👀 Huge thanks to International Affairs for choosing Cosmopolitan Elites for their Top 5 books of September 2024 📚 And thank you to Pausali Guha for such a close, generous review of the book in this month’s issue of International Affairs (at academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…)

Meet Shailaja Paik, a Dalit MacArthur genius pushing back against caste discrimination: npr.org/sections/goats…

A statement from Centre for Policy Research.

Go listen to the eminently listenable Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल on everyone’s favourite India podcast #GrandTamasha 📯

Happy Queer Pride from Delhi (I’m not covering it, am taking part 🏳️‍🌈)

Postdoctoral fellowship in South Asian Studirs at Yale South Asian Studies Council. Deadline Feb 15

We held our first Data For India in-person event last week in Delhi and it was terrific. More good things in 2025 🤞🏽

Young researchers of Indian diplomacy, please consider applying! A stellar cast of mentors and peers awaits you.

“This is a defining bromance of the second Trump presidency.” Kira Huju tells “The Intelligence” why India’s leader loves Donald Trump, despite trade tensions. Listen now econ.st/4b4TWPR 🎧

Oxford folks: come think about the EU’s 🇪🇺 relations with global partners, including India 🇮🇳 Will be in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash Galip Dalay Dimitar Bechev and Rodrigo Fracalossi 🔎Details for tomorrow’s event: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1e6bf…

Enjoyed talking to Milan Vaishnav Carnegie Endowment for the #GrandTamasha podcast, elaborating on my essay in ThePrintIndia on US-India relations.

📚 Top 10 Books: International Women’s Day 2025 Book Reviews Editor Mariana Vieira has curated a selection of outstanding books written by women that have been reviewed in our journal over the past year. Dive into the list 👇 medium.com/international-…

The narrative that NATO's eastward expansion caused the Ukraine war distorts our sense of right and wrong, victim and aggressor. It is based on weak reasoning, & it doesn't ask tough questions of Russian behaviour. My column in today's Hindustan Times hindustantimes.com/opinion/aggres…

📯Listening rec: the lovely Amogh Dhar Sharma on what has now become his seminal book on the politics and sociology of political consulting in India

Our piece on the Indian missile strikes against Pakistan overnight. A great deal still unknown, but clearly a step up from the level of the 2019 air strikes. Pakistan highly likely to respond, though probably also in calibrated fashion. economist.com/asia/2025/05/0…

📢 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Oxford School of Global & Area Studies invites Expressions of Interest for the @britishacademy_ Postdoc Fellowship scheme. Open to early-career researchers aiming to pursue independent research. More info and how to apply: area-studies.ox.ac.uk/early-career-o…

Then they came for the political scientists, but I had already laid them off.

”German voters sit in Europe’s mainstream on Gaza: just 14% regard Israel’s actions there as proportionate. (…) Its politicians have some catching up to do.” Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza (from The Economist) economist.com/europe/2025/07…

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” economist.com/interactive/gr…

“The bromance is dead. The question is when did it die?” Kira Huju tells “The Intelligence” what the souring of the Trump-Modi relationship means for India. Listen now economist.com/podcasts/2025/…