A story on contemporary transnational Jainism, featuring some input from yours truly. tabletmag.com/sections/commu…

Tampa! Join me University of South Florida, courtesy of the Religious Studies Club @ USF, to kick off the #Jain Community Lecture series next Wednesday (Mar. 6). I’ll discuss my forthcoming book, Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate (Routledge Books).

As a marketing professor, it’s his job to be persuasive. Scott Galloway should be fired for sucking this bad at the thing that actually *is* his job. But why are we listening to a marketing professor? No actual experts on this issue available for comment? New York University MSNBC

An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones. Hala Gorani reports from Israel.

Imagine being so afraid of your billionaire donors pulling out that you’ll get the mayor to spend millions in taxpayer dollars to stifle free speech at an institution meant to debate the ideas that make us truly free.

My column in The Telegraph on how researchers in our best institutes are asked to tailor their work to the greater glory of Hindus, Hindutva, and Narendra Modi. What effect will this have on the practice of science and the morale of scientists in India? telegraphindia.com/opinion/unscie…

This is an outrage. MSU Denver President Janine Davidson must issue a public correction and send it out to all who received the initial misinformation. This is intentionally false smearing of demonstrators and may lead to their being harmed. An apology would be appropriate, too.

“What this university has never understood…is that the commitment to Gaza runs deeper than fears for our safety, fears for our careers, fears for our paychecks…”

This is the kind of misinformation that these organizations are using as part of a plan that would meet the Kremlin goal to "secure victory" for the "preferred outcome of the 2024 election." 11/

Oct 3, 4PM CEST, please join my lecture GhentCBS on "Monastic Monsters," part of my new historiography of #anarchist/#Outcaste #Buddhism, in which I examine #Brahminization in ancient #India in light of #FrantzFanon's #colonial #plantation state. Pls email organizer for link.

Proofs! Book is out in June 2025.

Springer just published a Handbook of Indian History. It doesn’t have a single chapter on Islam or Muslims. The word Islam appears 5 times, the word Muslim 9 times, in a 507 page book. Is this negligence or a Hindutva-zation of South Asian Studies? Either way, it’s outrageous.

Hey, Elon Musk, here’s your chance to go lose your mind, #Nazi. #NaziSalute

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Denver act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-ol…