Program Director of MA Anthropology, book award winner @nwsa Everyday Sustainability @SUNYPress. scholar of gender-labor-dev doing #foodstudies. love Darjeeling
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Thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this 2 year collaboration with @deyspecial & @sohni_c … and this is def a high point of being on Twitter and beginning collabs here …hope this provides food for thought for many ..’ore to come 🤞🏾🤞🏾😊🙏🏾🙏🏾@DollyKikon @AnnaRGuevarra @MeganMoodie10
@profdebsen @sohni_c and I give you our feminist collaboration Gastrofeminism just published in a special section of @Gastronomica .
Link to full issue online.ucpress.edu/gastronom…. Thank you to the editorial collective of @Gastronomica and all the contributors
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And Stacey Abrams, we could not have this victory in Georgia tonight without your tireless work in making voting fair and accessible to everyone. Your own campaign laid the groundwork for Keisha Lance Bottoms! Congrats Georgia! Ya'll DID THAT!
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In "Up Against the Archive," edited by Antoinette Burton, scholars experiment with anti-imperial forms of writing history, attending to archival silences and reassessing traditional disciplinary modes and forms. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/SZFDCMy
ALT Cover of Up Against the Archive: Experiments in Writing British Empire History Otherwise by Antoinette Burton. The cover resembles a notebook, with the spine in brown and the cover in textured teal that has faint writings with map-like markings and circles. The title is in large white serif text across the upper half. The subtitle is centered in smaller white text, with the editor's name at the bottom in white, small, capitalized text.
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Call for Papers
Climate Change, Urban Transformation, and Informal Workers in Indian Cities
📍 Bengaluru | 19–20 Nov 2026
✈️ Travel & accommodation support available
📝 Abstract deadline: 19 June 2026
More details: tsu.ox.ac.uk/event/call-pape…
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As Persia is at War, here are some common Bengali words which have a Persian origin-
- আয়না (ayna) — mirror (from Persian آینه āynah)
- কাগজ (kagôj) — paper (from Persian کاغذ kāghaz)
- দোকান (dokan) — shop/store (from Persian دکان dukān)
- বাগান (bagan) — garden (from Persian باغبان bāghbān / باغ bāgh)
- রাস্তা (rasta) — road/way (from Persian راستہ rāsta)
- পর্দা (pôrda) — curtain (from Persian پرده parda)
- জমিন / জমি (jomin / jomi) — land/ground (from Persian زمین zamin)
- কোমর (komor) — waist (from Persian کمر kamar)
- চালাক (chalak) — clever/smart (from Persian چالاک chālāk)
- আসমান (asmaan) — sky (from Persian آسمان āsmān) used mostly in Bangladesh
- দরজা (dorja) — door (from Persian در dar + diminutive)
- খোদা (khoda) — God (from Persian خدا khodā; used in expressions like খোদা হাফেজ — "Khoda Hafez" / goodbye)
- আইন (ain) — law (from Persian قانون qānūn via Arabic, but commonly via Persian usage)
- কলম (kolom) — pen (from Persian قلم qalam)
- বদ (bôd) — bad (from Persian بد bad)
- চাকর (chakor) — servant (from Persian چاکر chākar)
- চাকরি (chakri) — job/service (related to the above)
- জোর (jor) — strength/force (from Persian زور zor)
- দেরি (deri) — delay/late (from Persian دیر der)
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation seeks proposals for its new Seminar program. Deadline for submissions is April 8, 2026. buff.ly/Ib0MyD7
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Based in #India? The popular #AIIS dissertation to book workshop makes its way to #Delhi! The deadline for applications is January 10, 2026.
To be held on 14 March, 2026, in Gurgaon for India-based early career scholars.
indiastudies.org/dissertatio…
ALT AIIS dissertation to book workshop flyer for the Delhi-based workshop
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Now THAT is a desi mayor! Solving one of the biggest issues the plagues desis who leave the subcontinent for the US
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He was stabbed to death for 'looking Chinese'. His last words: "We are Indians. What certificate should we show to prove that?'
It’s racist hatred. It’s murder. India is failing its own people.
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We are glad to announce an extended deadline for the 9th Annual South Asia Conference 13-15 April 2026 @DCU.
Please send in submissions till 20th December, 2025!
For all details: dcu.ie/ireland-india-institu…
I never quite understood why I disliked Zarna Garg’s mediocre and model minority toting comedy so disgusting but this piece by @YashicaDutt helped me make sense of my own dissatisfaction with Garg’s brand of comedy.. yashicadutt.substack.com/p/z…
Thank you @unlimited_women
This book takes readers to ground zero of market - based sustainability initiatives in the tea gardens of Darjeeling where FairTrade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production
amazon.in/Everyday-Sustainab… @profdebsen @DebaratiSenTOI
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Who k*i*l*l*e*d Barun Biswas ?
And Why ?
Barun was gunned down #OTD in 2012, 14 months after Mamata Banerjee came to power
Who was Barun Biswas ?
He co-founded "Sutia Gonodhorshon Pratibad Mancha", an organisation which
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If you’re shocked by the gang tape in a Kolkata college, don’t be. This is an HOD of a college in Kolkata. He is TMC leader. Here he’s casually calling @cpimspeak @SFI_CEC leader @aishe_ghosh his kept. Multiple police complaints were lodged against this man. No action so far.
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Manojit Mishra, key accused in South Calcutta Law College rape case, was accused of stabbing in 2013. In 2022, another student accused him of molestation. Yet he was employed as contactual worker on the recommendation of the Governing Body. Here he is with Bobby Hakim.
