A long-awaited invaluable scholarship: "Ambedkar's Political Philosophy: A Grammar of Public Life from the Social Margins" by Valerian Rodrigues, OUP. It was difficult for UC mainstream academics elites to accept Ambedkar; now, Ambedkar is inevitable to academics and politics.

Indian tech bros to incels to genocidal entrepreneurship is a pipeline

Adivasi writer and activist Jacinta Kerketta has rejected an award by US AID and Room to Read India Trust. She expressed her disapproval of accepting any recognition that involves US AID when thousands of children are suffering due to conflicts in Palestine. Hul Johar!

Incredible data journalism. This Article shows exactly what "algorithmic wage theft" looks like. We need more than the minimum wage & data transparency: we need new laws of work to prevent algorithmic wage discrimination. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Rest in Power Professor ❤️ ✊ #GNSaibaba

These are photos of Obama at a Palestinian community dinner in Chicago seated at a table with Edward Said, Ali Abunimah and Rashid Khalidi. The latter have both attested to his betrayal and how Obama used to always attend events in their community. In 1999, Abunimah introduced

Vasantha, GN Saibaba's partner

Jai Bhim! We are inviting all interested Bahujan applicants to apply for the inaugural cohort of Indian Scholars Mentorship Program (ISMP) 2024. Deadline: October 23, 2024 (11:59 pm) Mentee form: bit.ly/BE_ISMP_2425 FAQ: bit.ly/BE_ISMP_FAQ #ISMP #BahujanEcon #BE

I prepared and defended my master's thesis amidst the sounds of bombing and terror during the Gaza war, to send a message to the world that we in Gaza deserve life and are waiting for the sun of freedom. We are waiting for the world to see us 💔.

NEW EPISODE ALERT🎙️: In this episode, guest is Professor Shailaja Paik, a renowned scholar who recently won the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant. She talks about her incredible journey from living in the slums of Yerawada, Pune, to becoming one of the world’s leading

I’m happy to share that I successfully defended my MPhil in law viva. I thank Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Aadhav Arjuna, Dhanya Rajendran and everyone who supported me during the crowdfunding. I will soon start my DPhil in Law at the Faculty of Law as OICSD’sGopal Subramanian Scholar.

Reading (again and again) Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies for my grad class. It never gets old in a settler colonial and genocidal world. It should be a must read for every grad program.

Keeping memories alive: GN Saibaba's cat, Tofoo, mews while checking out a portrait made by his student.

My mother has a similar story from her childhood in the 50s. Not the genocide of today, but with severe crop and aid shortages, Gaza was saved by an abundance of sardines that year. The sea, like the land, is ours and it knows its family and caretakers.

“I have no homeland. How can I call this land my own homeland and this religion my own, wherein we are treated worse than cats and dogs”

Imagine being paid Rs 1000 per month for working 6-8 hrs per day Salary of cooks-cum-helpers in midday meal programme, 90% women, remains Rs 1000 since it was fixed in 2009 Salary of MPs went up thrice in 12 years, from Rs 16,000 in 2006 to Rs 1 lakh plus in 2018 PMO India

Wrote about this a while back: a core function of elite higher education is to acculturate future elites into the belief that you can simultaneously be a Good Person With Good Liberal Opinions and also work in predatory industries that ruin other peoples lives and/or the country.

It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”

If you like to further read on earlier findings of this research, please see here 'Ways to stick around' (2022) and let me know if you need access (3) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Caste isn’t a South Asia issue but world's oldest social hierarchy dehumanizing 260M+ Dalits globally. It intersects w/ patriarchy, race, class & capitalism to sustain exploitative systems Priyanka | پرینکا writes on centering caste in global feminist fora behanbox.com/2024/12/17/glo…