NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

During a long jail term in 1922, Nehru read voraciously, books on history, politics and literature, taking notes and providing summaries as he went along. This capsule book review, dated 10th August 1922, seems to anticipate the thinking of Edward Said: “This book — Barnett’s

Four hundred killed in the bombing of a Kabul hospital isn’t one more horror in a time of many: The rules of war the world sought to create after two World Wars are disintegrating, exposing us all to great danger I write in ThePrintIndia buff.ly/ryQ1uFS

spent the afternoon walking around the wazir khan mosque in walled city of lahore, pakistan. one of the most breathtaking mosque in this country

Dear friends, my latest article on Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī’s Akbarian Sufism is finally out in the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society. Please be sure to download it from my Academia page! tufs.academia.edu/RyuseiHomma

That's me holding up microfilm of Sanskrit and Pali texts. National Museum and archives. Iraq 2003. Baghdad. Reporting for The Telegraph.

Berkeley Talks podcast: UC Berkeley Professor Julia Fawcett discusses how Restoration-era stagecraft and London’s post-fire rebuilding mirrored each other, together redefining performance and urban life. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/20/ber…

In 2015 an unnamed senior Iranian official met Henry Kissinger in New York and explained Iranian foreign policy vis a vis the United States with reference to Immanuel Kant's idea of perpetual peace at the endpoint of exhaustion from conflict:

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Quick reminder: The full PDF of my book Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook is freely available: irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolution… It features 2,500+ elite biographies and an extensive dataset on post-1979 Iranian politics -- institutions, elections, and networks.

Mughal Occidentalism: You so lose yourself in the memory of a gaze, Bedil That from your grave's dust wafts the scent of Europe! - Abdul Qadir Bedil, d. 1721 Zi khūd bih yād-i nigāhī ki mīravī, Bīdil Ki az ghubār-i tū būy-i Firang mī-āyad

War, as someone said, is God's way of teaching Americans geography. A much cheaper way is to simply study history!

A painting of Nagaphon Ghat, Dhaka, Bangladesh (1787), by Johann Zoffany, portraying moonlit riverine life and the natural landscape of 18th-century Dhaka.

Post Doctoral Fellowships in Sweden for Humanities and Social Sciences At the time of application, candidates must have held a PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) for at least three years (PhD awarded before 1st June 2023) Details at swedishcollegium.se/fellowships/ge… Apply by 1st June 2026

📢 OPEN APPLICATIONS for an Early Career Research Network on Mediterranean Slavery at Oxford! We will cover travel and accommodation in Oxford (May) and Paris (June) for up to 12 early career researchers. Please share, it will be fun series of events! unseen.web.ox.ac.uk

Catalog of Persian Manuscripts in the Kazakhstan National Library by Safar Abdullo and S.M. Bakir Kamaladdini

A doctor who is a forensic expert and had also established his own IT company more than two decades ago, wrote 85,000 lines of code to build a scansion tool to unlock the complexities of Aruuz--Urdu meter. newsbits.in/now-a-scansion… 'Aruuz Nigar' is available on Github for

At Delhi's Piprahwa exhibition, I recently saw a small stone sculpture of Ashtamahapratiharya or the Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha from Nalanda,10th century. Bought a replica & today I wrote a brief description by hand. Each event is associated with a pilgrimage site: