Gaurav Kalyani

Debugging Inequality: Caste and Labour Hierarchies in Indian Gaming Industry | The Ambedkarian Chronicle The author reflects on their own experiences in the industry, the narratives they came across and how caste does in fact shape the process of game development.

Important piece regarding Indian gaming industry. Hope this adds more nuance in south asian games studies discourse.

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Last few years have effectively killed my spirit to pursue archaeology or any hope that I can be one. I wish I could just bomb the shit out of white and brahmin academia.

"Too political, for a country too unstable"

So Sony is promoting Ghost of Yotei on Mumbai metro as well😯
Literally the whole train was covered with promotional posters.

1/ Today marks the anniversary of Jyotiba Phule’s founding of the social reform society known as Satyashodhak Samaj, which began as a means of addressing caste and gender-based violence and discrimination by focusing on providing education and political access for women and Dalits 💙💛

Session will be guided by Tejas Harad & Rucha Satoor

Wednesday, 24 September
Time: 8.30 pm to 10 pm
Link: upenn.zoom.us/meetings/932...
Meeting ID: 932 5473 1039
Passcode: 1234

Hope to see you there!

We are honoured to have Prof. Christian Lee Novetzke (University of Washington), whose work explores memory, religion, and public life in South Asia, and Prof. V. Geetha (historian, feminist scholar, and founding editor of Tara Books), who has long been writing about caste, gender, and translation.

The event, which will be held on Zoom, will reflect upon what it means to remember, translate and carry the voices of contemporaries of the Satyashodhak movement into our present.

On the 152nd anniversary of the Satyashodhak Samaj, we warmly invite you to the launch of the English translation of Amhi Pahilele Phule, a text of remembrance that chronicles the lives and struggles of Jotirao and Savitribai Phule.

Poster announcing the book launch. It has the cover of original marathi book and details about the launch event. Date - 24 sept 2025. Time - 8.30 pm IST. Speakers - V.Geetha (historian) and Christian Lee Novetzke (historian). Event will be online, joining details in the accompanying post. Zoom Meeting ID: 932 54731039 Passcode: 1234

This is finally coming out! A collective translation of essays and memories written by Phule's contemporaries. Originally translated from Marathi. I've also contributed by translating one chapter in it. More details and joining link in the thread below.

Just read a reddit thread of people passionately sharing about how they have still saved the links of now obsolete and defunct torrenting sites that were once almost like thriving ports...the nostalgia!!

Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police For the better part of a year, we've watched (and reported) in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "AI psychosis," has until recently done little more than offer copy-pasted promises that the company is "working on […]

"Open"AI is scanning its users' chats and reporting them to the cops.

https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

No One Should Starve for Being Born Here My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza.  Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror.  I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...

My friend Eslam has had her account removed by bluesky moderation. This is not the first time. I want to tell you what she said happened to her, but first, i’d like you to see Eslam’s campaign, since she is apparently not allowed here to share it herself.

bit.ly/artist-eslam

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Eslam shared with me that bluesky moderation made what i think is a very significant request from her. They asked her for a picture of herself, with her passport, and gave her a code to write on a piece of paper for confirmation it was her. She did those things. I saw the picture she sent them.

800 fucking years! So many regime changes and shifts have taken place, yet they're still holding power here. How does this happen? If historians and archaeologist in India do not see any problem here then just fuck you I guess.

A history of deaths & burials that haunt Dharmasthala | LME on ground On July 31, 2025, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) uncovered partial human remains from a site near the Nethravathi river in Dharmasthala. This location was

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I wanted to write about this case but don't have time. But one thing I do want to say, at the centre of it all, the Heggade family, have had unbroken rule over this area for nearly 800 years.

Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel Please fill out the form below to add your name to this open letter calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal to cultural heritage organisations to ...

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...

Digging up the past: The Madurai community behind Keeladi’s big discoveries Velliamma stood under the scorching sun, inside a trench at the Keeladi excavation site in Madurai. She carefully brushed away centuries of dust from the ancien

Digging up the past: The Madurai community behind Keeladi’s big discoveries

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What are some latest developments in #archaeogaming?

Want to see/read some recently published research. Its been a while....

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

The commodification of tribal lives in India Across India, tribal regions are increasingly being opened up to exploitation in the name of tourism.

“By using tourism to legitimize the occupation of these scared sites of Adivasis, the state is convincingly erasing the region's indigenous histories and constructing new, local Hindu histories.”

And museums are playing big role in it.

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The Iron Age, written in iron Archaeological excavations in Tamil Nadu have revealed significant evidence of ancient civilisations, including the Sangam Era and Iron Age. Key sites like Keeladi, Sivagalai, and Adichanallur have be...

This is a nice visual and illustrated story!

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Keeladi | Excavating the past Keeladi excavation site in Tamil Nadu reveals ancient urban civilization, sparking political and cultural debates in India.

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Is It Wrong to Take Back What Was Stolen? The Game That Has People Talking YouTube video by HomeTeam History

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#Relooted #Archaeogaming

I'm so sick of these baman-bania archaeologists, historians and cultural heritage practitioners hoarding and controlling every knowledge production platform and funding opportunities and and have the audacity to talk about decolonization, heritage preservation and social justice.

Ugh the word salad🤮

Neil Brodie thinks “out loud” about archaeological views on the #illicittrade and unprovenanced artifacts. Citing examples of illegally excavated ancient arms and armor, he raises questions about archaeological practices surrounding the study and #publication of such objects.