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Jigisha Bhattacharya

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PhD @englishunicam with @Gates_Cambridge; studying Empires prisons & print/art; ex-JNU; convener @CambridgePoco; writes on culture & politics

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I can’t get that Haka out of my head. Some people think power is just having a title. Power is something you can feel and see. It’s showing up when your people need you and standing your ground even if it might seem scary. A beautiful thing to witness.


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Everytime traditional media runs out of news they call Narayana Murthy for an interview and ask him about work life balance.


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The real way. The Maori Way

Meanwhile, New Zealand's Parliament:



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If someone could remind me that I’m capable and will indeed finish this godforsaken PhD, that would be great.


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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, is inviting applications for the posts of Associate Professor. Total number of positions is 3 (three). For Details, Click csds.in/associate_prof…

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Excited to share that me and @Jigisha_Be are organinzing a panel for #ECSAS25 (Heidelberg)! Our panel is about 'Registers of discipline and resistance: politics of imprisonment in South Asian prisons'. Consider to apply (ecsas2025.com/call-for-panel…) and circulate!

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My only opinion on the whole Oxford-PhD fiasco is a milquetoast take which should be uncontroversial: All education from kindergarten to Masters should be 100% free for everyone, and Doctoral research should be recognised for what it is- productive labour. Therefore, all doctoral


Happening today! Come join us!!

Excited to invite you to our second Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar for Michaelmas Term! Join us on Oct 17, 5-7 pm, SR 24 with Prof. Rita Barnard (UPenn). See you there!

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Happening today @CambridgePoco @englishunicam

Excited to invite you to our second Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar for Michaelmas Term! Join us on Oct 17, 5-7 pm, SR 24 with Prof. Rita Barnard (UPenn). See you there!

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Happening today @engfac @CambridgePoco

Excited to invite you to the first PARL seminar of the Michaelmas Term: "Contestations of Decoloniality: A Search for a New Ethics of Performance" with Professor Rustom Bharucha. The seminar will be held on Thursday, 10th October, from 5-7 PM in SR-24. See you all there!

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A handwritten copy of Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, given to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles for safekeeping before he attempted to escape over the Pyrenees Here is the Angelus Novus fragment

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In Solidarity with Prisoner No 626710

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There's a "reclaim the night" in every neighbourhood, every working class para and every housing complex tonight, far beyond Kolkata. All middle class hypocrisy and selective rage notwithstanding, I've never seen anything like this here. Never.


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Out next month: written through Dr Teltumbde's own incarceration by an establishment that fails to understand just how the fight for justice endures, this book is a powerful—and peaceful—reminder of Dr Ambedkar's radical and iconoclastic vision for a free country.

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The right to lecture: a core Western value.

Imagine thinking you had a right to lecture Nagasaki on how to commemorate the slaughter of its citizens. Imagine thinking bombing was ever a-political.

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If only development economists had an inch of Drèze's moral courage....

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Earlier this week, we sent off the final files for @WasafiriMag’s forthcoming 40th anniversary issue on Futurisms. Don’t miss this milestone issue on speculative and alternative futures, personal and planetary futures, feminist and fragile futures +++ wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…


This needs to be out there.

Back in 2002, I worked for a few months in the Grameen Bank as an intern. Was able to see closely their operations in two separate sites. What it did was leverage existing hierarchies and power structures in the village to ensure compliance. (1/2)



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