Where I grew up, By golden river, Gorky played with Birsa. Periyar walked the furnace road, By Munda homes. Mahua fell lightly, On heads of autumn Kaash. Today, Trains that cut Sal forest ghosts, Bring angry men, Married to #Ram. The mines however, Don’t care. They never have

Save the date! Celebrating Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak at 100

https://t.co/VgQ1TbJvNi The seas and himalaya are heating. Result? Catastrophic rainfall in western himalaya during monsoon. Read more to find out how these features interact.

My debut poetry collection from @GuillemotPress will be out in late September but is available to pre-order now https://t.co/tievNsWqRJ

We want your story! The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has begun 📚 Citizens of Commonwealth countries aged over 18 can enter. Stories should be between 2,000–5,000 words and must be unpublished fiction. Entry is free, and you can write on any theme. Five regional winners

“the numerous private hydropower corporations who’ve violated dam safety laws, or central agencies complicit in ignoring geological warnings. Instead, it offers a candid acknowledgment of the disaster but refuses to name the beneficiaries” @ManshiAsher https://t.co/xiSDRxEvWh

We are OPEN FOR PROPOSALS for the month of SEPTEMBER, please see our PROJECTS page for more info: https://t.co/k5y2Xdhp53

The Bombay Literary Magazine is open for submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, and graphic narratives. We pay 5000 INR per contribution. Fiction and poetry are capped at 400 subs, so please send your work a while before the month ends. https://t.co/kUIyiwAl11

Dirty research: A call towards decolonial urban knowledge production Tanzil Shafique Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 https://t.co/Gf7TQX9r8q

PhD candidates working on migration-related issues. Here's an opportunity.

the 10th anniversary issue of the Funambulist features a conversation I helped facilitate between Antonio Roman-Alcalá and David E. Gilbert about agriculture and land reform. such a testiment to the great work featured in the magazine that it has lasted for 10 years!

And here it is - The Cambridge Companion to Periyar! Delighted to have coedited the volume with @ARV_Chalapathy. We have an amazing set of contributors here. Book will be released at a big event - more details soon! Many thanks to @qudsiya_Ah @RanaAnwesha & others @CambridgeUP.

🌴 Call for Contributions 🌴 Repair, Resistance, Reworlding: Coloniality and the European Union’s Relations with the Global Souths Deadline: 15 October 2025 Co-editors: @antonioalcazr & @RahelWeldeab https://t.co/cHoWtW6GMW

great set of papers sharing new work on migration and militarization in/across India's borderlands. read and share! congrats to all authors and especially @salahpunathil.

After two years of persistent efforts, the special issue of Asian Ethnicity “Migration and Borderlands: Ethnographic Explorations from India” is finally out in the world! Congrats to @salahpunathil for pulling this off! https://t.co/Om3xy4vhxa #migration #borders #southasia

✏️ Call for papers Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career Submit by 30 August 2025 https://t.co/OVtkuGQQqw

New work! A Kashmiri woman's scepticism is stirred when Jaan Saeb, a barefoot mystic, arrives in her village. Read 'Belief', my translation of MK Raina's short story, in @bombaylitmag's August edition. https://t.co/6v9Sq9zspz

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My article - on how three Environment ministers between 2009-14 intervened in the debate over #GMcrops - is out in the Annals of @theAAG. It provides a rare ethnography of the politics of expertise at the interface between senior bureaucrats and the union cabinet of ministers.

For friends in Delhi, @sfijnuunit is organizing a screening of Elia Suleiman's third film in this renowned trilogy: The Time That Remains. Mark the date and time on your calendar and do join. Saturday, 9th August at 9PM Students Union Office (TEFLAS), JNU

I’m really happy to share that “Amphibious Anthropologies” is finally here! 🤩 Hope you like it! @UWAPress is holding a book sale (40% off) through August 31 with free shipping within the US.