What a time to be teaching a course on religion and society in South Asia! This pile is for methods in studying popular religion, such good stuff! #undergraduateteaching #religion #SouthAsia

So, it’s been a few months (which is as good as now in academic time) since I joined the NUS as an Assistant Professor in southasianstudies . Please come say hello if you are here, and please answer my emails if I write to you :) Thanks to all who made this possible!

The ironical strength in organizing a panel on “Anthropological Practice and Illiberal Attachments” centered on upper caste subject making in India at the AAA 2024 in Florida, of all places. So thankful to Akhil Kang, Akanksha Awal and Pinky Hota for steering this ❤️

We cannot use mild words like “miscarriage” or “travesty” to suitably describe this shameful horror. We need new words to speak about and challenge this

Call for papers for the Yale Modern South Asia from advanced PHD students Workshop Yale South Asian Studies Council . Link below macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mode…

What Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein says about progressive politics scroll.in/article/108902… via Scroll.in What a wonderful piece by Kavita Krishnan on the moral fields of public intellectuals!

Based in #India? The popular #AIIS dissertation to book workshop makes its way to #Delhi! The deadline for applications is January 10, 2026. To be held on 14 March, 2026, in Gurgaon for India-based early career scholars. indiastudies.org/dissertation-t…

Such amazing stuff by Felix Pal , Sciences Po The Caravan ! Mapping the RSS network for over six years!

#BrahmPrakash on point! theambedkarianchronicle.in/savarnatva-hin…?