ scholars don't read/engage beyond the borders they inhabit?
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Alternatively:
- More than 60% of Indiaโs population lives on less than 3.10 dollars per day.
- India has 46.6 million stunted children (more than any other country in the world) and is ranked 103 among 119 countries on the global hunger index.
- 45 farmers commit suicide ...
Google's CEO is Indian
Nokia's CEO is Indian
Adobe's CEO is Indian
Amazon's BOD is Indian
MasterCard's CEO is Indian
Microsoft's CEO is Indian
Nasa has 58% Indian employees
In the next few years, India will be the World's IT hub
(Found on LinkedIn)
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This is definitely going into my social theory course outline next year.
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In which the indomitable Niraja Jayal lays out why the struggle has to be for both formal (civil/political) AND substantive (social) citizenship.
Citizenship has at least two aspects: one formal & one substantive. Under this process being envisaged, those who lack many substantive benefits of citizenship, will lose their formal status as citizens too: Prof Niraja Jayal, one of Indiaโs foremost scholars on Citizenship ๐๐พ
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I used to think that the most stupid โfake Asiaโ thing Iโd ever seen on film was โAfghanโ terrorists chatting away in Hindi in Iron Man 1.
Then I watched Mission Impossible 5, where Norwegian fjords are supposed to be
#Kashmir
.
@Shehla_Rashid
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If there are any lefty academics out there in two minds about pirated books, let me remind you that piracy, historically, was a form of resistance to imperial dispossession & capitalist property relations.
(You can get Rediker + Linebaugh from Libgen and read up on this.)
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Make Sci-Hub Great Again -- please!
(Because Sci-Hub and other pirate sites are some of the most fundamental research tools I have at my disposal.)
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Some fitting responses here to
@TOIIndiaNews
and their disgusting attempt to pass of incitement to violence as entertainment.
How disgraceful to claim free speech for acts of hatred!
@Shehla_Rashid
@kavita_krishnan
@PoMoGandhi
@nandinisundar
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So, I've signed up with the good people
@AnthemPress
to write the book project below.
It'll be a short but hopefully useful book, written against forgetting - and out in November if all goes to plan.
And I'll pester you all with crowdsourcing queries as I write.
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Article alert! ๐ค
@K_Bo_Nielsen
,
@anandpvaidya
& I have a new essay out in the current issue of CSSAAME, on the dialectics of law, social movements, and state formation across the longue durรฉe of Indian democracy.
(Feel free to DM for a PDF)
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107 out of 121 countries.
Outperformed by all South Asian countries other than Afghanistan.
Highest child wasting rate in the world.
And home to the worldโs second richest man and 165 other dollar billionaires.
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The vikas purush in Delhi wants Kerala to drown.
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My best build yet ๐จ๐ช๐๐
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In the context of Ranajit Guhaโs passing, sharing my short entry on his life and work from The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism.
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Look what I did!
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1/n) So apparently the withdrawal of the Delhi riots book (the only correct course of action, IMO) will only give ammo to right-wing demands for withdrawals of books.
Let me tell you - they don't even need that ammo, because Indian publishers are already self-censoring ...
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Iโve seen the apology, and let me be clear, itโs not accepted.
Firstly, because some things are unforgivable.
Secondly, because he has SO much more to apologize for.
And thirdly, because I got a similar apology ten years ago, only to see an immediate resumption of the โฆ
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This young Muslim woman being hounded by a gang of Hindu nationalist thugs is the current regime, and the social order that it is making, in repugnant nutshell.
Her courage in the face of this supremacist brutality is the only sliver of hope there is.
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[11] ... At the core of the refusal to acknowledge the meaning of all this, I think, stands the entitled claim to white innocence - a claim that is unshaken even by the most heinous of acts.
Unless and until that claim is tossed on the dustbin of history, the issues ...
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โDesire for status is one reason why academic men slip so readily into unintelligibility.โ
C. Wright Mills
#AcWri
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Sociology at its best, this. This statue goes straight on my 101 syllabus for next year!
I really love this "Public Figures" statue by Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
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Yesterday, the good news came in that I've been awarded a grant by the
@iNIHSS
to pursue my research on "Growth, Inequality and Protest in a Rising South" - a project that seeks to develop a new political economy of global development.
