Obja Borah Hazarika

Friendly reminder that the United Nations seems to exist only so that rich kids of IB schools can play Model UN

Diburgarh University International Literature Festival 2026 ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2026/02/25/dib…

Set up pointless meetings months in advance then cancel on the day to give your colleagues a dopamine hit

You: “if it’s not too much trouble, could you please, possibly, email me a pdf of your article, so long as it’s no bother…” Me: “I will mail, fax, email, and hand deliver you a copy, and read it to you over the phone”

Academic relaxation ladder: Undergrad: relaxes from homework by doing extracurriculars PhD student: relaxes from research by doing homework Professor: relaxes from admin by doing research

Djokovic has basically gone from being a tennis bad boy to becoming the last source of millennial hope. If Djokovic is still playing tennis maybe you and I still have a chance.

Conference orgs: we invite you to High Tea Partha: existence of a high tea implies the existence of a low tea Dipesh: milk tea is a western construct Sai Deepak: -too afraid to anger the public- Spivak: fbdvsg Homi: ghshpk Kaviraj/Nandy: we should make this an edited volume

Low confidence = please don’t read my draft; it’s terrible High confidence = please read my draft; it’s terrible

my anxiety has a loophole that if somebody else is equally or more uncomfortable i develop the sudden ability to DO THE THING. i can’t go and ask for more ketchup for myself but if my friend wants more ketchup i’m out of my seat in a second

i really cannot be friends with picky eaters because it somehow always correlates to bigger problems and character flaws

please use "okay" or "okie" instead of "ok" because okay is happy, okie is cute and ok is scary, mean and evil

i do not endorse calling stem fields the inhumanities because this is the sort of language that would make stem people cry if they knew how to read

After your MA you'd get an urge to start a PhD, it's very important that you get a job instead

Academic flexes that I dislike: 1/🧵

A person usually hates you for 1 of 4 reasons: 1 They want to be you, 2 They hate themselves, 3)They see you as a threat 4) They "hate the way other's Love you".

Adding citations of people who might review the paper

When you moan about admin, you’re channeling ancient wisdom