"Reading as bootlegging education, then. Reading as threat, as deviance. Reading as pleasure, as protest, as sustenance. Reading as doing what you must to make this life uncircumscribed." Read Zoya Chadha's beautiful and tender piece: tarshi.net/inplainspeak/w…

I am in the field, carrying out the requisite for my PhD. The last time I received my JRF stipend from UGC INDIA was the last week of June 2024. After that not a single penny. And it's not only me. Several students at JNU are facing this problem.

So glad to be a part of this! Tomorrow and the day after in Kozhikode, an exhibition featuring Muslim Women Writers in early twentieth century Malayalam. Folks in Kozhikode, please join! Details in the poster -

Thrilled to have contributed a chapter to this much-needed intervention in the field of sports studies, that investigates the postcolonial sporting body in the Indian context—so wonderfully edited by Dr. Veena Mani and Dr. Mathangi Krishnamurthy (big thanks for holding space

📢🎙🚨 An interview with New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) about my forthcoming book: Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (CUP, November 2024). We talk about the booksellers, the bazaar's transformation, the challenges (and joys!) of fieldwork, and much more: open.spotify.com/episode/4Jqkgn…

KCHR Webinar -Contested Childhoods: Caste And Education In Colonial Kerala by Dr. Divya Kannan Date -November 20, 2024 | Wednesday| 3.30 pm Join Online - zoom.us/j/94016079689

Congratulations to Dr. Ashokan Nambiar, Faculty of English at Manipal Centre of Humanities, on the release of his new book 'Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala: Reconsidering Colonial Modernity' (Bloomsbury). bloomsbury.com/in/print-and-t… Manipal Academy of Higher Education Bloomsbury India

It’s finally out!!! Read my latest journal article co-authored with Simi K. Salim on Arabi-Malayalam Sufi Romance-mathnawi in Southern India, published with Springer Nature in postmedieval rdcu.be/d3OXz

Wrote a review of Nandagopal Menon's excellent book on intra-Muslim polemics in Kerala for Economic & Political Weekly epw.in/journal/book-r…

This Thursday (27 March) at 7pm IST, I-SHORE is hosting the next session of our Talking Texts series on Dr. Ashokan Nambiar's book, "Print and Novel in 19th Century Kerala: Reconsidering Colonial Modernity". To participate, please register here: forms.gle/oDxQjTaz6V1uxY…

Napoli, my heart!

I always wished there were opportunities like this one when I was doing my PhD! Please do consider applying for this inaugural fellowship to use LSE library's resources, LSE Library Fellowships share.google/ZX1CPO0QVxU6qe…

indianexpress.com/article/opinio… Dayal Paleri on the moral imagination of Onam!

The 2026 Yale Modern South Asia Workshop is now accepting submissions! The deadline to submit is December 8, 2025. Learn more and apply via the link below: bit.ly/MSAW2026