Prachi Deshpande

Thanks :-)

Absolutely thrilled to read Rosalind O'Hanlon's review of Scripts of Power :-) scroll.in/article/1085...

Thank you @farinamir.bsky.social for a generous and perceptive review of Scripts of Power!

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My book *Scripts of Power* is now available on Kindle!
If you have been longing to read the book but haven't been able to procure the paperback, esp. outside India, now's your chance 🙂https://amzn.in/d/6gJULj4

What have these barbarians done to Hinduism and to our country!!! 💔😢

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Nice! 🙂 I had this whole series in college on cassette... There is also one in the afternoon ones with Mallikarjun Mansur and Shruti Sadolikar that I loved

What afternoon ragas and which artistes? (I often enjoy listening to bhimpalas at night)

I have got many such bags from friends, and always recieve them gratefully - currently making a hat for a friend from his late mom's wool. The Rippling Waves project is a big deal!

Seminar this Friday at the CSSSC, at Jadunath Bhavan, open to all

My sincere condolences, R.

Thanks, Carlos! :-)

Grateful for this detailed review of /Scripts of Power/ in the latest South Asian Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0266...

Thrilled to receive gorgeous new book by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the mail! For legal historians: I recommend ch.3 on the great Tagore will case. #SouthAsianHistory Congratulations, Mou!!

SAAG’s 2024 In Reading These reflections do not aim to present a neat list of 2024’s "best" books or "essential reads." Instead, they are fragments of what stayed with us; works that lingered and called us back.

Surprised and pleased to find //Scripts of Power// in this list! www.saaganthology.com/vol-2-issue-...

What is with all this anti-kothimbir-ism? What we really need is anti-shepu-ism. Down with dill!

Economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi passes away Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an exceptional economist and scholar, left a lasting impact on economic history and development theory.

Meeting Amiya Bagchi at the Centre in recent years went some way in mitigating the trauma of encountering his formidable book "Private Investment in India" as a clueless MA student in the Cap-Col class at CHS/JNU. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

In an earlier life, I blogged earnestly about knitting and other crafty things at desiknitter.wordpress.com. I still knit (not so earnestly) but now I record all the action at Ravelry, the big fibre crafts site, and occasionally post pics to @grass_hamlet on Insta/FB,

COP29: Why are developing countries so disappointed? | In Focus podcast by In Focus by The Hindu Nagraj Adve speaks to us about how we can understand the outcomes of COP29 with regard to carbon markets, and how we can assess the same in terms of progress on climate finance.

Nagraj Adve lucidly spells out the implications of the failed COP29 discussions and the climate challenges looming before us, particularly in India, in the "In Focus podcast" of the Hindu with G. Sampath. Listen!! megaphone.link/THGU9916067771

COP29: Why are developing countries so disappointed? | In Focus podcast In this episode, Nagraj Adve speaks to us about how we can understand the outcomes of COP29 with regard to carbon markets, and how we can assess the same in terms of progress on climate finance.

www.thehindu.com/podcast/cop2...

please listen to this detailed and illuminating interview with Nagraj Adve on the disappointing outcomes of COP29 for developing countries.

ChatGPT will probably write more effusive letters, true.

Modern South Asia Workshop

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia.

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The time of year when you upload letter after letter after reference letter for PhD applications, agonize about getting in enough superlatives and exclamation marks and every last detail that could help, and then wonder about the whole point of this process.

Huge thanks to the excellent Chitralekha Zutshi for choosing Ruling Devotion as a book of the year in #HistoryToday 🥰

India’s massive failure to control pesticide overuse in cardamom and its spice trade An investigation into cardamom cultivation in Kerala exposes how India is failing abjectly to regulate pesticide overuse and contamination in its spice production and trade

An investigation into cardamom cultivation in Kerala exposes how India is failing abjectly to regulate pesticide overuse and contamination in its spice production and trade.

By @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social
www.himalmag.com/politics/car...

Delhi malls are advertising their good AQI as an escape for Delhiites who’re struggling to breathe. What in the dystopia.

Dalit Kitchen: हम क्या खाते हैं, कोई नहीं जानता | Rahul Gandhi YouTube video by Rahul Gandhi

Sorry, Rahul Gandhi - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSO...

Do it!! His interaction with RG was quite smooth and multilingual!

Table Talk - YouTube Table Talk was a fortnightly chat, each time with a different guest, about some aspect of food, but not about recipes (though those may have popped up too), ...

You can see or listen to all episodes (barring a couple of off-the-record sessions) at youtube.com/playlist?lis...

One discussion I really wanted to have was about caste and food. But first issue was where to begin! In India,vwe are brilliant at finding different ways to discriminate!
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In lockdown, thanks to a Facebook group I run, I began to think about food and its intersections with every aspect of our lives. One result was a series of long public conversations on food, called Table Talk. (Link in replies.) It was too expensive to sustain, so I stopped at 20 episodes.

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