It's not about wages, days off, pensions, security of labour - maybe the only thing worth saying today is a cry for relief from productive subjectivity. Go do something today that has little or no value. youtube.com/watch?v=KfuKKe…

My paper with Nitya Rao on #Bengaluru migrants is out! With support from CARIAA - IRCAAA ASSAR

Inclusion or Exclusion?: Gendered Experiences and Strategies of Migrants in Informal Settlements in Bengaluru
doi.org/10.1177/097370…

“Whoever shows no mercy to human beings will receive no mercy from God.”

— Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ

This Friday, Janaki Nair discusses the urban life of caste in Bangalore!

'Radical Ethnography is not just about re-search, it is about re-building—acting to redress/mitigate the harm done.'

New from our #TeachingTools on the teaching of radical ethnography by Rosalina Diaz: culanth.org/fieldsights/de…

So great that Laurence Gautier's study on Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia is finally out with Cambridge University Press! She looks at the relations of the two institutions with the state & 'public debates on Muslims' status in post-partition India'.
doi.org/10.1017/978100…

This is how 'moral theorist' Michael Walzer irrationally and shamelessly justifies the genocidal onslaught against Palestinians.

Walzer's is an example of how morality can descend to such a level that it ceases to be morality at all and morphs into raw, cold, oppressive

From the archive: A debate between Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Connor Cruise O'Brien moderated by Robert B. Silvers on 'The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act' from 1967

chomsky.info/19671215/

There's a nice Rahul Verma & Chhibber article on this actually: They argue there are differences in economic policy among elites but they don't translate into mass politics because all parties present the State as the solution to economic deprivation journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Our New Article 👇🏻 👇🏻
Based on the controversy about Arabic calligraphy on a woman’s dress in Pakistan &
urination signs in Bangladesh,
we discuss the issue of form and content in language & show how intertextuality plays a role in meaning-making.
languageonthemove.com/sacred-font-pr…

Some of my favorite digital archives

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view……

Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online

Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht……

NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

Scholar of decolonisation here.

This is not decolonisation. Quite the opposite: recolonisation.

I recommend this excellent contribution to the study of technocracy and populism.

Apparently, this is one instance where Spivak needs to be read as satire since the savarna subaltern class only speaks when it suits it to for cosplay, to access power and proximity to whiteness.

New publication!

Through an ethnographic analysis of Kanwar Yatra, I argue how notions of 'public religiosity' and it's expressions are undergoing changes in north India today, and it's implications.

Grateful to Studies in Indian Politics and suhas palshikar.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

When the grassroots economist Jean Drèze speaks, listen..
Economic Times Tribal Army Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections…

Bihar has muslim population of 2 Crore 32 Lakh & they got 2 Loksabha Seats.

Lalu Family has 11 Members including all sons, daughters & Lalu-Rabri & they got equally 2 Loksabha Seats.

This is social justice & jiski jitni sankhya bhari, uski utni hissedari.

#RJD_Cheated_Muslims

Le Monde Diplo gives me here an opportunity to explain why democracy is declining in Modi's India. Hurst Publishers Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Fred Appel Karthika V.K. CERI Sciences Po Recherche SciencesPo Carnegie India King's India Institute Indian Alliance Paris Alliance Program
mondediplo.com/2024/04/03india

Announced for September 2024, the publication of a collective book on the Indian farmers’ protest 2020-2021 that I got the privilege to co-edit with Christine Moliner at Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies
stay tuned ! IFRO - Department of Food and Resource Economics
routledge.com/The-Indian-Far…