Piali Roy
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I write. I tweet. I retweet. Home & the World with a Bengali twist. [email protected]
Madame Blavatsky — godmother of the #newage movement — co-founded modern Theosophy that combined mystical and magical beliefs. @PialiRoy delves into this enigmatic figure of the late 19th century in this archive episode of IDEAS: cbc.ca/1.6478885 @jiddix #Theosophy
NEW | Gyanendra Pandey’s book on men at home is built on the back-breaking labour of women’s unseen work. It’s a consequential but flawed study of masculinity, haunted by the absence it tries to fill. @PanchaliRay3 ✍️ frontline.thehindu.com/books/book-rev…
Opinion: Not only is food more expensive, it is also becoming ultraprocessed garbage theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
11th-great grandfather came on the Mayflower 10th-great grandfather founded Hartford 7th- great grandfather served in the 3rd Massachusetts Provincial Congress alongside Sam Adams/Hancock. 6th great granduncles served as minutemen in Lex & Concord Proud Heritage American
FYI… There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren’t sick.
Team Cuomo has gotta settle on what they’re calling this group, which is not Southeast Asians.
Holy cow…who is running Andrew Cuomo’s campaign and how do they not understand the difference between South Asians and Southeast Asians.
It's so nice having a bunch of desi grad students in Hawai'i. Makes the islands feel more homey to be greeted with subho bijoya, happy Gandhi jayanti, and wishes for Dussehra. One also shared this lovely 1912 Gaganendranath painting of Durga immersion. Happy festival, all.
Exclusive: Doug Ford called speed cam tickets a “cash grab” dinging drivers for a couple km/h over the limit. For the first time, the Star can report the actual threshold is higher — at least in Toronto + large municipalities nearby. thestar.com/news/gta/what-… via @TorontoStar
#OnThisDay in 1868, a massacre took place in Opelousas, Louisiana, one of the worst outbreaks of violence during Reconstruction. When some Black Americans attempted to join the Democratic Party, the Knights of the White Camelia (a white supremacist organization) rushed in to drive them out. School teacher Emerson Bentley was one of the few white Republicans in the region. He had come to Louisiana to help Black Americans vote and find jobs. The 18-year-old was also an editor for the Republican newspaper, The St. Landry Progress. Displeased by their depiction, a mob severely beat Bentley. A group of Black Americans moved to rescue him, not knowing that he had already escaped. Of the 29 black men captured by the mob, 27 of them were killed, and the bloodshed continued for weeks. The death toll reached 250, the vast majority of them Black Americans. Through the Opelousas Massacre and similar acts of violence, “lynching became routinized in Louisiana, a systematic way by which whites sought to assert white supremacy in response to African-American resistance,” historian Michael Pfeifer told Smithsonian magazine. The years following Reconstruction led to a vicious wave of lynchings, not only in the South, but across the U.S. mississippitoday.org/2024/09/28/186…
Bibi Harjit Kaur has been deported back to India, Sikh Coalition shares, adding that they are "sickened and angered by ICE’s additional abuse of this 73-year-old grandmother in the course of her detention and deportation." She had been detained by ICE during a routine check-in.
A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster’s collusion with scalpers to resell hundreds of thousands of tickets to sports and music events at inflated prices forms the backbone of a new U.S. lawsuit against the world’s biggest ticketing company. trib.al/sXKfIrp
