As a part of Manthan’s Alumni series, we bring to you an interview with Dr. Abhilasha Joshi Abhilasha Joshi, PhD who is currently a Assistant Professor (Reader F) at the National Center for Biological Sciences.

Please save the date for the "Border Zones of Global South Asia: Diaspora, Dispossession, and Decolonization" symposium taking place on Monday, April 7 at Northeastern University (Boston, MA). Register here: eventbrite.com/e/border-zones…

Really honored that our 📕 Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness 📗 (Princeton University Press) won the 2025 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from Association for Asian Studies. Tariq Thachil Johns Hopkins SAIS

Join us for a South Asia Seminar with Smitha Radhakrishnan. 📅 Date: Friday, February 28, 2025 🕑 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST 📍 Location: Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St 📚 Title: Hidden Precarities: Indebtedness, Caste, and Breadwinning in Urban Uttarakhand, India

Final year PhDs

Our (Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky) Mekhala Krishnamurthy and my) working paper on Relational State Capacity is out! Published by SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and available at snfagora.jhu.edu/publication/re… .

Online in Early View EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai by Sangeeta Banerji onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Universities as factories. globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/202…

Several years ago I invented an entirely fictitious French theorist called Jacques Maudrieillou. When I feel someone is getting the better of me in an intellectual conversation I bring up his most recent book and talk about it until they concede defeat

Very proud of this issue in Urbanisation. A narrow investigation of female labor force participation in India turned into a full fledged interdisciplinary exploration of gender, mobility, marriage, labor, media, & social preferences. Free until March 14! urbanisationjournal.com/#latest

My latest for Hindustan Times: The dismantling of the American state is well underway. Indians should not be celebrating but sounding the alarm. Above all, they should be bracing for impact. hindustantimes.com/opinion/tremor…

It's exciting to see the public-intellectual drumbeat around "Abundance" manifest in this year's crop of California housing bills. They're far more ambitious--and promising--than anything I've seen previously. 🧵/17

नए रूप में शिमला का इंडियन कॉफ़ी हाउस #shimla #himachalpradesh

“Solidarity is ‘the art and practice of sharing in another’s struggle.’” Parul Sehgal's essay echoes Prerna Singh in How Solidarity Works for Welfare: genuine unity is built through empathy, collective investment, and facing conflict head-on. nytimes.com/2025/03/15/mag…

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Great PhD opportunity with an incredible mentor—don’t miss out!

If you’re a grad worker working on South Asia, want sharp feedback & a generous travel/stay grant — please apply to Con-GRA 2025! [Deadline: July 30] DM/email with questions. Retweet for good karma! sites.google.com/brown.edu/cong… Generously funded by Saxena Center @ Brown Watson School at Brown

Last 2 days before we close the applications. 🗓️