Beginning my class on dogs next week with Sianne Ngai (on cuteness), Yasmin Nair's essay on the pitbull and @DollyKikon's recent essay.

The Indian state is celebrating the first anniversary of the siege and blockade that it imposed on 5 Aug 2019 in Kashmir... with a siege and blockade in Kashmir. They are so dull and predictable!

India's postcolonial journey can be encapsulated by this star's trajectory from angry young man of the 1970s to angry senile toady today.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/UoWk5mJvj1

Much needed debrief on that crazy matchmaking show this Thursday. In excellent conversation company with @suchitrav @AruniKashyap @kareempuff Huge thx to @project_polis for this speed match. We’ll try to be jolly, flexible, well-traveled, good-natured & rich AF😉

Thanks Shweta Krishnan

These days, 70 % of the daily Indian newspaper is made of rehashed govt press releases. Propoganda model, filter 3, in full swing: "The mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interest."

One of the best books I read this year--its planetary, anthropocenic, deep-time-ish, whatever you'd like to call it+a great story

Indian Matchmaking, among other shows about Indian Americans/Indian diaspora fail to acknowledge that just because we are racial and religious minorities doesn’t mean we don’t have our own systems of oppression and bigotry. My own thoughts + a collection of tweets/threads (1/n):

In India’s Northeast, a Rich Tradition of Insect Foods https://t.co/Bhln9Pw20Q

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my book Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities, out in October with @CornellPress. Thank you @jimlance554 for believing in this book! #race #refugees #citizenship #smallcities #Fargo #anthropology

.@_AfricanUnion should reprimand India and strip it from the membership of international human rights body. This casteist country hates everything non-Aryan.

My first week at Duke, a Brahmin woman told a room of Indian students that her undergrad college in Blore has a wall where men urinated. And that the wall had a line demarking the area upto which Dalits could pee. She explained it as 'reservation' befitting 'quota' students. 1/

The politics of dog meat ban in Nagaland

SOS: #VaraVararao is seriously ill. Called up wife Hemalatha today, has been hallucinating about death of his long gone parents. Person with him in jail told family over phone that VV is in #verybadshape. Delirious. Unable to walk or brush teeth! #RT for urgent hospitalization.

We know the drill: govt will be sued over keeping international students enrolled. There may be victories, esp w/ 41billion$ revenue at stake. But deep damage is already done by the announcements. For poc, foreigners, migrants, message received: We live in a reign of terror.

#6MonthsofJNUAttack

Coalition of American Ambedkarites Organizations, an anti-caste body releases a statement on Cisco caste discrimination. If you want to reach out to the spokesperson of the coalition DM me I’ll hook you up. cc. @KevinKish_DFEH @CalDFEH