To read the Bible is to know I'm extremely pro-death.

You can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions. Read that again.

Bollywood castism - Sunny Pawar is a Dalit child actor from in Oscar nominated Lion. The director screened 8,000 child actors before shortlisting Sunny from Mumbai Slum. Sunny got worlds accolade after success of Lion and his superlative acting. But Bollywood ignored sunny. 1/n

In a well lit courtroom, protected by casing of bullet proof glass sat Eichmann, staring into the void. Among the audience was Hannah Arendt on an assignment to cover the famous trial. After closely observing the affairs she came with now famous term "The Banality of Evil". 🧵

New publication 📢 Sharing my article on the history of the Screenwriters' Association in Bombay, which details SWA India Org 's largely unknown labour activism on issues of housing, healthcare, disability, copyright and minimum wage during the 1950s-70s. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Two exciting new books in #Economics from Cambridge University Press - Academic - A History of Economic Policy in India by Rahul De Azim Premji University and A Political Theory of Money by Anush Kapadia @IITBombay. A great time for editors to see books long-in-the-making published! Qudsiya Ahmed Anandadeep Roy

In George Orwell's Dystopian Classic '1984', he describes a way in which the tyrannical government was able to psychologically control the public called 'two minutes hate'. For two minutes the people would stare at a screen, portraying an enemy of the governments choosing, and

Intersections Between Global Social Theory and Sociological Theory A Lecture by Sujata Patel 10 November 2023 6 pm Registration link - us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

‘Tell Pandit #Nehru he has been a freedom fighter for Africa and Asia, and we respect him... Tell him our freedom struggle will carry on till all #Tibetans are free or dead.’ — freedom fighters from #Kham to Apa Pant, #Lhasa, 1957 #FreeTibet #himalayanhistories #RememberingNehru

Our special issue is out! Kaveri Medappa Mohammad S Hussain Gayatri Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Listen… win or lose tomorrow, I wanted to acknowledge one group of people. My Hindu friends in India-The real Hindus. The ones who kept at it, the ones who fought family and friends, the ones who disowned and got disowned, the ones who spoke up no matter the consequences- 🥰 🥰

Hope for India today ✨

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Gandhi

Rural India saved the Constitution.

Thinking of Mohammed Akhlaq, Gauri Lankesh, Govind Pansare and more. Farmers, students, journalists, Dalit activists, workers, fighters. All those who refused to give in. That's the country I am proud of. Not there yet, but we are an awful lot closer.

Will Bollywood now stop churning those mediocre, Islamophobic films ?

A sketch of Tagore, to celebrate India’s choice to return to Tagore’s philosophy—of individual freedom, rejection of hyper-nationalism & openness to all religions.