Can't wait to get started!
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[12] ... I wrote about in 2013 will continue to haunt us.
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Check out the Peoples Archive of the Farmers Protest - an amazing resource for anyone interested in the 2020-2021 farmers protests in India!
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Sonepat is the new East Coast.
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Sanghis on Twitter are of course lauding the turnout in Kashmir precisely because they are ignorant cretins who are most likely unaware that these were indirect elections.
This guy though ๐ is just a malevolent liar.
(Ok, I'm being too kind to Sanghis, but it's Friday.)
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No acche din for agricultural workers in Vibrant Gujarat.
@PoMoGandhi
@JensLerche
@alpashah001
@Shehla_Rashid
@PKashwan
#Modi
#India
#Gujarat
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In case you're wondering what Modi is up to while a pandemic rips through the country - other than building temples to embody the sickening majoritarianism of his regime and his movement, and throwing dissenters in jail, that is.
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Count me in.
Both my folks left school at 16 in order to work.
I got my degrees and my PhD thanks to free public higher education - and a shit-ton of emotional support from my parents.
Ok, fess up, everyone. Which PhDs out in
#AcademicTwitter
have parents without any college degrees at all? ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
#firstgen
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Hard to think of a more wrongheaded line to pursue for a left-wing party in the 21st century. Like, how determined are they in their pursuit of utter irrelevance!?
We remember one of the greatest Communist leader & revolutionary, Comrade Joseph
#Stalin
on his death anniversary today. The real homage to Stalin is reiterating our vow to continue in the path of struggle for a world free from injustice, discrimination & inequality.
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I see Tulsi Gabbard is blaming Muslims for instigating the 2002 Gujarat riots.
All you lefty Tulsi-fanboys - you must be proud, no?
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So Tory MPs are now using the vocabulary of the white supremacist terrorist who killed 77 people in Oslo in 2011.
True colors, folks, true colors โฆ
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At 45, NOTHING is quite as gratifying as walking around a university building looking lost and having someone ask: โAre you looking for one of your lecturers?โ
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If you find the politics of a Trump or a Johnson appalling, you should be absolutely fucking outraged by the Hindu nationalist statecraft of the Modi regime - which I'd by far the most dangerously effective authoritarian populist force in the world today.
#CitizenshipAct
: Delhi police storm into
#JamiaMilia
campus, fire tear gas inside, students trapped
#JamiaProtest
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Eddie Webster, who sadly passed away today, was many things: intellectual giant, institution-builder, and committed socialist.
He was also very kind to younger scholars, and showed his kindness through interest in and engagement with their work.
Iโll miss him. Go well, friend.
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[4] ... deeply embedded racism in its public sphere and public culture.
And then the shit hit the fan. The fact that a Norwegian commentator had criticized his country's public culture in an international newspaper was the main story on the 7 o'clock news two days running ...
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One thing, though, about the
#Agnipath
protests is that, much like the railway jobs protests earlier this year, they suggest that there is a yawning gap between the aspirations of many young Indians and the unicorn start-ups that are littered all across Modi's speeches.
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Making it to half-ninety in the bestest of ways, thanks to the wonderful
@ProfSrilaRoy
โค๏ธ
A perfect celebration for a middle aged bougie Marxist.
Happy birthday my darling,
@alfgunvald
๐
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[8] ... for a couple of weeks.
My department had to lock its doors and my lectures were canceled. I was put on sick leave.
Since then, the issues I pointed out in my op-ed have only become more pronounced, with white supremacist beliefs and racist rhetoric becoming more ...
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Over the next 4 weeks, I'll put together a series of 4-5 mini-lectures (25 mins) on
#acwri
writing as narrated PPTs, covering structure, argument, research skills, referencing, & writing style for 1st year students.
Happy to share if you reckon it might be useful for students.
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I talked to eNCA about the fact that India's C19 crisis is a product of the politics of the Modi government.
The coronavirus disaster in India is a politically engineered tragedy, that's according to Sociology Professor Alf Gunvald Nilsen, of the University of Pretoria. In an article, Nilsen says COVID-19 in India was mismanaged and manipulated for political gain from the beginning.
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