Happy Halloween 👻

Splendid evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social celebrating @wasafirimag.bsky.social Nee Writing Prize. Beautiful readings, Great Panel on Literary Translation and moving speeches from the winners! The panel of judges was chaired this year by Romesh Gunesekera - Congratulations, team!!!!

'I want to remove the fingers of accusation that are always directed at others, and instead hold up a mirror. Because at some point the other becomes the self.' Stella Gaitano’s #PENPinterPrize Writer of Courage 2025 speech is now in #PENTransmissions. pentransmissions.com/2025/10/17/s...

Leila Aboulela, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage. www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

What a wonderful resource.

We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...

Wasafiri is a magazine that thrives and survives from the support of our community. Deputy Chair of Trustees, @flostadt.bsky.social, speaks about Wasafiri as an extraordinary forum for writing and ideas from across the globe. Please consider subscribing to support our work: buff.ly/fKcSUXL

And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word

Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Join us for our first event in Cardiff on 22 July at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in collaboration with South Asian Heritage Trust for South Asian Heritage Month. More details and how to book via this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia... #RootsToRoutes #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social‬, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri. Read & access here:

A brilliant winner for a most spellbinding book in a glorious translation that sets a new benchmark- many congratulations 🥳

Fabulous Event coming up at @wasafirimag.bsky.social loved this novel so much!

If you're an early-career researcher (incl. PhD students) in contemporary literature, submit your unpublished work to the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize by 30 June for a chance to win publication, cash, academic mentoring, and a Wasafiri subscription. buff.ly/eBXbXTz

Watch @noreenmasud.bsky.social – Life Writing judge for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – talk about her own unconventional journey to becoming a memoirist, and what she's hoping to find in entries this year. Prize deadline is 30 June. buff.ly/QYxxQTa

🧵 #southasianhistory #secondworldwar #ww2

Fredric Jameson produced some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To celebrate what would have been his 91st birthday, we're offering up to 40% off his titles.

This was such an important doc but also one that highlighted the fact how unwilling some are in the UK to confront the fact that colonialism was a violent system of oppression that continues to reverberate…

Great to hear Amitav Ghosh introduce his new book, Wild Fiction in a wide ranging conversation with Pankaj Mishra #books

There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing. Deadline: 10 April More info here: ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

As Abdulrazak Gurnah‘s latest, Theft, has just been published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, I’m resharing this excellent in conversation, This Cultural Life from 2022 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Me and countless other authors today…😂

The Curriculum and Assessment Review in England released interim findings this week - and sparked debate about the future of EBacc at GCSE. Dr Lynton Lees sets out why EBacc matters and the dangers of pitting subjects against each other:

Weekend Reading - excited to start Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest - Theft

Retrograde at the Apollo theatre 🎭 is a must see- a stunning play about Sidney Poitier, moral choices, Hollywood and principles. A play that I loved at the Kiln theatre that has now even more urgency. Powerful central performances and exquisite direction by Amit Sharma

Happy Holi - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2r...

While it might now be well known that the International Women's Day was instituted at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen in 1910, it is little known that the Paris-based Indian revolutionary Madame Cama also attended the congress. As one Danish newspaper reported:

Job Claxon 📢

We all know who the judges are and how the judging works on Strictly but do you know how the Olivier awards work? Alongside my thoughts on the runners and riders, let me explain. www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/oliv...

Thank you to everyone who has joined us for User Experience workshops and surveys across February. This was truly enriching and so helpful for us as a team. We are working hard on implementing the recommendation. Keep your eyes peeled for the launch of the digital resource in summer 2025.

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Thank you all who contributed to our user experience workshops in February. Your suggestions have been most helpful. Keep your eyes open for more updates in the coming months. The Resource, South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories launches in July. project.southasianbritain.org/digital-reso...

Our project team member @flostadt.bsky.social recently contributed to the project partner @britishlibrary.bsky.social Discovering Literature Learning Resources. To Find out more context on @tanikagupta.bsky.social's seminal play The Empress, visit padlet.com/discovering_...

Well Manchester you did not disappoint- if you get the chance make your way over to IWM North to visit the wonderful Chila Kumari Singh Burman exhibition.

A long list to get excited about - looking forward to reading!!!!

Auf geht’s Deutschland- Heute geht es um Alles, wofür wir einstehen, dass wir aus unseren dunkelsten Kapiteln gelernt haben - geht wählen, wählt demokratische Parteien und lasst die neo-Faschisten mit bürgerlichen Anstrich außen vor 🗳️ Zeit Farbe zu bekennen und Zeichen zu setzen

I’d say go for the double bill - pre-order your 25% off new release @waterstones.bsky.social and then top up with @betarish.bsky.social latest to get your free delivery - bosh

My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

Light of Passage is a stunning beautiful piece of dance - words can’t capture how much it moved me…

Come join us this evening @maxminervas.bsky.social

Preparing to delete our Xitter account -- need to preserve some old 🧵s! Here's one about the bizarre connection between the "Sudden" novels--a series of pulp westerns--and the pop culture of Mizoram in Northeast India.

giving this event another shout out - happening [email protected] join me on Thursday, 20 Feb for this in conversation with Santanu Bhattacharya to talk about his latest novel Deviants published by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

We have compiled a wide ranging list of resources with holdings across the uk to research British South Asian histories - have a look via the link below and give us a follow; more news 📰 coming up as we hear up to the launch of our digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories

A key part of ‘Remaking Britain’ is archival research, which involves locating materials on British South Asian histories across the UK. Our website has a list of archives that you can visit to learn more about your local South Asian histories: project.southasianbritain.org/archives/ #history

Join us at Manchester Central Library on Wednesday 26 February 2025 from 1:30-3pm to explore a pilot version of ‘South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories’, an educational website on the history of South Asians in Britain. Please sign up via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia...

Join us online on Monday 24 February 2025 from 12:00-1:15pm to explore a pilot version of ‘South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories’, an educational website on the history of South Asians in Britain. Please sign up using the Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia...