Leila Essa

Fascism in India — Harvard University Press A revisionist account arguing that Indian nationalism served as a laboratory for fascist ideas that continue to animate the Hindutva political movement of today.Fascism swept the world in the 1920s an...

Happy publication day to one of my dearest friends!! Luna Sabastian’s ’Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva’ is out now, a truly extraordinary book. I’m so glad I got to witness the entire journey - including actual joint research trips to Berlin and Delhi! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva by Luna Sabastian Historian Sabastian debuts with an astute intellectual history of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement, that focuses on how ...

Dipesh Chakrabarty loves it, @mithu.bsky.social loves it, Faisal Devji loves it, Publishers Weekly has already reviewed it (and loves it): www.publishersweekly.com/9780674299436

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

Fascism in India — Harvard University Press A revisionist account arguing that Indian nationalism served as a laboratory for fascist ideas that continue to animate the Hindutva political movement of today.Fascism swept the world in the 1920s an...

Happy publication day to one of my dearest friends!! Luna Sabastian’s ’Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva’ is out now, a truly extraordinary book. I’m so glad I got to witness the entire journey - including actual joint research trips to Berlin and Delhi! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today, university staff and students in the Netherlands are on strike! We protest against continuing budget cuts of over 1bn euros by a cabinet that has been voted out of power over a month ago.

Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective life.In Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life, Aleksandr Prigozhin explo...

… 2. Aleksandr Prighozin’s ‘Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life’ press.jhu.edu/books/title/... !! Two really beautifully written books by two stellar people

Mad Fictions | Home Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature

Huge joy getting to see two dear colleagues launch their books tonight! Get your hands (and university library orders) on 1. Femi Eromosele’s ‘Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature’ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... and on…

who's to say - thankfully not me 😌🙏

ahahah had just seen that

much would be won if no one talked about Germany anymore imo

can hardly imagine anything more tedious than the discussions about whether the most recent discussions about whether Germany is fucked have been very good or very bad

The first of several copies I’ll be gifting in Cairo to those who generously shared stories with me over several years that made this book possible.

How lovely :)) this also further affirms that I urgently need to get ahold of your book!!

Aaaah the first record store I stop by on every visit 💗

YouTube video by Dig! The Proclaimers - Throw The 'R' Away (Official Video)

According to advanced algorithm (my brain) I think this really has been the song of the year for me. Impossible to be in a bad mood when listening to - or better yet: watching - them m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tff...

one small lesson to take away from the crumbling HE sector, btw, is that there is no such thing as meritocracy here and the only thing that matters is doing work that is meaningful to you and the people you care about and to make friends and collaborators in the process

Mit seinem Besuch bei Benjamin Netanyahu schreibt Friedrich Merz Geschichte: Erstmals seit Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland trifft sich ein Bundeskanzler mit einer Person, die vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag wegen mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrechen per Haftbefehl gesucht wird.

Kim Hyesoon in Dutch, translated by the wonderful brilliant generous @marwinvos.bsky.social in @groene.nl . KHS will be visiting NL in January, with various programs at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Writers Unlimited Festival & Perdu 💫

I would say just close them today and never look back

The white and silver wonky Gehry buildings in Düsseldorf

The Gehry buildings in my hometown bring me joy whenever I see them

I’m so so tired but also pretty proud to see the new course working out as I’d hoped

2 more weeks of 12-hour teaching

Dismayed that Steely Dan has not made it into my top artists but delighted with all of my songs of the month 🏆

what's the best thing I can read to understand the whole deal with medieval allegory?

Denmark is dismantling it’s letterboxes because the post there will no longer be responsible for sending letters as of 2026 😭

Amazing, is this what it feels like to be an influencer

Reading my way through the collection atm, it’s so so good!

the one lasting impact of One Battle After Another is that it’s turned me into a Steely Dan guy

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waaaah what an honour 🥹!!!! this also made me realise that Utrecht University already has full digital access to the book - shall still order a physical copy to the library though ❤️