reading wisdom, getting wise 😁🤓😋 #TBR

Reading Independence 🇮🇳 ✊🏽

"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947 🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽

#Surdas #सूरदास ❤️

Bullhe Shah // Bhagat Singh // Faiz Ahmed Faiz #ReadingInquilab 📖+✊🏽=🔥

#TBR 🤓😋🤗

Heart Lamp @BanuMushtaq 🤓😋🤗 #TBR

Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗

#TBR 🤓😋🤗

Book haul... 🤓😋🤗

📚 An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory 🎓 Prof. Sreenath V.S, IIT Madras 🗓️ Mon, Jul 21 - Fri, Sep 12 2025 🔗 onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs132/...

Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️

“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.” ~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930 🙄😒😞😶

I'm Sherlock'ed 🧐 ❤️ #TBR

#thekashmirsyllabus A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir. Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art. Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥

Márquez 🫶🏽

It was not witches who burned. It was women. Women who were seen as Too beautiful Too outspoken Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously) Too loud Too quiet Women who danced, Women who sang or anything else, really. It was not witches who burned. It was women. — Fia Forsström #Holika

~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖

#TBR ♀️+📖=🔥

On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.

Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, offers Online Basic Courses in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, and Punjabi. Duration: 12 Weeks Credit Point: 4

✊🏽+🔥 = 📖 #BhagatSingh #KarlMarx 🤓 ❤️

There was a time... I read 80-100 books a year but academia has killed the joy (understandable) and attention span (weird).. So, I'm slowly nursing my mind into reading for the language, the sentence; for the story, the pleasure. #ReadingGoals2025

“It is one of the legacies of colonialism that the economic relations among developing countries are far less developed than the economic links between developing and developed countries.” — Manmohan Singh, 1972

South Asian Literature(s) #TBR 🤓 🤤 😋 🤗

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: The books I read — I like to buy.” 🤓😋🤗

brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗

These are the books that publishers have offered for free this week, November 29-December 5. For a more extensive reading list, please visit, 🔗 librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and... 📖+🍉=❤️ #read #palestine

Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 - December 5). 🔗 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f... 📖+🍉=♥️ #read #palestine

Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University SEMINAR SERIES 📋 The Archive is Dead, Long Live the Archive; Hindi Archives, and the History of Writing 🗓️ December 4, 3pm IST 📍Room no. 326, CHS JNU, Delhi #SouthAsia #Languages #Histories #Hindi #Writing #Archive

There was a time... I read 80-100 books a year but academia has killed the joy (understandable) and attention span (weird).. So, I'm slowly nursing my mind into reading for the language, the sentence; for the story, the pleasure. #ReadingGoals

Young Scholars' Forum @Colombo Institute #SouthAsia

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

#TBR #Colonialism #Postcolonialism #Empire 🤓 😋

I'm organising a #ReadingGroup to dissect the field(s) of #Colonial, #Postcolonial and/or #Decolonial. We'll start next year, in January 2nd/3rd week, and meet fortnightly or monthly. To Join, respond with short bio and statement of interest. 🔗 forms.gle/DULZnPUXGr8k...

A starter pack of/for folks (academics, researchers, students, authors, activists etc.) working on Caste, Kinship and Ethnicity within critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Comment or DM with bio to be added or to suggest others. 🔗 go.bsky.app/A5Rb8tm

A starter pack of/for folks (academics, researchers, students, authors, journals etc.) working on Urdu, Persian & Arabic languages and literatures, as interconnected/overlapping literary traditions as well as distinct in their own right. Comment/DM to be added or suggest. 🔗 go.bsky.app/2Y9dnAZ

I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list. go.bsky.app/To2zEEL

On Faiz’s anniversary, this audio story from a year ago. youtu.be/1kSpjzgwe0c?...

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, students, writers, activists, organizations etc. whose work focuses on colonialism(s), and responses to/aftermath of, within critical, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. To be added or to suggest others, comment or DM. go.bsky.app/MK34WCH

🎈🥳Join Pavan Kumar Malreddy to celebrate the book launch of his publication “Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” including a symposium with prominent speakers organised by the research initiative ConTrust. Participation via Zoom possible!

This map is genuinely terrifying to me.

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, archaeologists, archivists, students, heritage enthusiats, libraries, presses etc. whose work focuses on the ‘Histories’ of South Asia. To be added, removed, or to suggest others, comment or message, @keshavbansal.bsky.social 🔗 go.bsky.app/UEFyL7m

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, writers, translators, students, libraries, presses etc. whose work focuses on the languages and literatures of South Asia. To be added, removed, or suggest others, comment or message, @keshavbansal.bsky.social 🔗 go.bsky.app/PXuKt2L

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies. Please help us build this list. Suggestions very welcome. go.bsky.app/xCeFhi