fwiw going to personally negotiate the release and return of your deported constituents is one of the only meaningful action electeds can be taking right now, as it has been under previous administrations too. anything less is wholly failing those you represent.

Some thoughts on DOGE/the Trump administration's destruction of USIP, the Wilson Center, and home-grown social science/area studies expertise about the rest of the world: paulstaniland.com/2025/04/16/usi…

The people of Kashmir lose more than anyone else every time India and Pakistan fight it out over the region. Tightened military control. Suffocating spot checks. Curfews. Raids. Insecurity that anyone might be an insurgent. Thoughts with Kashmiri families.

the worst part is, while india and pakistan posture for power, it’s kashmiris on both sides who pay the price. school children, farmers, underdog towns no one can pronounce, will die before the world learns their names.

Excited to share that I'll be with UChicago CIR for one more year with the second-year specialization program! Looking forward to continuing my academic training (particularly in methods!) and gaining more friends/experiences along the way.

Images From 4 Days of Conflict and Its Aftermath in India and Pakistan nytimes.com/2025/05/07/wor…

Excellent thread with a lot of good reading suggestions. And while we can talk about Hindutva-Zionism and India-Israel, so much of the discourse misses (on the latter) how much of India's policies in Kashmir is due to Indian conceptions of nationalism instead of just Hindutva and

Any Ethiopian restaurant - Tsehay and Elfegne on 18th, Chercher in Mt Vernon, and the iconic Dukem on U St are the best

The situation along the LOC remained uncertain, with tens of thousands of people still displaced. No reports of a major breach on Sunday night…but on Monday, brief drone sightings and explosions reported in places on the Indian side of Kashmir. nytimes.com/2025/05/12/wor…

"If you are playing Russian roulette and pull the trigger, the lesson isn't that you should pull the trigger again," - Christopher Clary says it in style. An attack on the Nur Khan facility may have been perceived as more dangerous than India intended. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

"....an examination of satellite imagery indicates that while the attacks were widespread, the damage was far more contained than claimed — and mostly inflicted by India on Pakistani facilities. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

IMPORTANT NOTE - I received a cancellation of my #OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) *today* after arriving home. A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority & anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule.

EXCLUSIVE India’s Ministry of External Affairs has ended the Chinese language trainee program for its diplomats in Taiwan. Future diplomats will go to China for their Chinese language training.

#SriLanka: Happening now at Liberty roundabout in Colombo - 'Sri Lanka in solidarity with Palestine' protest.

MTG and Chris Murphy agreeing? Not on my 2025 bingo card but here we are…

Anyone know how to access previous MEA statements from 2015 - 2019? The current MEA website sometimes crashes when I put that search request in and was wondering if there was an archival site I should be looking at...

1/ Excited to release this new paper by Paul Staniland on the interaction between great power relations and domestic politics in South Asia. Paul asks a big Q: How and why do domestic actors in Asia mobilize external major power rivalry in their own internal politics?

How can you look at children and not think of Gaza? How can you look at our country and not think of complicity?

Evidence that progressive candidates successfully coordinated under RCV:

The The Washington Post tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.