
Vishakha N. Desai
@vishakhandesai
Arts & Culture Expert, Senior Advisor on Global Affairs, Chair of the Committee on Global Thought @Columbia
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It took me 20 years to get a solo museum show in NYC & not only did it sell out many times it proved to be a game changer for The Morgan packing in simultaneously a new & diverse audience. Other Museums should take note esp those seeking engagement beyond an insular artworld


Don't miss our next exciting event on February 17! Vishakha N. Desai will moderate a discussion on the hopes & anxieties of young people in China & India with authors Vivan Marwaha and Zak Dychtwald Register here: bit.ly/hopes_anx

The graduate students I teach in Global Thought at Columbia University are so at ease with the reality of the interconnected world. They have a truly capacious sense of their local communities. I learned a lot. Thanks to my former students Telma Viale, Junjie Ren, Zohra, and Rasmus!









My favorite quote about art, from none other than Bill Russell a Basketball legend: “if you can take something levels that few others can reach, then what you are doing becomes art.”The New York Times 8/1

Historian here to remind you that when the student body was predominantly white, world-class public universities like Berkeley charged no tuition. Today's student debt is a product of underfunding of education right as integration began to take place. dailycal.org/2014/12/22/his…

Pakistan’s Biblical Floods and the Case for Climate Reparations | The New Yorker Mohammed Hanif newyorker.com/news/annals-of…


What the Coconut Tree meme says about Kamala Harris' Indian heritage asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/What-t… via Nikkei Asia