“Please leave my town.” “I will, very soon.”

Banksy’s pretty rubbish but this one’s really shit.

Useful for Nepali historians, too, esp to see how the Indian press covered 19th and early 20th c. Nepal. Here's translation of a 1910 Marathi article, from a paper edited by B G Tilak, very critical of Chandra Shumsher 'donating' Sanskrit manuscripts to the Bodelian libraries.

This needs to be said over, over and over. Corbyn and his coterie, aided and abetted by Momentum, have betrayed class, party, country and Europe. Political ineptitude on a grand scale, Yes, the heavens wept today. One day it can and must be different. But without them .

A greater fool than the most deceived Tory voter speaks:

British politics is like rocket science sometimes.

Lucrative but illegal businesses are sprinkled all over the country recordnepal.com/wire/features/… by Roshan Sedhai #OmPrakashMahato #Dhanusha #youth

A very suitable In Our Time for the week of Brexit. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The Pompeii Lakshmi was found by an Italian soldier in 1938, near the Casa dei Quattro stili, Pompeii - she is made of ivory & dated to the 1st century AD. She represents a deity from the Indian sub-continent and is evidence of the links between the #Roman Empire & #India.

Books import down by 34% in Nepal after the government imposed 10% customs duty on the import of books last year.

A thread on stories The Kathmandu Post published last year which put the paper and its editor at odds with the Chinese embassy whose officials are probably not used to seeing critical news reports about China being printed in Nepali outlets.

It looks cool

Today my book Cities of Strangers is published, without the rituals that usually follow cambridge.org/core/books/cit… It was, therefore, a real pleasure to be invited by The Conversation to write about one of its strand which seems relevant: theconversation.com/how-pandemic-s… Medievalists.net

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Of course!

Simply outstanding from @BCCIwomen star Harleen Kaur Deol🤸‍♀️ #ENGvIND