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article-14.com @article-14.com · 26/09/2026

“They were looking at all things so suspiciously, as if we were criminals” Mumbai police searched books, diaries, posters & other material after kites with #Palestinian flags were flown, Harshada Borade of IPSP told Swati A K youtu.be/qmX1dz4ei3c

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‘We Have Not Committed A Crime By Flying A Kite’ | Article14

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Dheeraj DeeKay @meetdheeraj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TIL according to Delhi Master plan Akshardham temple and CWG village both are built on Yamuna Floodplain. Yes, those who are going to temple are celebrating destruction of a river and also responsible for why Delhi floods because you've taken up the land where river is supposed to flow on.

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Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Grateful for this deeply thoughtful, kind review of my book. 'Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy shakes the foundations of scholarship on Indian diplomacy in multiple ways. It establishes the transhistorical centrality of caste in India’s diplomatic engagements' indiasworld.in/coolie-migra...

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Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914–67, By Kalathmika Natarajan | India's World

The book under review introduces us to a whole new world of Indian diplomacy. It brings into focus a range of new diplomatic actors, sites, and negotiating ...

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Equality Labs @equalitylabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ The Poona Pact was a crucial moment in the history of Dalit political representation in India. At its centre was a fundamental question: how could an oppressed community secure meaningful and independent representation within the political system? The immediate context was

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As I pointed out yesterday, communications have been severed across much of Tigray. The UN and HRW were for now, able to contact sources and obtain data for their reports, but things will become much more difficult going forward. There is great reason to be afraid for civilians.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

RE: AIRSTRIKES Two reports highlighting aerial crimes vis a vis the new conflict in Ethiopia were published today. First, @hrw.org looked at visual evidence into the Aug 20th Ethiopian airstrike that injured a dozen civilians in the city of Mekele and found no valid military targets.

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Ethiopia: Indiscriminate Airstrike in Tigray

An apparent Ethiopian government airstrike on a residential compound in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on August 20, 2026, should be investigated as a possible war crime, Human Rights Watch said to...

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sabri calls for "a reintegration of disciplines in a Hellenistic style." "I’m not making a superficial case for ‘interdisciplinarity’. Instead, I’m arguing for something more specific: the recovery of the penchants of polymathy that once thrived in the Muslim world." YES, PLEASE! 👏

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Scroll @scroll.in · 26/09/2026

“In a democracy, voters choose their representatives. In India, the representative is choosing their voters,” a protester said at Jantar Mantar, where demonstrators demanded the arrest and resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. Several protesters, including AISA chief Neha Bora, were detained.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's nice using exclamation marks when you're actually feeling enthusiastic and not just to ameliorate resting bitch email tone, no? (Because we are back to the dark ages of needing to email friends since fucking bluesky is american liberal central, twitter is naziland and mastodon is dead.)

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'Swimming in the noise', Gaurav's proposed film, is set in Mumbai and South Maharashtra, where threatened Indian Ocean humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific finless porpoises survive in increasingly polluted, noisy and shrinking coastal habitats.

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Save Our Seas Foundation is thrilled to announce that our inaugural Ocean Storytelling Film Grant has been awarded to Gaurav Patil for a film project that will tell a story of deep conservation urgency and impact.

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The winner of the Ocean Storytelling Film Grant is announced!

The inaugural Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) Ocean Storytelling Film Grant (OSTG) has been awarded to a film project that will tell a story of deep conservation urgency. By providing funding and ment...

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The government of India let the last Israeli war criminal the Foundation pointed out to them walk, they'll let this one walk too. The regime supports Israel wholeheartedly, one genocidal fascist ethnostate to another.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Israel created a think tank called the “Hanover Institute for Public Policy” to influence chatbots to shape the discourse according to Israeli propaganda. In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 reports on issues of Palestine. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices' While Adani gets off US charges w/ a $10bn bribe.

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 05/08/2026

Who was on trial? India’s leading women wrestlers or #BrijBhushanSharanSingh? The wrestlers fought for an FIR, protested on the streets, testified in court & relived their trauma under cross-examination. Yet it often seemed as though they were in the dock Subscribe to read: article-14.com

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every couple of weeks I poke my head back onto bluesky, try to catch up with people, am hit with a solid wall of US-related reposts, and then go away again. Sometimes I go over to twitter just to try to catch up with India discourse, but there I'm just hit by bots. I really miss Indian social media.

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Scroll @scroll.in · 05/08/2026

#AbhijeetDipke went against commonsensical, mainstream Ambedkarite politics by emphasising the need for demands that are not caste-based so that a wider range of people could be brought together. scroll.in/article/1094... He did not want to be limited to a Dalit leader. By Sumit Samos

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...

