Last chance to late pledge! We'll be turning this campaign off at EOD -- this book is at the printers & copies will get mailed out in a couple of weeks. You can also donate copies to the @freelibsnet.bsky.social . www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... After that, pre-order from our site!

Bangalore shows :) At Odds With Even Love - Queer Stories and Traditional Songs Abhinaya - dance and music, innate reciprocity between sound and body. #bangalore #blrhubba #wipaltfest #dance #music

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

'At Odds With Even Love' comes to Bangalore Book your spot! 5th a d 6th Dec Alliance Française and Bangalore International Center. An evening of queer stories and amorous poem-songs from the Indian subcontinent. We also write letters to our beloveds! #Bangalore #performance #queer #loveletters

Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid

A moving essay by Dr. Omar Kasmani! As he quotes, "dil aise shahr ke pāmāl ho jaane kā manzar bhūlne meñ/ abhī kuchh din lageñge"

Re-upping this as there have been more and more ethnomusicologists joining BlueSky. Please let me know if you want to be added to the list / think of anyone who should be on this list. :)

The Diwan e Muhandis was written by Ustad Ahmad's son Lutfullah Muhandis and in one verse describes his father as the architect of #TajMahal and #RedFort "These two represent only one aspect of his many sided genius, And constitute just one pearl from his mine of pearls"

As we ramp out to 2025, good to hear this (in re: University and our task)

If you happen to be a 19th/20th century musicologist who is on the market, please consider applying! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/559...

"Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created a starter pack of South Asian artists, authors, academics, activists, and orgs. I’ll keep it updated—DM me or reply if you or someone you know should be added! ✨" go.bsky.app/GGd6dxU

SlaveVoyages Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Merced #skyststorians 🗃️ www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo...

A reminder, if you work on ethnomusicology and related fields and want to be added to this stater pack please comment or dm :) #ethnomusicology

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇 I am Bala. "If you stopped stammering, you could make something out of your life!" "Stop sobbing, you're 14"

As I lay sick this week at home, I am busy with maestro ilayaraja! I saw this ad and recognized the music from Ilayaraja’s BGM from the Tamil movie Veedu (1988). all home themed! What a smart repurposing! It’s also featured as ‘Do Anything’ in Ilayaraja’s album #howtonameit #ilayaraja #veedu #tamil

Created a starter pack for Ethnomusicology studies. Please let me know if you want to add to the list. go.bsky.app/9c1wupA #Ethnomusicology #CrossCulturalmusicology #Culturalmusicology #Musicstudies #Starterpack

Created a starter pack for Ethnomusicology studies. Please let me know if you want to add to the list. go.bsky.app/9c1wupA #Ethnomusicology #CrossCulturalmusicology #Culturalmusicology #Musicstudies #Starterpack

Is there already a starter pack for ethnomusicology? #ethnomusicology

So excited for @kunalpurohit.bsky.social to be presenting at the colloquium series at the Center for South Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz. @ucsantacruz.bsky.social

The cold is Colding, though i think the worst is behind me. Not me looking up rando websites! I'm on stage three! Also as I grow older it takes me longer to recover! 10s< 20s< 30s

Not a starter pack but peeps to follow: @jairofunez.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @chdesportes.bsky.social @ikabir.bsky.social @themrise.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @sandyosullivan.bsky.social @drblackdeer.bsky.social @pashamkhan.bsky.social More soon

Should I go to Delhi next week?

I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6

How would you translate 'saayal' from tamil meaning - form/ features/ shadow/ likeness/ resemblance In the context of 'அவள் சாயல்' (her features)? #tamil #translation #poetry

Excerpt (of an excerpt)... Glad to be out of grad student existential dread (post-candidacy/ pre-fieldwork) and translated excerpts of five Telugu padams into English for a friend's paper this morning. Some lines are poruttam(just right) while I sleep over the others. #translation #telugu #poetry

For anyone who needs to hear it, be confident. You're good at what you do. It took me too long to realize how strong a chemist I am. Many students passed through my courses, especially #womeninstem, lacking confidence in themselves. #STEM can be full of hurdles and adversity, but you can do it. 🧪🥽👩‍🔬

Please welcome: 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕥, out now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. "Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." - Bandcamp "Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...

"BIRTHPLACE WITH BURIED STONES" – Meena Alexander I first came across this poem as an opening to one of my advisors' essays on the social text. I've been moved since. #poetry #MeenaAlexander

Hello! I am Bala. I am a musician and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Music Department at UC Santa Cruz. I work on the oral traditions of music across the Indian subcontinent, with an emphasis on the politics of aesthetics, sacred songs, South Asian performing traditions, caste, gender, and sexuality.