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@Muneeb_soanth and I write for @Himalistan that India and China's engagement in #Afghanistan is becoming a geopolitical competition for influence and regional primacy, forcing New Delhi to calibrate its Afghan policy. himalmag.com/politics/afgha…

Modi should have thought about all this before travelling to Tel Aviv and offering his unstinted support to Bibi in future conflicts.

We @StanfordHistory are excited to host Prof. Tiraana Bains from Brown University for this *public lecture* on April 30 at 4:30 pm in Stanford's History Department: "Imperial Designs: The Origins of British India, c. 1750-1800." Details in the link below! history.stanford.edu/events/imperia…

Berkeley folks, I'll be giving a talk relating to the 250th anniversary of the US at UC Berkeley at 5 pm on April 27. Do come if you can! Registration information here: Apr 27, Priya Satia | The Eclipsed Republicanism of the Era of Conquest events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/3183…

15.2% unemployment in India in the age group of 15-29 years. This is the official data. Imagine the actual figure.

Best and clearest graphic I’ve seen explaining #delimitation and its significance, in today’s @the_hindu

Mauritus foreign minister is saying far more than what Modi, Jaishankar or the MEA spokesperson has had the courage to say. In this interview to @suhasinih

Coming to Screen Southasia in April 2026, filmmaker Anam Abbas takes viewers behind the scenes with the women organisers of 2020’s Aurat March in Pakistan. Sign up to watch from 1-8 April and stay tuned for details about a director Q&A at the end of its run : ow.ly/uKhr50Yytzn

📢📢 Hiring: Research Assistant in Applied Political Economy I am looking for an RA to support ongoing research in applied political economy on topics of state surveillance and political violence.

Today, for @thewire_in my analysis and reflections on Rajasthan's New Disturbed Areas Act. The false bogey of Land Jihad comes of age. Read here. thewire.in/communalism/th…

Stanford Law Review Online is seeking short essays for a special collection on Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Civil Rights. Submissions open April 3-May 1, 2026. Scholars, practitioners, industry experts, and policymakers welcome! review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl…

Srinath Raghavan offers a closely argued and sharp critique of how India's "mealy-mouthed" response to the war on Iran is going to have (negative) consequences for India in the short and long-run. Do read one of the few independent assessments to be made of the Indian position from Modi's visit to Israel on the eve of the war to its response to the sinking of the Iranian frigate returning after a fleet review in Visakhapatnam. #Iran #US #Israel #India theindiaforum.in/international-… @TheIndiaForum

IR people, the reboot of the Making Identity Count (MIC) project website is finally here! MIC is a qualitative and quantitative database of identity discourses of major world powers from 1950-2010. (1/2): makingidentitycount.com #IRTwitter

Solid piece by a retired Indian Navy officer who also taught a course on International Law of Military Operations (ILMO) at NLSIU.

The fact that all western countries has condemned Iran's strikes and crackdown on protestors, but not US-Israel strikes that killed 85, mostly schoolgirls in Iran should tell us where they actually stand.

So Sriram Raghavan tells @PragyaSingh of @thewire_in that he was not happy with the disclaimer inserted at the end of the film about Brig Nisar's being an an "exceptional incident" and that the "neighbouring country is not trustworthy at all". youtu.be/0trCgTIUDpA?si…

Koi Mujhko Naa Kaate | By: 56 Productions #Humour

Happy to announce the 1st ever ISA conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc isanet.org/Conferences/SA…

📣 Calling scholars! Submit your proposals for the ISA-SAWP 2026 Conference — South Asia in a Changing International Order, taking place Aug 6–8, 2026 at the historic Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Deadline: Feb 16, 2026. More info ➡️ isanet.org/Conferences/SA…

Any Delhi-based scholars (or in Delhi over the next two weeks) on my TL working on Indian textiles/fashion—history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, design, media studies, STS? Grateful for leads.