Huh, turns out united opposition swiftly and decisively rebutting would-be authoritarians works better than taking a couple weeks and hoping it works out for the best.

🧵 Why do “Indian concerns” on the situation in Bangladesh sound more like “Hindu concerns”? Is India’s South Asia policy now based on Hindu homeland politics? Why are most Indian foreign policy analysts not bothered about this precipitous shift? Are they ok with this? (1/n)

Shared some of my (rough) ideas on how to do better collaborative borderland research in #SoutheastAsia at ANU Southeast Asia Student Research Symposium, ANU, Canberra.

Prof Evelyn Goh opening the SE Asia Student Research Symposium at ANU, Canberra. This year’s iteration is centred around country vs regional scholarship in #SoutheastAsia.

On the left, a progressive US newspaper On the right, a progressive Israeli newspaper

Kenyan senator Richard Onyonka accuses #Adani group of 'state capture' in #Kenya. Interesting term, most recently rooted in the South African experience with the Gupta family & Jacob Zuma. Also, an apt term for India today, where agencies seem to be acting at the behest of specific corporates.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant & Hamas leader, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri. Technically, if any of them land up in an ICC Member State, they should be arrested & handed to The Hague. www.reuters.com/world/icc-is...

What are the chances that modi will steadily abandon adani if latter becomes too much of a liability? Rebuking the Canadians is one thing, but America is a different ball game.

“orchestrated an elaborate scheme to bribe Indian government officials to secure contracts worth billions of dollars & Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani & Vneet S. Jaain lied about the bribery scheme as they sought to raise capital from U.S. & international investors.” www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Criminal behaviour tbh

Monsoons have arrived in #Singapore. Finally, it’ll rain all 7 days of the week instead of 6.5.

Free speech warrior Elon Musk joining forces with Ancient Democracy Bharat 👍🏽

Don’t forget who has been at the forefront of BJP’s toxic electoral campaign in #Jharkhand – Assam CM, Himanta Biswa Sarma. He went out of his way to graft #Assam’s anti-minority, anti-“foreigner” discourse into Jharkhand. Hence, you see toxic ads like that. indianexpress.com/article/indi...

Twitter has lost its plot so hard that people are just casually calling on the Indian government to bomb their own country from the air

Israel murdered 46 people in Gaza today.

Annual pilgrimage trip to this app has been made. Looks much cleaner than last year. 👍🏽

As the coup in Myanmar completes three years, my deep dive into the various systemic and ideological factors that continue to shape India’s pro-junta position: barbedwires.substack.com/p/three-year...

Nearly 2 years ago, The Gambia, a small west African country, dragged Myanmar to the ICJ for its genocidal campaign against the Rohingya (& successfully secured provisional measures). Today, South Africa is doing the same to Israel for its mass murder of Palestinians. Africa 🙌🏽

The U.S. declares that Bangladesh’s elections were “not free or fair.”

We’re seeing a new kind of political capitalism in India today where willing corporates are able to use the rhetoric produced by the regime on social media to generate new profit cycles. Low cost, high output model of crony capitalism fed by a radicalised consumer base.

Boeing's mid-flight blowout a big problem for company

Yet again, the #Myanmar junta bombs its own civilians – this time a Church in Kanan village near Khampat (Sagaing Region), right next to the India-Myanmar border. 11 reported killed, incl children. India calls itself a “Vishwa-Mitra” (global friend), but won’t use its leverage to stop these crimes.

Quick roundup of all my pieces from 2023 (subscribe to my Substack on barbedwires.substack.com for more): Read here: barbedwires.substack.com/p/year-in-re...

Merry Christmas to one and all! May the land where Christ was born, today occupied and tormented by a marauding army, be free forever. May the light shine upon Gaza, West Bank, Manipur, Myanmar, and everywhere else. ✨

In this piece, Suraj Gogoi & I analyse a recent Gauhati HC order which offers an indictment of the #ForeignersTribunals regime, but then goes on to introduce more arbitrariness in the system by asking the state gov to review past orders. #Assam #citizenship #NRC scroll.in/article/1060...

#London after nine years 🥲

In Manipur’s Churachandpur, a Brutal, Final Homecoming for 87 People. thewire.in/rights/chura...

Here to announce that X is down, but hoping to stay for more 🤝🏽