I will be in conversation about my new book, The Future That Was, with Professor Brandon Terry at Harvard Bookstore on March 30th at 7 pm www.harvard.com/event/durba-...

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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

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"

Durba Mitra@durba.bsky.social · last yr.

i wrote on the nuances of racial tension and the possibility of political coalition, with much resonance today, through Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-...

"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:

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

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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 t.co/bUTfpFncmk