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In Saudi Arabia’s scaled-down plans for megacity across the desert – a warning sign for the future scroll.in/article/106750… via Scroll.in

Karama: An Immigrant Neighborhood Transformed jadaliyya.com/Details/42250 via Jadaliyya

Book Excerpt: Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright maidaanam.com/book-excerpt-b…

Can ancient tunnels cool 21st-century heat in summer? aje.io/s19y3e via Al Jazeera English

My book “Disrupting the patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco” was named a 2024 CSU Warner College outstanding publication! Honored for the recognition. Read the book open access here👉 ucpress.edu/book/978052039…. University of California Press

Indian Gulf workers: The unlikely voters parties are wooing for elections aje.io/50qy5b via Al Jazeera English

An Irish immigrant in Brooklyn moved to Aleppey in the 1850s and helped modernise the coir industry. My latest for Onmanorama

onmanorama.com/lifestyle/kera…

It's happening!! #AAG2024
Join us for a series of panels on Global Development, Speculative Urbanism and Infrastructure. Wonderful presenters with research from all over the world! Engaging with queer geographies, caste+infra+capital and more, exciting conversations ahead :D

In my childhood there was a lot of talk of treasure. Buried by rich families who had fled dire circumstances, treasure stashes were thought to be cursed and guarded by venomous snakes.

I write on the treasure that was the Gulf in Kerala scroll.in/article/106410…

“Kappiri” shrines in the coastal regions of Kerala and the local legends surrounding their worship can give us fresh insight into Indian Ocean slave trade and the lesser-known aspects of Portuguese colonialism in Kerala.
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What can Southasian scholars gain from Indian Ocean studies?

These recent books on the Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at the Subcontinent’s pasts. mailchi.mp/himalmag/south… KRamnath Nienke Boer Darshana M. Baruah Pan Macmillan India Yale Univ Press University of Texas Press Duke University Press

Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi aljazeera.com/features/longf…

Despite the many controversies surrounding the novel Aadujeevitham (which we have detailed here), Benyamin's book remains a compelling and necessary piece of literature. Read to know why.
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Palayoor Church, Manipur violence, attacks on Christians – all of these are on the minds of voters in Thrissur. Will the BJP's 'Christian outreach' work? Read my ground report.

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Our new project looks at how we encounter the law in the various spaces we occupy- at the traffic signal, on product packaging, during elections. It aims build legal literacy in India through interactive storytelling, games and workshops. Soon in Hindi, Kannada and Marathi

Sad that the NCERT is pushing a blatant falsehood.

Genetic research has confirmed linguistic and archeological evidence of a sudden influx of Sanskrit-speaking Indo-Aryans into India -- and that they were NOT the same as the pre-existing Harappans.

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Thrilled that 'Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire' has been adjudged as the winner of the The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities by AIIS
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#NewWork They couldn’t bring children to the mines, so they brought mines to children!

Sharing five-month-long investigation into Rajasthan’s mining industry for The Guardian Long Read

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My new encyclopedia entry on #debt 👇 explores its connection to reciprocity, violence, class and gender.

anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/debt

Free to access thanks to the brilliant team at Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. 🙏