Raj Kaithwar

The real danger of this workshop is that once you’ve experienced feedback this rigorous and insightful, everything else feels like a compromise. If you are working on this subject, very highly recommended.

RoundTable India was first place which gave space to my writing & long before I knew how to talk critically on caste-- Kuffir's ferocious caste analysis gave so many of us a voice. A true Ambedkarite icon. He's been very ill for a while & needs support. Plz share/contribute. Jai Bhim🙏🏽 milaap.org/fundraisers/su…

Happy to share that my research article "New materialism, Whiteness and the politics of vitality: Rethinking activity/passivity in critical security studies" has been published in @SecDialogue (open access). Link for the article: doi.org/10.1177/096701….

⁉️Should nonhumans including animals, rivers, and robots be considered full citizens?🐎🌊🤖 In this week's lecture of Citizens, States & Societies unit convenor @Hans_Asenbaum & tutor @witsbump draw on their research to bring nuance and complexity to this issue. @UCschoPES

🙌That's a wrap for Citizens, States & Societies 2024! Today, unit convenor @Hans_Asenbaum delivered the final lecture on key learnings from statehood to cyborg citizenship. A big thanks to the teaching team for sharing their research insights and to tutor @witsbump! 👏

Been 8 years since this DM to @anupamachopra. Expected a contact or two at best, but instead she roped me into @FilmCompanion, a place I've called home since. So proud of the film institution it became, especially its platforming of the written word. I'll sorely miss it...

#Forthcoming Dalit Ecologies explores the ecological experiences, histories, and perspectives integrated within #Dalit writing, art, and culture. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

@ChinmayTumbe Thanks a lot :)

@witsbump As I understood, any visa would do. Embassy letter is key for Indian researchers.

48K views on the 'Archives on India' map within three weeks. 🙏🏽 Now starting a #ArchivesOnIndia thread series profiling some of the archives I've visited over the years, starting with the most recent visit. 1) National Archives of Bangladesh, Dhaka 🧵1/6

@ChinmayTumbe Does one need to take a research visa to visit the archives or a normal visa does the work too? I’ve had some difficulty in getting a clarity on it.

To access the archives, Indian researchers need a permission letter from the Indian embassy in Dhaka, which in my case, happened to be super-prompt. Separately, there is also a High Commission of India Library in Dhaka.

A peek into the Everest (Khumbu) region & what #climatechange & an increasing number of mountaineers are doing the eco-fragile Sagarmatha National Park where Mt #Everest & seven other peaks are located. Read full ground report: shrturl.app/iLAXHx @MongabayIndia @NFSJnepal

📢On International Archives Day (June 9), IIMA Archives is delighted to launch "Archives on India", a digital public good that lists and maps 500+ archives and repositories. A must-see for history-buffs!! 🧵1/5 google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

We're ending the week with a short film to look back at the 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School that took place in #Canberra last February. Check it out 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=esT6AN…

@britishlibrary Opening of the library’s archival collection to new readers 🙃

Happy #SpringEquinox! It’s officially the first day of spring – here’s to warmer, brighter days ☀️ What are you most looking forward to this spring?

HAPPENING NOW: Round 3 of PhD paper presentations. Raj Kaithwar @witsbump makes a case for the construction of non-anthropocentric assemblages. #DelDem2024

What a beautiful group! 🤩😍 I couldn't be happier about how the 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School turned out! Thank you to all the participants from across the 🌏 #DelDem2024 @DelDemUCan @UCBGL @UniCanberra

@shakshuka786 wohooo

Solidarity to everyone on a very difficult day. No legal setback is forever. We’ll all need to study the judgment(s) very carefully, and find spaces in the interstices to rebuild, going forward.

Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000 inpatients in northern Gaza. The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe. The lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance: those in intensive care or who rely on life support; patients undergoing hemodialysis; newborns in incubators; women with complications of pregnancy, and others all face imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated. Health facilities in northern Gaza continue to receive an influx of injured patients and are struggling to operate beyond maximum capacity. Some patients are being treated in corridors and outdoors in surrounding streets due to a lack of hospital beds. Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence. Hospital directors and health workers are now facing an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients amid a bombing campaign, put their own lives at risk while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger their patients’ lives while attempting to transport them to facilities that have no capacity to receive them. Overwhelmingly, caregivers have chosen to stay behind and honor their oaths as health professionals to “do no harm,” rather than risk moving their critically ill patients during evacuations. Health workers should never have to make such impossible choices. Additionally, tens of thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza are seeking refuge in open spaces in or around hospitals, treating them as havens from violence as well as to protect the facilities from potential attacks. Their lives, too, are at risk when health facilities are bombed. There are verified reports of deaths of health care workers and destruction of health facilities, which denies civilians the basic human right of life-saving health care and is prohibited under International Humanitarian Law. WHO calls for Israel to immediately reverse evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza, and calls for the protection of health facilities, health workers, patients, and civilians. WHO also reiterates its calls for the immediate and safe delivery of medical supplies, fuel, clean water, food, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, where life-saving assistance, including WHO health supplies that arrived earlier today, is currently awaiting entry.

A longer version of this article has been published on @ThisDayStories - check out the link below to know the story of the bridge that the British were not able to break down! thisday.app/story/the-delh…

What a fantastic issue by @epw_in on New Age Methods of Environmentalism and the questions of capitalism, caste and judiciary. epw.in/new-age-ecolog…