Keshav Bansal (he/him)
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947 🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽
Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗
📚 An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory 🎓 Prof. Sreenath V.S, IIT Madras 🗓️ Mon, Jul 21 - Fri, Sep 12 2025 🔗 onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs132/...
An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory - Course
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Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️
“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.” ~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930 🙄😒😞😶
#thekashmirsyllabus A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir. Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art. Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#thekashmirsyllabus
#thekashmirsyllabus Revised February 4, 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION #TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirat...
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I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥
It was not witches who burned. It was women. Women who were seen as Too beautiful Too outspoken Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously) Too loud Too quiet Women who danced, Women who sang or anything else, really. It was not witches who burned. It was women. — Fia Forsström #Holika
On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, offers Online Basic Courses in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, and Punjabi. Duration: 12 Weeks Credit Point: 4
Keshav Bansal (he/him)@keshavbansal.bsky.social · 2y ago
There was a time... I read 80-100 books a year but academia has killed the joy (understandable) and attention span (weird).. So, I'm slowly nursing my mind into reading for the language, the sentence; for the story, the pleasure. #ReadingGoals2025
“It is one of the legacies of colonialism that the economic relations among developing countries are far less developed than the economic links between developing and developed countries.” — Manmohan Singh, 1972
“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: The books I read — I like to buy.” 🤓😋🤗
brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗