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Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection

A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation

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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

From Goa’s trance scene to festivals near Gaza, this essay examines how Israeli rave culture has borrowed Hindu imagery and Indian spaces while offering escape from occupation. A provocative look at culture, denial and the politics of looking away. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

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Israel’s Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of its Victims

For decades, a combination of EDM and drug culture have helped to numb the horror of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 31/07/2026

Films advancing majoritarian politics, historical distortions & govt narratives are repeatedly rewarded at the National Film Awards these days. Latest example: 3 awards to the propaganda film Article 370 announced this month, writes Anna M M Vetticad article-14.com/post/how-the...

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How The National Film Awards Became A Showcase For The Modi Era’s Favourite Narratives

The honours for Article 370, a Hindi film aligned with the Hindutva project, are the latest evidence of a decline years in the making: an awards system willing to recognise propaganda, historical dist...

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

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Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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आंदोलनजीवी सपना सामंत. Dr. Sapna Samant ✊🏾🍉 @drsapna.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here is a warning from those on the ground and sceptical of the Jantar Mantar protest. Muslims please do not go for the march today. You will be arrested and charged under terrorism laws. UAPA. No one will stand for you. Sending love.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Shane Hollander, talking about Ilya Rozanov, probably

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 20/06/2026

Mona Khalil, one of Lebanon's leading conservationists has died following an Israeli attack on her home, she had dedicated her life to protecting the country's turtles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

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👻 Viv 💀 @v.milcom.in · 21/06/2026

Babe what's wrong? You haven't dismissed the notifications on your phone.

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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hello #IndiaSky. I’m trying to find out whether public parks around India close in the afternoons. (In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, they close between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.) What is it like in your town?

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I vote that smut authors make vigific a thing for describing cock, and also that we immediately plunge into a debate of how it is pronounced ala gif

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Does shaming people for pirating something ever work? Like, has anyone ever had that conversation with someone and seen them change?

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I am disappointed but unsurprised to see a sexual harasser in the table of contents.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A superb queer zine - highly recommended for anyone interested in queer studies and oppression. Across the Nala: A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi. I was lucky enough to receive it from Dr Dhiren Borisa!

Across the Nala : A queer Dalit Bahujan zine of stories from Delhi. Cover.

Across the Nala
A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Dhiren Borisa
Associate Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
ILLUSTRATOR
Rishabh Arora
COLLABORATORS
Dhrubo Jyoti
Prateek Draik
Project Mukti
FUNDING SUPPORT
Urban Studies Foundation
Knowledge Mobilisation Award
Urban Studies
FOUNDATION

Illustration of where is home when queer event happen in areas of affluence

In the shadows and shimmer of Delhis streets, our stories-Dalit, Bahujan, Queer-rise not for permission, but as a declaration: we were always here, desiring, dreaming, and daring to belong.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Urban Studies Foundation
Knowledge Mobilisation Award

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

These are familiar points to anyone who has been in the cultural appropriation trenches, but specifically the claiming of the past while sneering at the present peoples is what Orientalists tried to do with the Aryans vs dirty Hindoos and Mohamedans.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Few things fill me with as much white hot jealousy as hearing people talking behind someone's back about how worried they are about that someone and how to help them. Some people are so loved and cared for.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I never forget that this asshole is a genocider, but I do sometimes forget the duration of time he has been permitted to be a pathetic loser. Journalists really need to find stronger words to make fun of him. Humiliate him.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Bit disappointed that Arunava Sinha doesn't treat the main point of genAI writing as being plagiarism. "Is the machine creative" is a question also asked of the mechanised loom.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This is a country where people are lynched regularly for transporting meat, 'smuggling' cows, eating meat, while exporting massive amounts of beef to other countries.

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Katharine Ainger @katainger.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Are we already at Ministry of the Future chapter one? “India is being left to die in the heat”, some important and justifiably angry writing by @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social aje.news/plufhf

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India is being left to die in the heat

Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

anyway i'm hot, exhausted and find myself utterly unable to do any of the many many things that need to be done, so. how was your weekend

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis for decades. Internal documents reveal how this denial has shaped — and constrained — policymaking. Story of the long overdue update of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) drilled.media/news/air-pol...

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Denial and Misinformation: How Politics Weakens India's Air Pollution Response

Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis in the country for decades. Documents related to an update of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) show how the de...

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Male loneliness epidemic but make it about genocidal colonials

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In a Lady Catherine voice: my witty banter skillz would have been legendary if I had found any family

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"A mother who is turned away at a school admission counter, or who makes four trips to a government office to complete paperwork that should have taken one, does not file a report. She absorbs the cost—in time, in money and in dignity."

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