Sharad Pandian

Yooo this article by @n_hold is one of the best marxist intellectual history articles Ive read in a while. jhiblog.org/2025/12/29/thr…

Celebrate this coming May Day by listening to Disha Karnad Jani's interview with Edward Baring about his latest book, “Vulgar Marxism," and the relationship between Marxist theory and the practice of worker education. @DishaKJani @UChicagoPress web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2026/0…

Join leading historians and economists as they reflect on why the West forged ahead. This series explores colonialism, fossil fuels, science, and global shifts to reveal how the Great Divergence continues to shape our world today. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

Así se siente dar una clase de humanidades a adolescentes.

But how would he establish their age? Lutfullah Khan asked one man, who claimed to be young, if the man remembered a certain long-past event (the date of which Lutfullah knew). The Baluchi man claimed he did remember it, which was an indication he was much older then he claimed.

In 1971, India tried translating Census data into friendly volumes with some beautiful, hand-drawn graphics. But how does an overpopulation panic fit into this? We traced the history, catalogued ~700 graphics, and built an explorer full of comics & interactives. 🔗Link below!

A good occasion to read @tmbejan's fantastic 2023 article "Hobbes and Hats" (which explains why the little figures in the frontispiece of Leviathan are wearing hats): cambridge.org/core/services/…

1 in 3 people affected by extreme heat, at just ~ 1.5C hotter This number will explode in coming decades as huge parts of the world become effectively unliveable This, in turn, will drive starvation, conflict and migration on an unprecedented scale theguardian.com/environment/20…

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story nytimes.com/2026/02/13/mag…

I got so tired of trying to relate to my own “heritage” that I decided to relate solely to my prehistoric fish ancestors, and espouse their “culture”. Which, as I understand it, was mostly about mechanically patrolling a kind of abyss into which God’s absence could not penetrate

My take on how Hindutva relates to caste & regional identities as an afterword to a terrific special issue edited by KB Nielsen, A Gunvald Nilsen &S Selvaraj - whose intro is here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…. ⁦@CERI_SciencesPo⁩ ⁦@KingsIndiaInst⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I've been meaning to write this for *months*. I'm increasingly unhappy with the focus on epistemic injustice and cataloguing the various things that can go wrong in information exchange. But I suspect my reasons for being unhappy are different to the usual. Link in the reply.

Across India, 118 million adult women in 12 states now receive unconditional cash transfers from their governments, making India the site of one of the world's largest and least-studied social-policy experiments. My piece. bbc.com/news/articles/…

For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in @BrankoMilan's and @Sven_Beckert's brilliant new books. Thanks for @nickpaulharris for this work on this. newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/12/…

until quite recently, I had never thought much about fish, but now they're all I think about Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!

"The weather" is not small talk. Weather is vast, beautiful, and mysterious. We are never really ready to talk about the clouds

Princeton University alumna Mary Brunkow *91 has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.” bit.ly/46DDyW8