Western cli-fi seems almost addicted to Southasia as a theatre for exploring its greatest concerns, yet often falls prey to stereotypes. But there is also a growing tide of climate fiction by Southasians themselves Evan Tims, Southasia in climate fiction: himalmag.com/southasia-in-c…

Shoojit Sircar can't deal with OTT platforms anymore.

it's crazy that civilization is ending in like 20-30 years and we're just here working jobs

I received this email from The University of Edinburgh yesterday. I hold a postgraduate offer at LSE, am a US citizen, and will be graduating from Edinburgh Uni this week without a degree, due to the marking and assessment boycott. My entire plan for the coming year has been thrown into chaos.

Was most surprised to receive an email from the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture wanting the script of Zwigato for their Permanent Core Collection. Only when stories are rooted in their own contexts, they transcend cultures & become part of world cinema. Happy!!

Tremendous scenes: mass support and solidarity shown by protesting students outside today’s graduation at Edinburgh Uni UCU

We note the decision by UCEA to suspend us after we reached a local arrangement to end the Marking and Assessment Boycott. Our focus has always placed our students first and we remain convinced that this local arrangement was the correct and most appropriate course of action

Just before today’s Bristo Square protest by our marvellous Edinburgh students calling to #SettleTheDispute, all staff received an e-mail from the VC welcoming UCU talks with @ucea1. We’d like to provide a bit of context and some corrections. 🧵1/9

📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢 This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪

Breaking News: Milan Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and a Communist Party outcast in Czechoslovakia, died at 94. nyti.ms/3pJHRfU

#MilanKundera, who passed away today, was one of those formative writers in my life. Sharing a thread of some of the most memorable lines from his works, that I've scribbled in notebooks over the years. 🧵

NEW: We are calling on the Home Office & Suella Braverman MP to consider extenuating circumstances for the impact outstanding qualifications will have on international students. We have done everything possible to get UCEA back to the table for a quick resolution. #ucuRISING

“In a culture that largely defines worthiness, sanity, and success in terms of how distant we are from our feelings, how far and fast we run away from our roots, how numb we are to the fluency of our bodies, daring to slow down . . .

As far as ISRO remains under the control of Brahmins, they will transport caste to the extraterrestrial world - Suraj Yengde in "Caste Matters". Based.

buying books, reading books, and finishing books are 3 entirely different hobbies dont fight us

“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?” Rest in Peace, Milan Kundera.

it will pass — in art

I think watching Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day taught me that, across the cinematic spectrum, Hollywood doesn’t live up to its own marketing.

I’m calling on the Home Office to consider extenuating circumstances for the impact outstanding qualifications is having on international students. UCU Read my letter here 👇

nothing actually exists anymore like so many physical stores are closing and you can't have a house and everything is a subscription or an app u can't play games without internet and u can't even guarantee that art and writing is even made by people like everything is vapor