Before beginning your year you need to process last year. You also need to catch up on fabulous cultural products (books, films, art) which you might have missed. @mukulika.bsky.social and @pragyatiwari.bsky.social help you do this through this episode of ‘The India Briefing’ Listen up!

Most excited to present the latest episode of The India Briefing. We speak with @amitvarma.bsky.social and Milan Vaishnav on ideas and observations that have helped them make sense of Indian politics and economics. open.spotify.com/episode/65vLw1… @mukulika.bsky.social

2024 gave us #TheIndiaBriefing and in this end of year episode @mukulika.bsky.social and I talk about the news events that defined the year for us. We also share a long list of recommendations for books, film and art. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0AVP...

As women become a vote bloc in 🇮🇳, @pragyatiwari.bsky.social discusses how political parties are wooing them with cash & the longer-term issues this raises for the state. #TheIndiaBriefing blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...

Delighted and grateful for this shoutout from one the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to the study of contemporary India. #TheIndiaBriefing @mukulika.bsky.social

For the first time in my adult life I can say this - I read enough this year, averaging a book and a half a week. Here’s a list of 20 from ‘24. www.instagram.com/p/DDqzj6fyn7...

‘Crazy ideology’: US companies drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure mounts https://www.ft.com/content/e0064038-38cc-45e0-bf55-89f9d2f76f89

Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.

TOMORROW at #ASP23: Paolina Massidda - Principal Counsel of the Office of the Public Counsel for Victims at the International Criminal Court will join Phillipe Larochelle, @avisingh.bsky.social , and others to discuss holding Azerbaijan accountable for its crimes against Armenians.

On this day, the 6th of December, two poems by Gieve Patel. On Killing a Tree (written perhaps in a different context, but to my mind befitting also of this day) and The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India.

In Trump’s America, for Trump’s America, a fund linking culture wars and the markets. An anti-woke ETF will exclude S&P 500 that incorporate diversity, equity and inclusivity into their hiring process. www.ft.com/content/f19c...

My Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024. Not yours or anybody else's (unless they happen to agree with me.) geneseymour.com?p=3931&fbcli...

A shoutout to #TheIndiaBriefing on India's best newsletter, The India Cable from the editors of @thewire.bsky.social Have you heard our podcast yet? open.spotify.com/episode/7mAq... @mukulika.bsky.social

Two excellent books on my part of the world. @iramukhoty.bsky.social ‘s gripping history of the Nawabs of Awadh. Cannot recommend it enough. and Francesca Orsini’s East of Delhi, on the interplay of of languages and dialects and the emergence of literature in and around Awadh.

The "rule of law" is not always a tool for justice. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." J. Learned Hand www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

Dec 2/3 is the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, at US-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. In Sept, I spoke with Indira Jaising, former solicitor general of India, in Bangkok, at UNDP's business and human rights forum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALU...

Excellent episode of the Seen and the Unseen by Amit Varma with @waatcoconut.bsky.social . Perfect appetiser to his brilliant new book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries : The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity. seenunseen.in/episodes/202...

I spoke with Joya Chatterji earlier this year at the Jaipur Literature Festival on her brilliant book Shadows at Noon : The South Asian 20th Century. Delighted at its win. youtu.be/bPmU6Z2ySS0?...

On this episode of #TheIndiaBriefing @govindraj.bsky.social helps @mukulika.bsky.social and me make sense of how the US indictment of Gautam Adani impacts the Adani group, and the Indian markets and economy. Listen here or on Apple Podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/3Kwg...

Are you India Curious but have no time to digest India's complexity? If so the podcast #TheIndiaBriefing is for you. @pragyatiwari.bsky.social and I bring you fact-checked analysis of India's biggest stories. Available for free on most platforms. Please subscribe! open.spotify.com/episode/57IW...