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indian oceanist, phd candidate @harvard_history
Joined April 2019
A truly fascinating book on the Iroquois Confederacy's participation in Britain's military expedition into Sudan between 1884-1885; particularly regarding Mohawk riverine knowledge transposed from the Saint Lawrence to the Nile
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“In denouncing Riel, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald rose in the House of Commons in Ottawa and claimed that Riel had convinced his followers that “he was a sort of El Mahdi.”” (Benn, 2009, p. 85)
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The Yugoslav lands were culturally mixed for hundreds of years. Sarajevo was known as the Jerusalem of Europe. What destroyed Yugoslavia was not multiculturalism, but nationalism
Okay Jarvis, bring up Ethnic Composition of Yugoslavia in 1991 Map
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Great roundup by The Crimson on Larry Summers's deep relationship with Epstein, with whom he "maintained a close personal relationship ... until just months before his death in August 2019," including asking for advice on women:
thecrimson.com
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
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The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies:
thenation.com
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
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This mutually-assured-destruction style release of Epstein memos is simultaneously really fantastic and really horrific in showing how extensive this paedophilia/blackmail/intel network was and how co-extensive with the US ruling class.
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An incredibly thoughtful piece about Ghatak https://t.co/7ISPlTAQYj
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A lyrical meditation on Titash Ekti Nodir Naam, where Mallabarman and Ghatak intertwine rivers, memory, and Bengal’s fractured history.
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RIP homayoun ershadi 🥀 taste of cherry (1997) dir. abbas kiarostami
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"The keys of Janjira are with God": an Urdu folk song of the Kokani Muslim community about Dargah rituals at Janjira fort (like offering Sandal, Niyaz, Sehra, reading Gyarahavin & Maulood) From Dr. Maimoona Dalvi's work 'Kokan Aur Mumbai Ke Urdu Lok Geet' on folk songs of Kokan.
@AjayKamalakaran Down the road in Murud, the mighty sea fortress of Janjira, held by the Sidis, with roots in Africa, and mausoleums of their dynasty. 4/n
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What a beautiful essay by @_mahdichowdhury.
The river has a philosophical form - on Ghatak, Bengal, war, and the ecological warfare on riverine systems. [the most thoughtful writing on cinema by far in a long time @_mahdichowdhury]
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A more tangible manifestation of anti-pest talismanic practices involved placing snakeskin or neem leaves (a common South Asian method) between folios. Here’s an image from my encounter with snakeskin tucked inside an 18th c. Mughal manuscript. Sharing it for double protection!
Ya kabikaj! or “O Lord/Jinn of cockroaches or bookworms” was inscribed on the opening folios of many Arabic & Persian manuscripts to protect them from getting damaged by pests. Sharing this here to safeguard my account from unwanted, anti intellectual entities too. Iykyk👀
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A jewel of old Dhaka and one of the oldest imambaras in South Asia
Husseini Dalan in Dhaka, one of the places in the Bangladeshi capital that really gives you a sense of what Dhaka once was...
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he always cooks ffs
Mélenchon on AI: “The danger isn’t that the machine will replace you, but that you will start acting like the machine.”
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Great study on Saudi Arabia's geo-engineering forays in the 20th century, centering on Prince Muhammad Alfaisal's water-related ambitions... https://t.co/Bkra0BHUrb
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My effort to narrate the history of Gaza, just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies: "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza"
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This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...
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I think @liz_franczak quoted Mao after the first Mamdani win: the countryside surrounds the city and the countryside in this case is Queens.
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Mamdani's victory feels special to me, and perhaps others beyond NY, for its humanization and empowerment of communities that are not often the poster-children of big cities; the anonymous, working-class, gear-turning multiculturalism of Bangladeshis, Haitians, Senegalese, etc
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