Times Square, New York. Memorable rendition of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's song by artists from Bangladesh, as they welcome Bengali New Year 1430. Shubho Noboborsho to all. May the New Year be auspicious & bring with it joy, prosperity, good health & success in all endeavors.

Nearly 9% of India's population consists of Indigenous peoples. Adivasis have been continually forced into the material and epistemic disadvantages. Grievances are endless. There are only a few dedicated scholarships that recognise this. Please RT, share! some.ox.ac.uk/the-oicsd/scho…

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A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

The Empty Library, Berlin. The memorial of the burning of books by the Nazis that took place in the German capital on May 10, 1933. thanks to Xavi Ruiz

Ranajit Guha (May 1923 - April 2023) was one of the early pioneers of Subaltern Studies that ushered a new way of studying South Asia. In his tribute to Guha, Partha Chatterjee writes how Ranajit Guha's ideas shaped anthropology & history of South Asia. thewire.in/history/ranaji…

Sharing some thoughts in a thread on Ranajit Guha's significance. I was surprised at how acutely I felt the news of his passing, as if the world itself had been smaller and poorer. An ineffable loss, indeed 1/

That was red-carpet grace at its best. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, Soumitra Chatterjee in 1965 walking the #redcarpet at the Berlin Intl. Film Festival. Ray’s Charulata won Best Director award, Madhur Jaffrey, Best Actress for James Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah

We are devastated by the loss of the revolutionary Ghanaian author Prof. Ama Atta Aidoo, who passed away earlier today, May 31. Prof. Aidoo was a profound voice in African literature & a champion for women writers. May her soul rest in peace. 🕊️ 🕊️ 🕊️ brittlepaper.com/2023/05/pionee…

Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia. Apply by September 1, 2023 for 2-12 months of support. asianstudies.org/call-for-appli…

Can we imagine a new interdisciplinary field of #DesignHumanities that could connect thinking and making within frameworks of equity, justice and humility? Looking forward to sharing my thoughts at HASTAC 2023 Conference. #hastac2023

" A Mukhomukhi production AAJKER SAJAHAN... আজকের সাজাহান 20th June, Madhusudan Mancha, 6.30 pm Play: Utpal Dutta Direction: Suman Mukhopadhyay Online Tickets: thirdbell.in/events/aajker-… Photo: Sur O Sree

I will insist until the end of time that fantastic scholarly work is being produced constantly under impossible conditions AND that we have to document and fight those conditions lest it seem for a second to admin, funders, etc, that, see, they don’t really NEED resources anyway.

Amanda Amanda Lanzillo & I are excited to announce that the next piece in our one and only series on Workers of India with The Wire will be on cycle mechanics who helped India move. You can explore our series here to know the world of labourers and workers.

What a lovely first month Roger Williams University - inspired by the passion of the faculty, staff and administrators I met! And cannot get enough of this absolutely gorgeous and thoughtfully designed campus 🌞❤️

Introducing the Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation. Co-founded by Pacific Northwest book workers Justin W. and Spencer Ruchti, the Cercador is the first bookseller-led prize for literature in translation. Five booksellers, ten finalists, one winner. Coming fall '23.

Apply for a weekend of FREE programming on Aug 26-27, aimed at empowering literary translators of color, featuring workshops with DongLi 李栋, @lhkuroda, & Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி! 🌺 Apply by July 14 💫 literarytranslators.org/virtual-events…

This is Hachikō. He was an Akita born on Nov. 10, 1923 in Japan. He was sold to Hidesaburo Ueno, a scientist at the University of Tokyo. Ueno named him Hachi after the number 8, which is considered lucky in Japan, and the two became inseparable...

Today, we take a w̶a̶l̶k̶ ride down memory lane. In this thread (🧵) we will talk about Indian two wheelers that your mom and dad used. You probably learned to ride on one of these vehicles too, let us know! A guest thread by nandyellidli

An American teen who's also the family translator The short film "Translators," about 3 immigrant Latino teens who translate for their Spanish-language parents, has been praised for portraying an American experience that has taken place for generations. nbcnews.com/news/latino/tr…