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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

reading wisdom, getting wise 😁🤓😋 #TBR

Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947 🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Bullhe Shah // Bhagat Singh // Faiz Ahmed Faiz #ReadingInquilab 📖+✊🏽=🔥

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📚 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/...

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An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory - Course

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.” ~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930 🙄😒😞😶

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#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...

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#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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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

“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

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

South Asian Literature(s) #TBR 🤓 🤤 😋 🤗

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“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.” 🤓😋🤗

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

brought home such a great haul of books from Sahitya Akademi book fair today 🤓😋🤗

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

These are the books that publishers have offered for free this week, November 29-December 5. For a more extensive reading list, please visit, 🔗 librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and... 📖+🍉=❤️ #read #palestine

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Readings and Resources – Librarians and Archivists with Palestine

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 - December 5). 🔗 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f... 📖+🍉=♥️ #read #palestine

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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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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A starter pack of/for folks (academics, researchers, students, authors, activists etc.) working on Caste, Kinship and Ethnicity within critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Comment or DM with bio to be added or to suggest others. 🔗 go.bsky.app/A5Rb8tm

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A starter pack of/for folks (academics, researchers, students, authors, journals etc.) working on Urdu, Persian & Arabic languages and literatures, as interconnected/overlapping literary traditions as well as distinct in their own right. Comment/DM to be added or suggest. 🔗 go.bsky.app/2Y9dnAZ

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list. go.bsky.app/To2zEEL

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Aliya @aliyanazki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On Faiz’s anniversary, this audio story from a year ago. youtu.be/1kSpjzgwe0c?...

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz: The love that turned him into a lover - BBC URDU

YouTube video by BBC News اردو

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

go.bsky.app/AyUppoV

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, students, writers, activists, organizations etc. whose work focuses on colonialism(s), and responses to/aftermath of, within critical, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. To be added or to suggest others, comment or DM. go.bsky.app/MK34WCH

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🎈🥳Join Pavan Kumar Malreddy to celebrate the book launch of his publication “Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” including a symposium with prominent speakers organised by the research initiative ConTrust. Participation via Zoom possible!

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This map is genuinely terrifying to me.

A map of Delhi air quality readings, with most numbers ranging from around 1000 all the way up to 2045.

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, archaeologists, archivists, students, heritage enthusiats, libraries, presses etc. whose work focuses on the ‘Histories’ of South Asia. To be added, removed, or to suggest others, comment or message, @keshavbansal.bsky.social 🔗 go.bsky.app/UEFyL7m

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Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, writers, translators, students, libraries, presses etc. whose work focuses on the languages and literatures of South Asia. To be added, removed, or suggest others, comment or message, @keshavbansal.bsky.social 🔗 go.bsky.app/PXuKt2L

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies. Please help us build this list. Suggestions very welcome. go.bsky.app/xCeFhi

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