Gaurav Kalyani
@archaeogk.bsky.social
Archaeology | Anti-caste | Pop Culture | Digital Humanities आगीतून फुफाट्यात 🔥🌈💥
I'm at that stage of life where I now have a contract to write an academic book (something I never thought would happen) and my family/relatives asking the dreaded question - so how much this book is going to make? and there's no satisfactory answer to that.
Witness what is happening in India! Unbelievable turn of events...
Historic things happening in India after a long while! 20 July 2026 will be remembered in history. Feeling tense
Sad to hear that Shereen Ratnagar passed away today. She was one of the few indian archaeologists who did not fall for the state hindutva agenda. She and another archaeologist Dhaneshwar Mandal wrote a scathing critique of controversial Ayodhya ASI excavations.
Absolutely devoured this marathi pulp fiction series called Fu Manchu during school days. Writer Baburao Arnalkar had many other series like Kala Pahad and Zunzar. He mostly wrote crime thrillers, murder mysteries and detective adventure stories. Though Fu Manchu series was my favourite!
Blaft Publications@blaft.bsky.social · 3mo agoOK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!
Just read a local news article about falling stones at Taj Mahal due to poor quality of conservation efforts, mostly given to private contractors rather than trained experts of ASI.
The govt built a propoganda institute but no regard for student's future. theprint.in/ground-repor...
ASI’s ghost campus in Noida— grand new Rs 289-cr facility, 15 students, no faculty
The sprawling new Noida campus of ASI’s storied Institute of Archaeology was supposed to be a monument to new India. Seven years on, there's barely anyone to use it.
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🚨🏺🩸🇱🇧 NEW: "Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon" by Nelly P. Abboud: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...
Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon
by Nelly P. Abboud On April 1, 2026, in the context of Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon and criminal targeting of the country’s civilian populations and heritage sites, the UNESCO c…
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Found this satirical browser game in Mumbai subreddit. Some redditor created it recently, after a metro pillar slab collapsed on the highway, killing one person. The name in Hindi means Metro...these days metro-in-dino.vercel.app
Metro... In Dino — The Game
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Tamil brahmi script found in Egypt! www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil...
Ancient Tamil footprints discovered in Egypt’s royal tombs
CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brah
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History ended in the 2000s. now this is History NG+
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7mo agoCould we get to the end of history already
Happy New year! Expect more of the same Enjoy the world you created
Archaeology sometimes seems to go out of its way to avoid difficult issues. In 2025 perhaps the most difficult was the ongoing human and ethical catastrophe caused by the actions of the Government of Israel in Gaza and the Occupied Territories, presented here as a timeline by Everyday Orientalism.
Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars on Palestine in 2025: An Archive
cover art and post: Katherine Blouin How are Antiquity scholars and organizations responding to Israel’s campaign of annihilation of Palestine’s past, present and future? What do archaeologists and…
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I very recently, had the opportunity to interact with Dr. Alexandra Dolea and learnt about the platform she's building with her colleagues. It is aimed to help early career researchers find work, opportunities, network and support. pastforwardhub.com
Home - PastForwardHub
Discover innovative approaches to sustainable careers in archaeology.
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This is an important initiative. Please donate and support, if you can. chuffed.org/project/1574...
Help Build a Feminist Adivasi Arts Housing Cooperative in India
This December, Kanav and Disha will be traveling to India to live in an Adivasi (original inhabitants of South Asia) community in Jharkhand. We’ll be staying with Jacinta Kerketta, our friend, teacher...
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Important piece regarding Indian gaming industry. Hope this adds more nuance in south asian games studies discourse. theambedkarianchronicle.in/debugging-in...
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.
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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.
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 💙💛
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!!
“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.”
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...
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"Open"AI is scanning its users' chats and reporting them to the cops. https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
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 […]
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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
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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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 (1/?)
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 ...
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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.
www.thenewsminute.com/videos/a-his... 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.
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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