caste is your amma, bawa, your uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, grandpas, grandmas..and all their literacy (or illiteracy), their degrees, their jobs, careers, lands, flats, bungalows, huts, hovels, histories or lack thereof..

Kabal Singh is among the lakhs of peasants protesting at #SinghuBorder. He explains why he's walking around the protest site in shackles weighing 5 kilos. “The chain you see around me, the same chain surrounds all of us, you just have to look for it.” ruralindiaonline.org/articles/kabal…

Remembering ARCE and the wonderful time I had working there. Archiving the sound of music livemint.com/mint-lounge/fe…

Happy to share this one- Mid day wrote a very interesting feature about the whole essence and aesthetics of my work. Please read the whole article here : mid-day.com/lifestyle/cult…

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And the prize for stupidest words ever uttered by a human being goes to...

Thinking of submitting a social anthropology paper to the JRAI? Good! As an editor, here are my own (non exhaustive, non definitive) reflections on things that accepted papers often do:

My peoples, the time has come for a MEGATHREAD. In 40 tweets I will explain another 40 concepts you should know. Strap in. Here we go:

#Feral #ecologies: article in JRAI now out. I argue why London's #urban nature is #postcolonial. Ethnographies of #parakeets - as nonhuman #migrants - offer up ways to #decolonize the city. Part of Urban Ecologies and European Research Council (ERC). (1/5) Open access: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

We require a kinship term for “your ex’s ex”... once again anthropologists asleep at the wheel of the zeitgeist’s most pressing needs

Thank you Dilip Mandal for calling out the article in The Economist. The claim that Brahmins come to USA and become CEOs due of reservations back home is absolute nonsense. #caste Also Isabel Wilkerson ‘s predictions in her book are on point. theprint.in/opinion/the-ec…

'नेशनल ओवरसीज स्कॉलरशिप' यह क्या है? इसमें क्या-क्या बदलाव किए गए हैं और यह आपको कैसे प्रभावित करता है? स्पीकर- Sachin और Himalaya હિમાલય मॉडरेटर- Rajan Chaudhary ट्विटर स्पेस का समय : आज रात 9 बजे #SaveNOS x.com/i/spaces/1OyJA…

So the answer is Blue Velvet / Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks (I'm glad to see so many people are as excited as I am about a new David Lynch film) - Variety have just run an article about Lightyear

From labor laws to maternity leave, Affirmative action in education to The criticism of landlords who profit off of holdings Ambedkar's ideas were progressive not 'just for their time' but stand to be radical even today. #AmbedkarJayanti 🧶

Duly elected in the last 5 minutes Mrs Mohinder K. Midha as #Mayor of #Ealing for 22/23. The first ever #Dalit #woman mayor in the #UK. A proud moment for us. Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி Dilip Mandal Nitin Meshram Aparna Banerji Mayawati Chandra Shekhar Aazad 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐤𝐚𝐫 Raj Bangar

BREAKING: it's over 40°C in Siberia 🧵

A tribute to the star who gave us some great films, on the occasion of his 100th anniversary. Rachel Dwyer✍️ thewire.in/film/dev-anand…

Is India still a democracy? My latest for UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/04/inside…

Remembering #Chamkila as he should be remembered: Directed by Kabir Singh Chowdhry (Kabir Singh Chowdhry) this is a tribute that doesn't need sleek and glossy presentation. #Mehsampur youtu.be/8Yy7ZpX7u88?si…