@KalathmikaN Kala! Step. Away. From. The. Archives. (Also maybe keep saying this back to me till December?!)
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Antara Datta
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Antara Datta
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Historian of South Asia. Mother. Cat person.
CCU-DEL-OXF-BOS-LHR-BOS Katılım Mart 2009
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@IBJIYONGI @notesnthemargin @ChisomoWrites As someone who did a US PhD, the UK person on my committee was alarmed at being contacted by me and was baffled as to why I wanted feedback. In the UK format for a viva (and this student didn’t have one) you have an external and an internal for your viva.
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I’m not feeling the attempts to Twitter villain this even though the financial expenditure justifications feel off putting to some. To allow a PhD student to carry on for 4 years without raising more than a minor concern is a dereliction of duty on the part of the supervisor.
Lakshmi Balakrishnan@lakshmipriyab07
I appreciate some of the questions raised by the public after @BBCNews piece. Since I believe this is a public interest matter, I have decided to share the supporting statement of @QueensCollegeOx for the appeals process. I hope this answers some of the questions.
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@IBJIYONGI @ChisomoWrites If it’s not her viva then her assessors might be internal faculty. I have been on PhD ‘upgrade’ and annual review panels. It is very very rare (and unfair) to tell a student in their fourth year that their main research question is untenable.
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@HEROwens18 @csosjournal @PollyWilkins Hannah! This is brilliant. I read it yesterday and I am 100% going to cite it. It says the things I am saying about European/Chinese/Malayan refugees in India in the 1940s (but more eloquently!)
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Out now in @csosjournal with @PollyWilkins
‘Sustaining and complicating hierarchies of race and class in humanitarian protection’
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@sandiptodg @itihaasnaama It’s an episode of the Netflix series on Bollywood wives. The whole thing was…baffling. The SRCC bit was the most confusing but there is a Charles Dickens/Elif Shafak bit where I laughed so loudly I startled the cat.
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@sandiptodg @itihaasnaama Shamefully I know what Rohit is talking about. I fear it may be too low brow for you.
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@gupta_diya But for instance when they are sick it’s a lot easier. And you are guaranteed a chunk of sleep at night (except for my beral who wanted to tell me about her life at 5 am this morning…).
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@gupta_diya Erm…12 years later…! I do have more thinking space now that the boys are older. But it’s sometimes easier to solve a 2 year old’s worries than a teenager’s. But I am still perma-tired. And whenever I need writing space everyone wants to tell me about their life.
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@Lishanw @udithaumesh India doesn’t allow remote voting. It allows you to register as an NRI voter but you have to be back physically to vote. (At least the last time I checked).
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@udithaumesh Only country.. probably not
Quick search of regional countries
Allowed - India, Maldives, Indonesia, Singapore
Not allowed - Pakistan, Bangladesh
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@udithaumesh India doesn’t either. hcilondon.gov.in/page/nri-votin…
You can come back and vote but there is no postal vote etc.
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@hebagowayed @sadafjaffer Oh be prepared for them to know random local kids at the playground and for them to call you X’s mom. And that you will save other people’s phone number with a reminder of whose parents they are (because you WILL get kids/parents mixed up).
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@hebagowayed Finally: if something doesn’t feel right don’t second guess yourself. Even the best daycares and schools get things wrong. So trust your instinct.
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@hebagowayed Son no 2 cried the first week in daycare but when he got to school, walked in without looking backwards. And I gave him a note too and on day 2 he said, ‘let’s not put bits of paper in my lunch box okay?’
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@laurenbanko @PollyWilkins I had a student call me out for putting the week on Fanon in the week before the holidays. It wasn’t deliberate. But she pointed out no one comes, everyone has written their essay. It did make me stop and think. Designing a syllabus is a profoundly political process.
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@laurenbanko @PollyWilkins But also all the people who are saying smugly that teaching should be apolitical. HOW?! What you put in your syllabus is a political choice. Who you leave out. Even when you teach certain things.
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@PaperWhispers @_snehakrishnan In a different tweet she says well maybe people will say that her choosing to teach the sonata a ‘canonical’ form in Western classical music is political- haha. Erm. Yes it is. And it is equally political what you see as the canon and you don’t teach.
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Yes, also white people often claim academia is apolitical in order to silence critics of white supremacy and that in itself is a political position.
Eileen 🇵🇸 A. Fradenburg Joy@EileenAJoy
1/ This is the most persistent myth of academia I have encountered in my career: there is no disinterested position from which to objectively study/teach history, culture, etc. You have to be white to believe this. The medieval university we inherited was political & still is.
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@MargotTudor @vmv71241 And before I stop ranting as someone who actually truly loves listening to Western classical music, maybe I can point people to the work of Reena Esmail who has written some truly amazing pieces. This is incredible: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArzRqK…
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@MargotTudor @vmv71241 But it also taps into this belief that some academic disciplines are ‘apolitical’ and what is taught in these classes is just ‘facts’. As if the design of most music theory modules that prioritise a certain form of ‘classical’ music (aka Western) isn’t in itself a choice.
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