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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Last chance to late pledge! We'll be turning this campaign off at EOD -- this book is at the printers & copies will get mailed out in a couple of weeks. You can also donate copies to the @freelibsnet.bsky.social . www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... After that, pre-order from our site!

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Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction - by Blaft Publications

An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Bangalore shows :) At Odds With Even Love - Queer Stories and Traditional Songs Abhinaya - dance and music, innate reciprocity between sound and body. #bangalore #blrhubba #wipaltfest #dance #music

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University SEMINAR SERIES 📋 The Archive is Dead, Long Live the Archive; Hindi Archives, and the History of Writing 🗓️ December 4, 3pm IST 📍Room no. 326, CHS JNU, Delhi #SouthAsia #Languages #Histories #Hindi #Writing #Archive

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

'At Odds With Even Love' comes to Bangalore Book your spot! 5th a d 6th Dec Alliance Française and Bangalore International Center. An evening of queer stories and amorous poem-songs from the Indian subcontinent. We also write letters to our beloveds! #Bangalore #performance #queer #loveletters

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A moving essay by Dr. Omar Kasmani! As he quotes, "dil aise shahr ke pāmāl ho jaane kā manzar bhūlne meñ/ abhī kuchh din lageñge"

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Re-upping this as there have been more and more ethnomusicologists joining BlueSky. Please let me know if you want to be added to the list / think of anyone who should be on this list. :)

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The Diwan e Muhandis was written by Ustad Ahmad's son Lutfullah Muhandis and in one verse describes his father as the architect of #TajMahal and #RedFort "These two represent only one aspect of his many sided genius, And constitute just one pearl from his mine of pearls"

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

As we ramp out to 2025, good to hear this (in re: University and our task)

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Angela Davis & Herbert Marcuse at UC Berkeley (1969) Full Audio

YouTube video by AfroMarxist

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created a starter pack of South Asian artists, authors, academics, activists, and orgs. I’ll keep it updated—DM me or reply if you or someone you know should be added! ✨" go.bsky.app/GGd6dxU

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Dylan @dylanstuart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A reminder, if you work on ethnomusicology and related fields and want to be added to this stater pack please comment or dm :) #ethnomusicology

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇 I am Bala. "If you stopped stammering, you could make something out of your life!" "Stop sobbing, you're 14"

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As I lay sick this week at home, I am busy with maestro ilayaraja! I saw this ad and recognized the music from Ilayaraja’s BGM from the Tamil movie Veedu (1988). all home themed! What a smart repurposing! It’s also featured as ‘Do Anything’ in Ilayaraja’s album #howtonameit #ilayaraja #veedu #tamil

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Created a starter pack for Ethnomusicology studies. Please let me know if you want to add to the list. go.bsky.app/9c1wupA #Ethnomusicology #CrossCulturalmusicology #Culturalmusicology #Musicstudies #Starterpack

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Is there already a starter pack for ethnomusicology? #ethnomusicology

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So excited for @kunalpurohit.bsky.social to be presenting at the colloquium series at the Center for South Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz. @ucsantacruz.bsky.social

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The cold is Colding, though i think the worst is behind me. Not me looking up rando websites! I'm on stage three! Also as I grow older it takes me longer to recover! 10s< 20s< 30s

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How would you translate 'saayal' from tamil meaning - form/ features/ shadow/ likeness/ resemblance In the context of 'அவள் சாயல்' (her features)? #tamil #translation #poetry

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Excerpt (of an excerpt)... Glad to be out of grad student existential dread (post-candidacy/ pre-fieldwork) and translated excerpts of five Telugu padams into English for a friend's paper this morning. Some lines are poruttam(just right) while I sleep over the others. #translation #telugu #poetry

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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 15/11/2024

For anyone who needs to hear it, be confident. You're good at what you do. It took me too long to realize how strong a chemist I am. Many students passed through my courses, especially #womeninstem, lacking confidence in themselves. #STEM can be full of hurdles and adversity, but you can do it. 🧪🥽👩‍🔬

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · 14/11/2024

Please welcome: 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕥, out now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. "Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." - Bandcamp "Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"BIRTHPLACE WITH BURIED STONES" – Meena Alexander I first came across this poem as an opening to one of my advisors' essays on the social text. I've been moved since. #poetry #MeenaAlexander

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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello! I am Bala. I am a musician and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Music Department at UC Santa Cruz. I work on the oral traditions of music across the Indian subcontinent, with an emphasis on the politics of aesthetics, sacred songs, South Asian performing traditions, caste, gender, and sexuality.

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