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New article is out and it's open access: 'The Architecture of Laila's World in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column' in @southasiajsas On: home, women's space, social architecture, Partition It's a nugget of my PhD thesis: doi.org/10.1080/008564…

Bengali artists against authoritarianism. নিজেদের মতে নিজেদের গান

One week to go! 💚 ✨ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 iash.ed.ac.uk/event/1725-202…

Join us on 14th April for a multimedia symposium! We will have paper presentations, musical performances, film screenings, and a walking tour to boot! Register here: iash.ed.ac.uk/event/1725-202… @tgifatima @IASH_Edinburgh

Discover Indian fiction books by the place it is set in! 👏 citiesinfiction.com/maps

If there is one thing you read today, let it be this. Umar Khalid spoke to Apeksha Priyadarshini from jail. "What I really want those, who express solidarity with me, to understand is that I reject the victimhood that I’m often identified with by others. There is pain in this seemingly endless wait, indeed; but there is also a beauty to this pain. I’m content where I am, in spite of what I’m being subjected to, because there is beauty in knowing that this is not about me alone. My incarceration is not merely to target me as an individual; it is to teach my fellow comrades a lesson that anyone who dares to ask uncomfortable questions to the powers that be can, and will be, forcefully silenced without respite. Therefore, this battle that I’m fighting, too, is larger than me as an individual. This is why the language in which those, who believe in what I have to say, speak of me and others in this case needs to change. Ours is a battle for a vision—of a time in our society when some will not be more equal than others. This conviction is what makes this pain bearable. It’s almost Christ-like, or Bhagat Singh-like. Both sacrificed their lives for causes of the oppressed and there is beauty in knowing that this is the lineage of which I’m a part, in a history that shall be penned for the future." outlookindia.com/national/voice…

Two weeks to go! "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨ Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/12… @absentpresences @IASH_Edinburgh

🚨 CfP Alert! 🚨 Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @IASH_Edinburgh, @absentpresences and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia", on 14 April 2026. Details below ⬇️

Organising this symposium to mark the 3rd centenary of the Scotland-South Asia connection; please circulate the CfP to relevant scholars who might be working on similar themes. And keep an eye out for the registration link to attend this event! Find all the details in thread:

Indian English Literature Drive Heavily curated. Quality over Quantity. Novels | Short Stories | Poetry | Plays | Memoirs | Zeitgeist | Non-Fiction | Speeches Enjoy IEL. P.S.: This took me months, didn't it? drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Happy to share that my critical edition of Begum Sarbuland's brilliant Urdu travelogue, Dunya Aurat ki Nazar me.n, is now on sale. You've read the English translation, now enjoy her wit and insight in the original Urdu! Available here: dillikitabghar.com/product/dunya-….

After 5 years in jail w/o trial, Umar Khalid was today denied bail by Delhi HC in the Delhi riots case invoking terror charges Revisit @betwasharma’s reports that show how the case against him & other anti-CAA activists is built on falsehoods, conjecture & political intent 🧵

Decolonial-Debrahmanical-Deimperial (D3) Research Network Read w/us - open.substack.com/pub/d3research… Connect w/us - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

📢 It's that time of year again - we're so excited to share the #CfP for our 7th annual seminar series. We have expanded our date range and changed up the format! Please send an abstract + bio to materialcultureresearcheca@ed.ac.uk by 5 Sept. We look forward to hearing from you!

@ClaudiaSterbini @BAVS_UK Congo!!

It was great to attend @BAVS_UK last week in Oxford! Incredible conference and beautiful people! And particularly excited to have won the runner-up prize for best PhD paper!!! Thank you BAVS!

@champa_tales Thank you Rashmi!

@absentpresences Congratulations. I love your work!

#PhDone and how! As good or bad a time as any to announce this I suppose. Dissertation on architecture, agency, and gendered networks of channeling power. Hope to share the tome soon.

@imohf Thanks Feroza!

@absentpresences Congratulations 🎊

@aqeelsarwar Thanks

@absentpresences Congrats

@FatimaFarAway Thanks! Hopefully soon

@sohinichat Thanks Sohini!

@karachikaddoo Thanks Fizza!

@absentpresences many congrats!!! looking forward to reading what comes next 🤗