The much awaited and important Non-fiction of 2024!
The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case. #TheIncarcerations #Democracy
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Joys of writing: when friends send you pics of your books in stores on the other side of the world!
None beats this one👇from Calcutta Airport 'New Releases' where #TheIncarcerations is placed next to '101 Reasons I will Vote for Modi'.
Democratic values will flourish again!
This morning on peeking into Cecilia’s brother-in-law’s bag. They arrived yesterday…Goa. Lo—Alpa Shah’s #TheIncarcerations
Alpa Shah right on the top, along with inks, paper, and requested stuff: #Outlook mag issue on #Kamatipura ’s #sexeorkers , by #RamakantFadte .
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Delighted to spot Alpa Shah’s #TheIncarcerations (‘Shah has a gift for non-fiction narrative, and the book, enlivened by photos and maps of the Indian states where the action unfolds, is almost cinematic…’) and Kunal Purohit’s #HPop (‘Filled with vivid scenes from India’s…
‘A lucid account of the struggles, life histories, and peculiar circumstances of victims of the state's crackdown on dissent.’
Read a Business Standard review of Alpa Shah’s stunning new book on the #BK16 and the state of Indian democracy: #TheIncarcerations :
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'This experience of learning about the BK-16, intimately, bridges the gap between us and them… And it brings the terror of their experiences closer home,” Mekhala Saran reviews #TheIncarcerations by Alpa Shah. thequint.com/opinion/the-in…
To know about judicial farce, casteism, dangers of technology, & utter disregard for human values Alpa Shah 's #TheIncarcerations by HarperCollins makes an important read.
Read it once, read it twice & re-read it again.
Wonderful event for 📚 #TheIncarcerations hosted SOAS South Asia Institute w the fab Subir Sinha Alessandra Mezzadri Jens Lerche. 🙏
Full circle back to when Anand Teltumbde was with us in 2017👇. Who would have known then that one of us would have been incarcerated in the crazy BK case in India?
Great to see the packed room for this #LSEIndia event discussing #TheIncarcerations by Alpa Shah with Jaffrelot Christophe, Tarun Khaitan, Deborah James and Priyanka Kotamraju LSE Inequalities #BK16
A beautiful review of 📚 #TheIncarcerations Business Standard. 'My all-time favourite is an academic who can write movingly without losing the rigour. Scholar-storyteller Alpa Shah has that rare quality.' 🙏Vipul Mudgal & Business Standard for covering BK-16.
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Looking forward to delivering the Justice & Asia Distinguished Lecture tomorrow 4pm University of Notre Dame.
Folks in Chicago #TheIncarcerations comes to you next! Join us on Tues 29 April UChi Pozen Center or Northwestern and pre-order US edition👇 orbooks.com/catalog/the-in…
Honoured: John Reed जॉन रीड reviews #TheIncarcerations FT Weekend alongside Jaffrelot Christophe Kunal Purohit
'[A] compulsively readable story…Shah has a gift for non-fiction narrative, and the book.. is almost cinematic'
How to understand Modi’s India ft.com/content/177f21… via @ft
#TheIncarcerations event in SOAS on 24th April, 5 pm.
Do join us!
Alpa Shah Subir Sinha Jens Lerche
SOAS Ambedkar Society
SOAS South Asia Institute
Today #TheIncarcerations meets University of Notre Dame.
In the vicinity? Join us for the Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture. 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls 4pm. Honoured to follow in the steps of the 2022 lecturer Professor Romila Thapar who in 2018 filed a petition against the BK arrests.
#TheIncarcerations is a devastating and unputdownable book that is essential reading for anyone looking at India today and wondering, 'what the heck happened?' Alpa Shah has achieved something remarkable.
Greatly looking forward to this launch of #TheIncarcerations tonight SOAS South Asia Institute with a brilliant panel Alessandra Mezzadri Jens Lerche Subir Sinha!
I gather its a full house again... See you soon at the Khalili Theatre! Laura Meyer