row the boat

received @esmat.bsky.social’s book in the mail on its launch day, and could not be more excited. there has been no other book i have been suggested over and over again to sharpen and aid my own thinking (also got my uni to buy an e-copy!) 🍉

My remembrance of my teacher, C.M. Naim

bringing together south asian diasporas, their funding of hindutva with the racial politics and carceral systems of the american south, expulsion of asians in uganda and women's sexuality.. it is almost as if it is only now that I am understanding why the movie is such a masterpiece!

Mississippi Masala asks: What might it mean to forge a politics explicitly based on an investment in the places where we are, rather than in an imagined ideal of the places from which we came?

"Indians at points created a strategic alliance with white supremacy. Indian migration is also a longer history of the dispossession of Black and Indigenous people, which made possible the massive wealth amassed by Indian diasporic communities in North America."

"Police, policing, and cruel authoritarianism link Uganda and the United States; the paramilitary forces of the former parallel the oppressive local police in racist Mississippi.. Southern police govern everyday relationships in an ever racially divided landscape."

one of my fav reads this month! highlighted more or less the entire piece:
"She [Mina] is full of possibility and promise, a total inversion of any vision of women’s sexuality as dangerous to the enforced Hindu patriarchal order"

so excited for this!!!

Why did they kill Gauri Lankesh? IN A LAND where the majority is quick to take offence, and “hurting religious sentiments” is a crime, any transgression can be deadly. The food we eat, the clot

"Gauri Lankesh was blunt in her critique, roundly denouncing the Hinduism espoused by once-fringe Hindu extremist groups that were rapidly taking centre stage and whipping up hate on social media."

Laxmi Murthy writes:

Nearly a decade on from beginning the PhD, we have a book cover!

Out later this year - my book exploring caste, migration and indenture as foundational to Indian diplomacy. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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